# Talk:Roy Riegels

Many years after the famous game, Riegels was inducted as an honorary member of the Georgia Tech lettermen's club. I believe his comment at the time was that he appreciated the honor and he certainly felt he'd earned it. I'll get a citation for this when I get the time...if you want to beat me to it it's undoubtedly to be found somewhere on the Tech website.... Ellsworth (talk) 00:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

This article was nominated for DYK on June 9, 2013. Mistercontributer (talk) 19:55, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Roy Riegels/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Secret (talk · contribs) 01:20, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
I'll be reviewing this article tomorrow, on a quick glance I do see some major reliable sourcing concerns that needs to be fixed however. Secret account 01:20, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Heh tomorrow turned into a month, thank you overheated, crap laptop computer. Well I apologize for my mistake in delaying the review, lets get started....

Nothing on his early life at all or his career before the infamous fumble? Surprising there isn't more out there considering the notoriety of the play.
So far I have not been able to find any information regarding his early life or football career before the wrong way run. However, I will keep looking.
University of California was a major school in the west, add some background information as well.
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Quotes fail WP:MOS#QUOTES, either incorporate to the article or remove completely.
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What makes this a high-quality reliable source?
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This is a dead link, replace or remove.
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What makes this a high-quality reliable source, being from a fan site?
I found two additional references which could be used in place of the above reference: reference 1 and reference2. However, the article will need to be revised to include content from these two references.
Price credits Riegels as the smartest player he ever coached. Misplaced sentence that is better moved somewhere and a new section about Riegels Cal career in general.
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Apparently most of the content in Aftermath and Personal life is conflicting, I recommend moving content from "Aftermath" that doesn't involve his football career or the wrong way play (e.g the coaching, World War II, and chemical company) and see if you could merge it to personal life.
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That's just to start, it has too many issues (primarily comprehensiveness and MOS) to qualify for a quick fail, but I'll give you a few days to fix some of the problems and what you can come up with and I'll help you from there as this falls under my area of expertise. Thanks Secret account 05:07, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing this article. No reason to apologize for the delay. I am incredibly busy myself but I will respond to the feedback listed above as time allows. Thanks again - Mistercontributer (talk) 01:25, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
The rewrite is better than I thought, I'm sure there is information about Riegels early life somewhere, but that is going to be a pain searching I'm sure. Good job. Secret account 04:11, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I will keep looking for info about his early life. - Mistercontributer (talk) 17:54, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

The Aftermath section has two sentences back to back as follows:
The opening sequence of the 1929 Frank Capra movie Flight is based on Riegels and uses photographs of him.[17][18] A year later, the movie John Goldfarb, Please Come Home was released and the lead character performs a similar blunder in his college years, earning the name "Wrong Way" Goldfarb.[19] 
This is chronologically impossible, as the novel "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" wasn't written until 1963, with the movie coming out in 1965 . There appears to be at least one reference missing between "Flight" and "Goldfarb"; but I have no idea of what it is.
24.112.141.22 (talk) 15:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

That was a good catch. I made the appropriate revision within the article to correct this issue. -Mistercontributer (talk) 00:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
As of 8 Oct 16, five links are listed in the External Images side box. The bottom three are defunct. 174.69.130.253 (talk) 15:47, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out. The links to the external images have been corrected. Mistercontributer (talk) 15:47, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

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