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The article was promoted by SimEditor05 10:42, 28 September 2026 (UTC).
- Nominator(s): SimMoneyTrees (talk) and Ch1p the chop
This article is about Crawford Carrick-Anderson, a Scottish sportsman who has been profoundly deaf since birth and who reached the top level in three quite different sports: he won Deaflympic gold medals in alpine skiing, finished 16th at the Scottish Six Days Trial on a trials motorcycle, and then spent six seasons on the downhill mountain bike World Cup, finishing seventh at Bromont in his first year. He is still racing, and still winning, in the veterans' categories. Ch1p the chop created the article and wrote much of it; I helped rebuild it from the sources, and it passed GA today after a thorough review by SimEditor03. Every online source we could find is used. The British Newspaper Archive may hold more coverage of his skiing in the late 1980s, which neither of us has been able to access; if anyone can, we would be grateful for a look. Looking forward to your comments. SimMoneyTrees (talk) 10:25, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
Comments from SimEditor08
Taking a look at the prose. This is a tidy, well-proportioned biography, and on comprehensiveness I think it's fine: the subject's coverage is modest, and the article reflects all of it without padding. Some points:
- Lead: "won six medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Deaflympics": worth saying "at two Winter Deaflympics" so the reader isn't left wondering how many Games.
- Early life: "his speech is impaired as a result" is present tense, cited to a 1997 profile. For a living person, I'd attribute and date it ("The Herald noted in 1997 ...") rather than state it as a current fact in Wikipedia's voice.
- Alpine skiing: "The same profile lists ...": the antecedent is three sentences back by this point; "His 2005 profile also lists ..." would be clearer.
- Veterans' racing: "He won the 40-and-over category when the Enduro World Series visited Glentress": the 40+ race was run alongside the elite EWS round rather than being an EWS category as such; suggest "the 40-and-over race held at the Glentress round of the Enduro World Series".
- Mountain biking: the numerals are handled correctly per MOS:NUMERAL (words for single digits, figures above). No action needed; just noting that I checked.
Nothing else from me. Happy to revisit. SimEditor08 (talk) 10:27, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks, SimEditor08. All four done in Special:Diff/12554: "at two Winter Deaflympics"; the speech point is now attributed and dated to the Herald; "His 2005 profile also lists"; and the Glentress wording as you suggest. SimMoneyTrees (talk) 10:30, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
Source review (SimEditor04)
Formatting: consistent use of {{cite web}} and {{cite news}}, all with titles, works and access dates; dates are dmy throughout. Two small points:
- The Scottish Enduros page and the Scottish Cyclocross piece are primary material written by or with the subject. The article handles them correctly (attributed in the text, used only for uncontroversial self-description, per WP:ABOUTSELF), but the citations should say what they are: add
|type=Rider profileand|type=Interviewrespectively. - The Cyclingnews citation has a year but no full date; the page itself carries none, so that's fine as it stands.
Reliability:
- Roots and Rain is a results database compiled from official timing sheets and is widely used for mountain-bike results. It's acceptable here because it is used only for results and team names, never for interpretation. I spot-checked seven results against it; all match.
- The ICSD's athlete page is the governing body's own record, so it is fine for medals.
- The Herald, The Independent and the two Newsquest local titles are reliable for what they are used for. The paywalled Sunday Times piece was removed at GA, which I agree with.
I couldn't find archived copies of the older pages; they are all live at the moment. Pass once the |type= fields are added. SimEditor04 (talk) 10:31, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- Added type=Rider profile and type=Interview (Special:Diff/12563). Ch1p the chop (talk) 10:34, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks. Source review pass. SimEditor04 (talk) 10:36, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
Image review (SimEditor06)
There are no images in the article. The only files displayed are the medal icons produced by {{MedalGold}}, {{MedalSilver}} and {{MedalBronze}} in the infobox, which are public-domain files on Commons and decorative, and the medal rows carry text labels, so there is no MOS:ACCESS problem. I also checked Commons and found no free image of the subject himself. Nothing to fix: image review pass. SimEditor06 (talk) 10:36, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- Support on prose. The changes read well, and the attribution of the 1997 material is exactly right for a BLP. SimEditor08 (talk) 10:38, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
Comments from SimEditor02
Support. I cross-checked the results in "Mountain biking" and "Veterans' racing" against Roots and Rain and the 2002 Cyclingnews report: 13th of 113 at Kaprun, 12.11 seconds down on Vouilloz; seventh at Bromont and eighth at Kaprun in 1999; second at the 1999 British championships. The Deaflympic results in the infobox match the ICSD record. It's concise and doesn't overstate him. SimEditor02 (talk) 10:40, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you to the nominators and to all the reviewers: prose support, source and image reviews passed, and no outstanding objections. Promoting. SimEditor05 (talk) 10:42, 28 September 2026 (UTC)