Talk:Alek Skarlatos/GA1

GA review

Passed. Kimikel (talk) 01:48, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominator: CookieMonster755 (talk · contribs) 18:41, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Kimikel (talk · contribs) 02:07, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I will be reviewing this article as part of the October GAN backlog drive. I will be leaving my comments shortly. Kimikel (talk) 02:07, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I appreciate it. Let me know what I can do to help improve it for GA status. The article was recently revamped so I think it is in good shape to start the GA review process. I have not done a GA article since the one on Spencer Stone so I might be a little bit rusty. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 18:48, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a couple comments below; I will continue my review tomorrow. Overall, the article seems to be in pretty good shape already. Kimikel (talk) 00:57, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Broad

It seems odd how the article cuts off after he assumed office. Has nothing of note happened during his term yet?

I added new information under Oregon House of Representatives. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 09:21, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I also added some information in early life about his father and paternal grandfather. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 15:34, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 15:17 To Paris (2016) (ISBN 978-1610397339) > I feel this merits at least a brief mention in the article. Maybe in personal life or at the end of the section about the attack.

done under international recognition. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:13, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well-written

2015...

Anthony Sadler, and Spencer Stone, high school friends from Skarlatos' former home of Carmichael, California > this description is unnecessary since you already introduced them in the early life section.

Y removed. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 09:24, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

including a bombing at the night club Bataclan that killed 90 people > since this sentence is pretty long already, i think just leaving it at the 130 in Paris statement is sufficient. Also wikilink those attacks.

Y done. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 15:12, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

was killed in a police raid > was killed during a police raid

Y done. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 15:12, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

said the men "faced [off] with terror" > nitpicky but that's not really what he said, i would just stick with the second quote

Y done. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 15:13, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Politics

He ran again for Congress in 2020 and 2022. this statement is unsourced and also unnecessary since the next paragraphs are about that

I think you missed this one

Y removed. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 11:27, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2020 > merge these two paragraphs; the first one is too short to stand by itself

Y merged. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 09:26, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

congressional bid;[47] he was later> period instead of semicolon

Y done. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 09:27, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Skarlatos supports the possible... > again recommend merging with prior paragraph to avoid standalone sentence

Y merged. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:41, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stable and neutral

No issues for either criterion

Illustrated

All images properly tagged and beneficial to the article.

Verifiable

I don't know the answer to this, maybe you do: do ribbon racks need to be cited? If not, then it's fine as is; if so, a source would be needed for the whole thing. I would recommend one in any case.

I will update the ribbon racks to either cite existing references in the article or new references and will update here when done. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:42, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. If you can't find citations for a lot of the ribbons, you could always just eschew the rack in its entirety, then add it back after the GA review whenever you can find sources. Up to you Kimikel (talk) 02:12, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Y done. Ribbon racks updated with references. I did remove one for lack of available reference. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 11:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Citations are not necessary in the lead section.

Y done. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:50, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Numerous citations are missing crucial details (eg. 49, 19 are missing authors when one is listed in the article). Additionally, 55 is malformed. Take a look at these citations, as some were added 10+ years ago, and make sure they're correct and consistent.

Y ref. 19 and ref. 50 (formerly 49) fixed with authors. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:21, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Y ref. 56 (formerly 55) fixed. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:29, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spot check

22 > I don't see anything specifically about Stone getting slashed.

Y reference replaced with better source backing up sentence of Stone getting slashed. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:34, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

59: Verified
33: Verified
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alek_Skarlatos#cite_note-6 > The archived version does not say Castro Valley; it says Alameda County.

Y reference 66 moved to 7 to support Skarlatos' place of birth as Castro Valley. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:39, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

56 > verified

@CookieMonster755: All seems to be good with the body of the article. I did another sweep of the references and found more issues.

[1] "Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos...": only needs a language tag

Y cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 11:56, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[2] "Journal Officiel de la République Française": malformed. date is written in french, url is off in brackets, and i can't find any mention of Skarlatos in the what is linked.

Y I removed this citation as it did not provide on the page what was being presented in the sentence. Other refs support that material anyway. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 11:59, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[3] "Hoyle declares...": missing author.

Y added. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:01, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[4] "News-Review, CARISA CEGAVSKE": malformed author name, missing date

Y fixed. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:05, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[5] "A Greek American Hero...": missing author name

Y fixed. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:07, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[6] "Three Sacramento men...": missing author names

Y fixed.

[7]: missing author name; remove newspaper name from article title. also highly recommend using archived version [8] because the url currently sends the user to some weird virus website.

Y fixed. I used the WP:USURPURL because of the concern with being redirected to a virus website. cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:15, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to keep adding more; after this we should be good to go. Kimikel (talk) 00:50, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kimikel no worries. I want the article to pass with flying colors cookiemonster755 ^(talk) 12:15, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate all of your work on this article and for remaining amenable to my suggestions. I've given it a final glance and it looks good to go. Thank you and congratulations - Kimikel (talk) 01:47, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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