Talk:Katy Marchant/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Canary757 (talk · contribs) 07:07, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Gommeh (talk · contribs) 12:46, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi again, thanks for taking the time to review. I will work through your comments and any additional ones you find and will ping you when I'm ready. Canary757 (talk) 07:26, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

@Gommeh I have done my best to address your points and have shared a thought on one. I have also added an extra fact in the personal life section as it was quite short. Let me know if there is anything else you want me to address. Thanks. Canary757 (talk) 13:27, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Starting this for WP:GARC. Comments will come soon. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:46, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

GA criteria commentary

• Article is very stable, as no one except Canary757 has edited it since June 2025. (Not including the bot, that is.)
• File:2024 UEC Track Elite European Championships 087.jpg looks mostly fine, but I see there's a "personality rights warning" on the page that I've never seen before. Does that have any impact on its potential usability in the article? (Probably not, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.)
• The rest of the images look fine.

Article commentary

• What is a Wattbike and is it important to the subject? I have reworded this as the sentence is key to her switch from one sport to another.
• In July 2015, Marchant became European under-23 champion in the keirin. Is this grammatically correct? Reworded and added the missing article

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  In the sprint, she overcame Becky James in the final to seal her first senior national title.

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  In the sprint, she overcame Becky James in the final to win her first senior national title.

   Done
• They said that British Cycling had got their selection policy wrong during the qualifying period, how so? Did they ever specify what they should have done instead?
• At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Marchant won a bronze medal in the sprint. Reading this sentence leads me to think that "sprint" refers to what we in the US would refer to as track and field, which can be confusing to some. I would reword this to clarify. Reworded by adding velodrome location with the words rider and cyclist in the subsequent sentence. Sprint is the official name for the event. Sometimes referred to as individual sprint also but wiki competition pages use sprint.

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  Marchant was named in Great Britain's cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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  Marchant was named to Great Britain's cycling squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

   Done
• In the sprint, she was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Lee Wai Sze. What country is Lee from? Specify in the article. There are a few cases of this in other places as well.  Done
• In April 2022, she revealed that she was expecting her first child. She stated that she would return to racing, explaining: "On the plane back [from Tokyo] I felt I was not quite finished, [..] I love a challenge and I’d really like to give this a go." Feels like this belongs in the personal life section. I'm not on board with this one. If I may ask you to have a quick look at Kim Clijsters. This featured article also needed to address a mid-career pregnancy and it has been included within the career section, see here. If I move it into personal life, there will be an unexplained gap in the career section and the quote that I added is very much focused on the effect on her career and future career ambitions, not her child alone.

• Got it. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:49, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

• I'm not quite sure if it's important to list that her husband is a farmer. Additionally, and the couple have a son born in 2022 needs to be reworded as it sounds a little clunky. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:49, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
• had gone into partnership with Manchester Bike Kitchen Is "gone into partnership" grammatically correct British English? (I don't think we Americans would consider that correct but this could be a linguistic difference so I'm not too sure.) Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:49, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

That's all the prose issues I have at the moment. Let me know when you've fixed them and I can do a source check. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:49, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, edits made to address.

Canary757 (talk) 17:03, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, regarding the photo, user Nicola has uploaded loads of these for track cyclists and they are widely used across many articles - see Emma Finucane, Elinor Barker and Laura Kenny for example. We can always seek another opinion? Canary757 (talk) 18:30, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm just concerned about any potential copyright issues is all. I'll put this under 2O for now. Gommeh 📖   🎮 19:21, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi! So Commons:Commons:Photographs of identifiable people basically means that people who are identifiable in images have a legal right to ask for images of themselves to be taken down. If you are worried about copyright, then that isn't what is being discussed here, there is no copyright issue.

Generally with images you need consent from a person you are taking the image of if it's in a private space. I wouldn't consider this to be a private space (she's clearly at an event that would have had an audience), I don't think she's expecting privacy, and even if she were, she is smiling and posing for the camera, which implies consent of the image being taken.

In short, she may have some rights about taking the image down (why it is a warning), but that really shouldn't stop us using the image whilst that isn't the case. You may not have seen the warning template before, but I suspect that's more because people uploading to commons don't always know what to tag, rather than this being a special case. Hope that is helpful. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:57, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to look into this @Lee Vilenski. Canary757 (talk) 08:17, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

No drama. If you do want further clarification, I'd ask on Commons, I can't confess to being an expert. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:27, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

I asked at Commons: Help desk and there was no issue with using it. Thanks. Canary757 (talk) 12:11, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Glad their response is pretty much the same as mine, so I'm happy I didn't completely make that up. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:59, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Source spot check

• Source 4 checks out.
• What is Velo UK and is it a reliable source? (Sources 6, 13, 21)
• Source 16a does not check out, as Becky James is not mentioned. Source 16b is fine.
• Source 17 checks out.
• Source 21 checks out.
• Is SportsMole a reliable source? (Source 27) If so, source 27 checks out.
• Source 42 checks out (I personally remember watching that event on TV).
• Source 49 checks out.

Hi. I use a nice program called CiteHighlighter User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter. It highlights references which are considered very trustworthy green e.g BBC, beige colour for be careful, orange be very careful how you use it, and red - known unreliable source. Sites like governing bodies and stats databases are normally not highlighted. There are zero beige/orange or red sources on this page. VeloUK is a results and reports database. I use it a lot across many articles and have never encountered any problems with it. With regards to 16a, I see where the problem is, basically there were two successive facts in two sentences around the same event and I have added two separate references together immediately after, one for the first part and one for the second. However I have moved a ref so there is now one ref after the first fact and the other one after the second which should make it clearer. With regards to sportsmole, it doesn't show up as red so it should be fine but I have supplemented it with a PDF from the official Commonwealth Games results site which also shows her finishing sixth. Hope this helps. Canary757 (talk) 15:25, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

I use that program too, but just as a heads up it's not 100% authoritative. Anyhow, looks like we're all good source-wise and I have no further issues with the article. I'll be passing this momentarily. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:29, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

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