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Lou Gehrig was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 9, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 7, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 16, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 20, 2008	Good article reassessment	Not listed
November 7, 2025	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 4, 2004, July 4, 2007, June 19, 2009, June 19, 2012, June 19, 2016, June 19, 2019, June 19, 2024, and June 19, 2025.
Current status: Former good article nominee

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GA review

Latest comment: 6 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Unsuccessful. Z1720 (talk) 15:22, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Lou Gehrig/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Giants7 (talk · contribs) 07:02, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Z1720 (talk · contribs) 15:21, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I am sorry, but I am going to quick fail this nomination. There are several uncited statements, including entire paragraphs, which need citations before this could be considered a GA. I also recommend merging some of the short, one sentence paragraphs in the "Film and other media" section. Lastly, I think many of the block quotes, especially the larger ones like his last speech, should be summarised and removed: perhaps they can be copied over to Wikiquotes. This article can be nominated again at GAN when the citation and the short paragraphs concerns are resolved. Z1720 (talk) 15:21, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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