[edit] Subarticle
This is a new sub-article to be linked from Newcastle United F.C.. See Talk:Newcastle United F.C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewMcQ (talk • contribs) 23:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
This article is slanted towards recent times - at the moment the sections covering 1881-1992 contain 2,342 words, then for the years 1992-2011 we've got 7,576 words! That amount of detail is really good, but most of it should be moved into the season-by-season articles (e.g. 2011-12 NUFC season - here's an example of a "Good" season article).
This one should only cover historic events and changes - I know the stuff since 1992 means a lot to most of us, but historically Glenn Roeder's unsuccessful transfer bids weren't as important as the 3 championships or 4 FA Cups Newcastle won between 1895 & 1914 (which this section hardly even mentions). If I have time, I'll move some of the less important paragraphs.
Responsible? (talk) 03:13, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Really good point. I'm guilty for some amount of the quantity ending up here in a bid to get the main Newcastle United F.C. article up to GA, mainly for simplicity in cleaning that article up. This article and the season article will really benefit if you can reshuffle some of the text around, and maybe we could even get some of them up to GA quality in time...? Fintan264 (talk) 17:12, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
With a bit of shifting, the word count is down to 2,247 for events up to 1992, and 2,986 words for the history since then. There's still scope for editing down the sections on 2004-2011 more (moving content to the season articles), as long as the biggest events are described concisely throughout the article. - Responsible? (talk) 08:58, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
