Talk:Shōma Fujihira

Shōma Fujihira is currently a Other sports good article nominee. Nominated by mikeblas (talk) at 22:12, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

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Nominator: Mikeblas (talk · contribs) 22:12, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

GA review

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Reviewer: HonkBase (talk · contribs) 10:51, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the review! Since this is a Japanese player in a Japanese league, why should their statistics be conformed to American-league specific representations? Japanese ball is at least a little different, and the stats reporting reflects that. Also, his WBC play is mentioned in the "2026" section of the article. -- mikeblas (talk) 15:40, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

I understand that Japanese/NPB ball are different from American/MLB ball. I believe {{WP:BASESTYLEPL}} is not country-specific advice on formatting and writing a player page.

Generally, I think the prose could be improved to reach the "well-written" criteria. HonkBase (talk) 22:43, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

For example, in the lead there is an {{MOS:GEOLINK}} issue (three links), his ethnicity is in the wrong place, and the wording of "He plays pitcher" is not consistent with most well-written articles. HonkBase (talk) 23:00, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer suggestions

Below are my suggestions for improving the quality of writing of this article.

Pre-Professional

Consider changing to “playing career” and “amateur career”

Many potential links. Consider if MOS:UNDERLINK

Unreferenced sentence: “Yūya Gunji was a year ahead of him on the Little Senior team.”

The Rakuten Era

Change to team name (per baseball style guide)

Consider moving NPB draft results to this section

2017

Unclear what “squad” refers to.

Consider if this is MOS:UNDELINK

Is his professional debut his NPB debut? Is the Eastern League not professional?

Typo: “first”

Can you distinguish between walks and hbp?

Is the Outstanding Player Award listed twice?

2-2/3 can be represented using ⁄

Different length dashes (en and em) are used for win-loss record

2018

Second and third paragraphs can be combined with first.

Replace “they” used in second paragraph.

Was his rehabilitation from an injury?

Cross link to Manabu Mima

2019

Use of numbers varies between first two paragraphs. MOS:NUMBER

2020

Change “novel coronavirus” to COVID-19. Can cross link to a specific “impact of the COVID-19 pandemic” article on Japan or sports

Why is “dangerous pitch” in quotes? MOS:SCAREQUOTES

Consider replacing “mere”

Can this sentence be rewritten to be concise and clarify tense: “Including this game, he has continued to make appearances consisting of short innings”

Can this sentence be moved to only NPB appearance: “His major league appearances for the year were limited to the single game mentioned previously;”

Is “official game appearance” a technical NPB term? Consider using games pitched

2021

Remove comma at end of second paragraph.

Consider combining first two paragraphs and some of the final five paragraphs.

2022

Replace “utilized” with “used”

“First start of the season” is unclear. I assume this is the first start in NPB.

Consider combining paragraphs.

2023

Clarify/rewrite “make his case”

Normalize capitalization of Opening Day throughout the article

Link to Takayuki Kishi

Clarify “irregular schedules” (I believe the typical schedule is 6 days a week) and “team circumstances”

Change “revealed” to “said” MOS:SAID

2024

Consider combining first two paragraphs.

Clarify the “emergency”

Link to save (baseball)

2025

Consider combining first three paragraphs

Crosslink Tatsuru Yanagimachi and Yuya Ogo, setup man, Japan national baseball team, South Korea national baseball team

Consider moving international activity to international/”national team career”

2026

Update national team activity—did he pitch in WBC? Consider moving to international/”national team career”

Update any NPB performance

Player Characteristics

Consider renaming “Player profile” per [WP:WikiProject Baseball/Player style advice/Sample biography]]

Can cross link to pitch types.

Should some/all of this be moved to 2024 season?

Statistics and Awards

Pitching Statistics by Season

Subheading not necessary (no other sub-sections)

Consider where this is necessary. Player style sample bio does not include statistics, and neither do many good articles. This information is easily available via NPB, Baseball Reference, FanGraphs, etc.

===National Team Career===

Move above “Player characteristics”

Add 2025 Korea series and 2026 WBC

Consider adding youth career

Link to Japan national team

References

Many references include archive links but do not indicate that links are live. Review “url-status=”. For example, Ref #109 is live and “url-status=” is blank.

Do any references have authors?

Names of websites are not translated for many references.

External links

Group statistics pages (Cube, NPB.com) by template:baseballstats

Provide translation of other external links. It is unclear to English readers what these link to. MOS:LAYOUTEL HonkBase (talk) 20:26, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Since there were no edits since my last comment, I just added many of them. I think it still needs improvement to meet the "well-written" criteria. HonkBase (talk) 16:56, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I'll be starting the GA review. Unfortunately, I think this needs a fair amount of revision.

Style

Please review WP:BASESTYLEPL for the baseball player style guide and WP:MOSBIO for the broader style guide for biographies. There are a lot of areas to improve. It appears this article is largely a translation of the Japanese wiki page and, as an editor of many American baseball pages, this article is not "well written" per WP:GACR6

The lead section be improved MOS:Lead, the Statistics section should be reviewed to determine if it's necessary, and the prose for many seasons should be edited to be clear, concise, and not too technical.

Updated

The infobox and his international career section do not appear to be up-to-date. His inclusion in the 2026 WBC roster would be relevant to an English-speaking audience.