This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because it has failed at WP:GAC for the third time this year. Although many of the most recent reviewer arguments were for reasons not in keeping with policy (e.g., the reviewer knowledgeable on size policy and thought the article exceeded policy limitation), some arguments were of varying degrees of merit. With respect to size, the article is currently only half the length that is against policy at WP:FAC. Currently, according to this tool, the article is 30.2 KB of readable prose and 5350 words and WP:SIZE says articles much more than 6,000 to 10,000 words, which roughly corresponds to 30 to 50 KB of readable prose is a problem. Generally, much longer than 30 of 50 KB is perceived as over 60KB. So this article could be nearly twice as long and be a WP:FA. It certainly is far short of the length of Harry S. Truman or either of the Roosevelts for example. In truth, given my experience with WP:GAC, which is about as broad and deep as any on WP, I was quite surprised given the lack of merit of some of the arguments against this article that it was not given a hold at GAC. I am somewhat convince that the common dislike of Bonds may have spilled over into the evaluation of the quality of the article. However, I concede that that as the most active editor of the article, I may be too close to see very deep problems with the article. In short, I need more outside eyes on this article that I think of as very close to WP:WIAGA to help me see points of improvement.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Since I happened to be stopping by PR anyway, I thought I should come here and offer my thoughts.
This should be enough to get you started. The article has the potential to be a good article, but still has some rough patches in my opinion. Giants2008 (talk) 02:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
You say there is little merit in the length based complaint, it is about undue weight, not length, you have as much print about two seasons as you do the previous 10. Also, the 2008 section is out of date, and why does 2008 get its own section? He isn't even playing, doesn't make any sense when you think of it that way.
You throw in the easiest reference? What the hell is that? From the look of your page not only do you like to brag (no one is impressed btw) but this isn't your first attempt at bettering Wikipedia articles, how long does it take someone to learn? It seems to me that the way to improve articles is not to continually nominate the same article over and over again until it shoves it's way through but to actually take some time and try to understand why the article has failed.
Your comments about bias are apt, but it is plainly apparant that your own love for Barry Bonds has colored your ability to approach the process of this article with an objective viewpoint.
I told you that you wouldn't like it, and maybe I was a bit harsh, but I think there are some good pearls amongst the clutter of my thoughts. I just couldn't not comment, considering your astounding, and annoying level of self-importance.208.82.225.232 (talk) 08:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)