Talk:Plastic Brit

Plastic Brit has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: June 22, 2014. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Plastic Brit appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Tiffany Porter was called a "Plastic Brit" by a newspaper for refusing to recite the words of "God Save the Queen"? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Plastic Brit.

This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Athletics Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Athletics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the sport of athletics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page and join the discussion.AthleticsWikipedia:WikiProject AthleticsTemplate:WikiProject AthleticsAthletics articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. United Kingdom Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Sports This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sports, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sport-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SportsWikipedia:WikiProject SportsTemplate:WikiProject Sportssports articles To-do list: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Requested articles (Sports) Requested articles (Association football) Requested articles (Association football women) Requested articles (Motor sports) Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople) Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status. Cleanup : * Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state) * Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.) * Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing. * Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required. * Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show." Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports) * Sport industry (currently a sub-stub) Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories. Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs Update : List of world sports championships Other : Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red. Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project RfCs: answer requests for comment

Apart from the fact that the GB team is the team for the United Kingdom, of which GB is only a part, it is also the team for Anguilla, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Turks and Caicos Islands. It should be noted in the article that people from these places are not somehow feigning Britishness, but participate for an inadequately named team. Kevin McE (talk) 22:48, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Plastic Brit/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Adam Cuerden (talk · contribs) 15:04, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"The term was used to describe a number of amateur wrestlers who had not been born in the UK and had been British citizenship." - please clarify. More soon. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:04, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done that one. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 07:28, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

""Then there are cases where there is support but they go because there is a bigger gain in another country. Legally we can't stop it but it doesn't mean we love it."[18]" - I presume this makes sense in the context of the speech, but "support" and "gain" are largely undefined as it's used in the article. I'd suggest paraphrasing more of it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:10, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As for the rest... well, it could use a copyedit, frankly. The last section, in particular, seems to present the facts in a slightly random order. Nothing enough to cause it not to pass GA, but it's worth doing. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:21, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It did have a copyedit from GOCE on 4 February. That being said, I have moved that last paragraph around a bit to try to make it a bit clearer as it is a series of athletes criticising the Plastic Brit term. I have also added some clarity to the quote for context. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 10:39, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy enough. Promoted. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:52, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The fact of the Daily Mail using the term is established in RSes covering the issue - but the Mail's statements about living persons are a huge and obvious WP:BLP issue, and we absolutely should not be running the Mail's attacks on living people. This is precisely the sort of thing the Mail was deprecated for.

Fundamentally - if you're looking for excuses to use The Mail, you don't understand Wikipedia sourcing. And if you're doing it in the face of WP:BLP, you really need to understand that policy - David Gerard (talk) 12:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is this subject really WP:NOTABLE? The term is not in common usage even in Britain, and has really only been used in shitstirring and borderline racist journalism by the Daily Mail. Ef80 (talk) 14:21, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I notice most of the refs are from 2012 at the time of the London Olympics, with outliers from 2011 and 2015. --Ef80 (talk) 14:33, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]