Talk:Kalle Rovanperä

GA Review

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Reviewer: Kosack (talk · contribs) 10:51, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Picking this one up, review coming asap. Kosack (talk) 10:51, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. Unnamelessness (talk) 12:35, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Initial review

Lede

• Place of birth should not be listed in the opening brackets, per MOS:BIRTHPLACE.

 Done.

• Unlink Finnish, as per WP:OVERLINK , nationalities should generally not be linked.

 Done.

• Add (WRC) after World Rally Championship to explain further uses of the acronym.

 Done.

• "Rovanperä won a couple of titles" language is a bit informal here. Perhaps just won two titles in...

 Done.

• "before made" > before making

 Done.

• Works driver redirects to Factory-backed, worth linking for the uninitiated.

 Done.

• I'd suggest removing the Colin McRae part from the lede, it's a litte too much info for here and go with "in 2022, he became the youngest..."

 Done.

Early life and background

• "former WRC driver", use the full title and link for WRC on the first mention here. You're basically starting afresh with links in the main body.

 Done.

• Link factory driver to Factory-backed.

 Done.

• Do we know what age he started rallying? It seems a bit strange to say he was exceptionally young but not state when.

Not exactly, so I re-write the sentence to make it more accurate.

• "participation into the professional" > in the professional

 Done.

• "commented on the young Rovanperä" > commented that a young...

 Done.

2015-2017

• No need to link Latvia, per WP:OVERLINK

 Done.

• Citroen > Citroën

 Done.

• Link WRC2 here when mentioned with the Skoda rather than further down.

 Done. I would also like to mention that there is an ongoing RM at Talk:World Rally Championship-2#Requested move 18 December 2022. Whether using the hyphen (i.e. WRC2 or WRC-2) depends on the result of the discussion, though I personally prefer WRC2.

• I think liter is the American spelling, this should probably be litre for a Finnish national?

 Done.

• "He won the first rally, with fastest at every stage", sentence doesn't make much sense in it's current form. Perhaps, He won the first rally, setting the fastest time on every stage?

 Done.

• "despite of power steering issue" > despite a power steering...

 Done.

• "Rovanperä to clinch" to is probably superfluous in this sentence.

 Done.

• "Rovanperä a special permission" same for a here.

 Done.

• The link to Finland seems a bit like an WP:EASTEREGG. If he competed in the Finnish Rally Championship, I'd just say that.

 Done.

• "every rally on podium" > on the podium

 Done.

• "Rovanperä made WRC" > made his WRC

 Done.

This is down to the 2018–19 section for now, just so you have something to work on. I'll get through the rest as soon as I can. Kosack (talk) 19:56, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

2018–2019: Steady improvement and WRC-2 Pro crown

• "Rovanperä joined the Škoda Motorsport", drop the

 Done.

• "Rovanperä retained with the team for the 2019 season", sentence is a bit jumbled. Either "Rovanpera was retained by the teamm..." Or "Rovanpera remained with the team..."

 Done.

• "three more rallies for the rest of the season" > ralies during the rest of...

 Done.

• What does SS9 stand for? Might be worth using the full term if it has one?

SS is short for special stage, and 9 is the stage number. Anyway, I rewrite the sentence.

2020–2021: Top tier debut and youngest WRC event winner

• "Following a couple of lacklustre", a couple again sounds a bit informal, could do with rewording

Reworded.

2022: Youngest World Rally Champion

• "before went on to win" > before he went

 Done.

• "he further won back-to-back victories" sentence is a little clunky. Perhaps reword to something like " he secured back-to-back victories"?

 Done.

• "he returned form to claim" > he returned to form to...

 Done.

• "title in his career" of his career?

 Done.

• "by late Colin McRae", no need to put late, it's not relevant to the subject.

 Done.

Personal life

• "Rovanperä a special permission", no need for the a.

 Done.

Rally victories

• The four wins in the WRC-2 Pro series state he was driving a Skoda Fabia R5 Evo, but the source seems to state a Skoda Fabia R2 Evo?

R2 is not Rally2. Here the "Skoda Fabia R5 evo" is indeed "Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo", only the name changes in line with the regulation. You may find this according to this source.

That's about all I've got from a first run through. Kosack (talk) 07:36, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Think I've addressed/answered all issues above. Feel free to have a second look. Unnamelessness (talk) 08:13, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Minor additional points

• "granted a 16-year-old Rovanperä to take part", probably my explanation but special permission can be kept here, it was just the "a" that I thought needed removing. So the sentence should be "Rovanpera special permission to take part..."

 Done.

• "In additional to enter the rallies" > In addition to entering the rallies...

 Done.

A couple of minor points and I think we're just about done. Kosack (talk) 10:08, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

All done. Unnamelessness (talk) 10:20, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Nice work. A spot check of the refs comes back good. I'm happy that this meets the GA criteria. Promoting. Kosack (talk) 10:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. Really appreciate. Unnamelessness (talk) 10:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 22:00, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Kalle Rovanperä is the youngest podium finisher, the youngest event winner and the youngest world champion in the World Rally Championship? Source: DirtFish, DirtFish, DirtFish
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  • Comment: This is my first DYK nom, so feel free to point out if I've done anything incorrect.

Improved to Good Article status by Teevee (talk). Nominated by Unnamelessness (talk) at 01:38, 9 January 2023 (UTC).

• Hi Unnamelessness (talk), welcome to DYK, review follows: article promoted to GA on 8 January; article is well written and cited inline throughout to what look to be reliable sources for the subject (not an expert on rallying); I didn't find any issues with overly close paraphrasing in a spotcheck on sources and Earwig was clear; hooks are interesting, mentioned in the article and check out to sources cited; a QPQ is not required. Looks good to go. My only criticism is that I don't think the number of stage wins and podiums stated in the infobox is verifiable from the information in the article and so should be cited, but it's not big enough to hold approval up over - Dumelow (talk) 18:30, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, Dumelow (talk). A source is cited at the bottom of the infobox to complete the final jigsaw. Unnamelessness (talk) 01:19, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

@Dumelow and Unnamelessness: could the hook be reworded so that possible future record usurpers don't make this hook untrue? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:31, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

• ALT0 ... that Kalle Rovanperä is the youngest podium finisher, the youngest event winner and the youngest world champion in the World Rally Championship as of the 2022 season?

theleekycauldron (talk), added "as of". Unnamelessness (talk) 09:57, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

• ALT1 ... that Kalle Rovanperä became the youngest podium finisher in 2020, the youngest event winner in 2021 and the youngest world champion in 2022 in the World Rally Championship?

Adding ALT. Unnamelessness (talk) 10:02, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

I don't know much about rallying but for ALT0 presumably the 2022 season is still ongoing; would it be possible for someone to break the record this season? I prefer ALT1 with the actual dates anyway and happy to approve that - Dumelow (talk) 10:58, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Picture

I know wikipedia only uses CC images but that is a pretty bad picture. GarethBaloney (talk) 07:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

You are encourage to upload an image as long as it is fair use. Unnamelessness (talk) 11:56, 30 October 2023 (UTC)