Talk:The Amazing Race 7

GA review

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Nominator: Bgsu98 (talk · contribs) 22:27, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: LEvalyn (talk · contribs) 01:12, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I will take on this review! I typically prefer to make smallish prose edits myself and only place comments here when I have questions, though of course as always you should feel free to change or discuss any edits you happen to disagree with. Thanks for making a review pledge -- if you'd consider reviewing an album, there's currently an efford to make a dent in that specific subject category. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:12, 24 November 2025 (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

Comments

Notes

• I made a prose pass -- everything looks good. I removed a lot of instances of "in order to receive their next clue" and "had to" where I felt that information was obviously implied from the context; there are probably more places where the summaries could be made a little less wordy & repetitive by making more cuts along those lines, but it's not a major issue. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:55, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
• I think there is enough here for breadth, but as an optional idea, I think there's room to expand the "reception" section to explain about more about why people were rating it highly: what specific qualities of the show emerge as themes? eg, interesting locations, tense challenges, lovable or hate-watchable personas....? Given how extensively detailed the article is for "primary" information in the episode recaps, it would be nice to balance it with a little more "secondary" information. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:55, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
• Appropriate fair use rationale for the infobox cover image. Lots of relevant images with good captions throughout the body, which are great to see given how much of the show's interest comes from these sights -- all these licenses checked out. For a few, I boldly swapped in a newer image that struck me as being higher quality/more attractive. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 07:18, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Source review

For this review, I'm trying out a new tool called Veracity to randomly sample statements for source checking. This table checks 10 passages from throughout the article (25.0% of 40 total passages). These passages contain 10 inline citations (23.8% of 42 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Reference #	Letter	Source	Archive	Status	Notes
Most teams who arrive last at the Pit Stop of each leg are progressively eliminated. Teams that finish last on a pre-determined non-elimination leg are stripped of their provided cash and most of their possessions. The first team to arrive at the finish line in the final episode wins the grand prize of US$1,000,000.
2		Castro (2006), pp. 15–20
In this season, a change was made to the non-elimination leg penalty. In addition to being stripped of all their money and receiving no allowance for the next leg, teams were forced to surrender all of their possessions, except for their passports and the clothes they were wearing, for the remainder of the season.
6		Castro (2006), pp. 327–20			Verifies. All the info is just on p 327 so I updated the citation. I think this is a typo for 327-30? Probably.
Joyce Agu (credited as Joyce Robinson) previously appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in a recurring role as Ensign Gates.
11		realityblurred.com	web.archive.org		Verifies. On investigation, Reality Blurred looks like an acceptable RS.
and both also competed on Survivor: All-Stars,
16		alt.gossip.celebrities.narkiv…	archive.today
After competing on The Amazing Race, Rob later competed on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Survivor: Redemption Island, and served as a non-playing mentor on Survivor: Island of the Idols.
20		usmagazine.com	web.archive.org		This source doesn't verify that he was on "Redemption island". I'm sure you can find another source to add for that. Season 22 is "Redemption Island".
Later in the year, Rob competed on the third season of The Traitors.
24		today.com	web.archive.org
The head-shaving task was later revisited on season 20 as a Switchback.
28		ew.com
The Amazing Race 7 received mostly positive reviews. Andy Dehnart called this season satisfying by the end.
30		today.com	web.archive.org		This needs some rethinking. First, this recap doesn't on its own verify The Amazing Race 7 received mostly positive reviews -- it's better to cite something like the Rotten Tomatoes score for that kind of "aggregate"/"overview" statement. Second, I think "satisfying by the end" isn't a very good paraphrase of "offers [a] satisfying ending"; the first implies that the earlier parts of the show are unsatisfying, whereas Dehnart doesn't really say much about the earlier episodes or the season as a whole. I'd make the Dehnard part more specific by saying instead that Dehnard praised the show's "satisfying ending" or something like that. I've reworked that whole section.
In 2021, Jane Andrews of Gossip Cop ranked this season as the show's sixth best season.
4	b	gossipcop.com	web.archive.org		It's actually fifth. Fixed.
In 2024, Rhenn Taguiam of Game Rant ranked this season ninth.
36		gamerant.com	web.archive.org

Suggestions / questions

• I've tagged two uncited statements that need sourcing. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:12, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• Pinging User:Xoruz.

• Done. Xoruz (talk) 03:45, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• Looks great! ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• In this season, a change was made to the non-elimination leg penalty. In addition to being stripped of all their money and receiving no allowance for the next leg... -- this doesn't quite make sense on its own, and needs some kind of explanation either here or in the "overview" of what a "non-elimination leg penalty" is (ie, who would get one, when, and why). ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:55, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• While looking at this bit again during the source check I felt I understood well enough to address it myself. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• I am very surprised to see the five clue "cards" (Route Info, Detour, etc) in Wikimedia Commons as Public Domain. Surely even if they were re-created by the uploaders, the copyright still belongs to CBS? Shouldn't these be Fair Use images instead? ~ L 🌸 (talk) 07:17, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

  I don't know; the place to contest that seems to be Wiki Commons. 🤷‍♂️ Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:24, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

• Unfortunately for us, it's one of the GA criteria to confirm that all of the images have appropriate licenses, so we can't completely leave it to Commons to sort out. It's possible that these images fall below the threshold of originality, but I'm not sure. I'll ask for some advice. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 05:10, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

  Bgsu98 and Xoruz, I've gotten some expert advice about the images. For the four Detour, Roadblock, Fast Forward, and Yield "cards" and for the five small "icons" (those four and the Pit Stop), the copyright tag in Commons needs to be changed to the more accurate {{PD-simple}} tag. They are below the threshold of originality so they're not copyright violations, but they're also not strictly "own work"s.

  For the "route info" card, unfortunately it's too complex for {{PD-simple}} to apply. It needs to be deleted off Commons as a copyright violation. It's possible it could be re-uploaded to enwiki and retained in Amazing Race articles as Fair Use, though I think the Fair Use case is a little weak; I'll follow your lead on that aspect.

  Once all the image licenses are all sorted out, this article will be ready to pass. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 00:56, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

  LEvalyn: I believe I have done as you asked. If not (I'm not 100% sure I may the changes properly at Commons that you suggested), please let me know. Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:20, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

  So speedy! Thanks! When I looked at it again I thought {{PD-textlogo}} was really the most accurate for the card ones, but I made that swap myself, so I think everything now checks out on licensing and I'll pass the article. Good work to both of you! ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:35, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

User:LEvalyn: User:Xoruz has addressed the uncited statements, and I just did a cleanup of the sources. Please let me know what other concerns you have. and thank you! Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:24, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

• Glad to see it! I've now finished reviewing the sources and the images, so I just have a few more notes above that need addressing. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 07:17, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

  LEvalyn: I have addressed your concerns and reworked the entire critical response section. Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:24, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks, it's looking great! The added quotes in "reception" really go a long way. The only thing left now is the images, which I will get some advice about; nothing you need to do there. I'll let you know when that's resolved. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 05:10, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

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.