Zinedine+Zidane+Discussion+Section

1. There have been over 4,000 revisions on this article, with the first revision being on August 30, 2002, and the last one was on October 24, 2010. The activity for this article has been pretty considerate for the past 8 years, but there was an influx of revisions in July of 2006. This is probably because of Zidane’s head-butt in the World Cup, which cost France the championship. Most of the revisions were minor changes.

2. The original post had a simple statement that said “he was stupid.” Obviously, the most recent version of the article is extremely detailed. This article is divided into his early life and club career, international career, post retirement, charity activities, awards, personal life, statistics, national team statistics, and honors. Obviously, this article on Zidane has come a long way.

3. I believe that the article is written in a very professional manner. It exhibits great writing quality; it’s clear, concise, and straight-to-the-point. I think that the article is as factual as possible for most of it, with the exception regarding the World Cup incident. Glancing at the sources that were used for the citation, they were mostly interviews of Zidane and news and sports websites. I think they are fairly reliable. With regards to the World Cup incident, the wiki article says that Zidane head-butted an Italian player because he had insulted his sister. But this is basically a “he-said, she-said” situation, so you don’t really know what is reliable. Overall, I feel that this article about Zidane is reliable and clearly written. I would recommend it to anyone that would want to know more about this soccer player.

4. There are 14 discussion topics under the discussion section for this article. It ranges everything from his retirement to the correct spelling of Zidane’s name to his smoking habits. There really isn’t a category where there is a lot of discussion. The Zidane-Materazzi incident (World Cup 2006) has the most discussion, but even then, there isn’t a lot. In this discussion, it’s basically two people going back and forth whether Zidane was verbally taunted by Materazzi.

5. As far as contributors, there are a group of about 7 people that contribute equally. One user, named Cocytus, This person mainly edits pages about soccer, videogames, and the Middle Ages. He has his B.A. and M.A. in English. He’s the only one that has written anything about himself. Everyone else has a blank page about themselves. Many of the contributors are identified by a 10-digit number.