User talk:Struway2


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Muntz Street – FAC?

Well, shorter articles that are less well written and much less interesting, have made it through FAC. I have just run through it again, made some small prose and punctuation fixes, and come up with three small points for attention:-

Is it possible to give a year for the building of the wooden stand on the Coventry Road side?
You have the words "along the Coventry Road to Small Heath Park" in quotes, without indicating where you are quoting them from. I assume this is covered by the citation at the paragraph's end, but this is not obvious, and the question is likely to be asked. Personally I would simply drop the quote marks, as there is nothing especially vivid in the wording that makes it worth highlighting.
The phrasing "no fewer than 3,000 spectators" has a hidden "wow" element. I'd change it to "at least 3,000 spectators".

If you deal with these, then read the FA criteria and, if you feel confident you can defend the article against them, then why not nominate? Pay particular attention to the quality of your sources and to images, as these are areas of much attention at FAC, as you may have found at your previous visit. Let me know if you decide to take this one there. Brianboulton (talk)

Jonathon Spector

Thanks for the reply and sorry for the forceful edge to the edit summary. Sometimes I feel that we would be better off with separate English and American Wikipedias. People of my generation sometimes tire of the way that television and so forth mean that Americanisms take over here. Sometimes it shows when I'm tired or fed up. What is ironic is that my username here is a mixture of my surname and the fact I'm a Brit, which was coined when I used to take part in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer forum. Go figure, as I probably shouldn't say. Britmax (talk) 20:21, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re:QPR seasons

Thanks for that, I hadn't seen the website about the London League before. I know the BL has a copy of the Amateur Cup results with the qualifying rounds, its just they've had some problems with asbestos if one of their off site storage areas and unfortunatly that's the area with this one particular book - so at the moment I can't order it for viewing. I'm sure within a few months it should be avaliable.

Also found out that Hammersmith and Chelsea libraries have the complete run of the West London Observer, so I'm going to see if I can organise a viewing there. Considering that there seems to be virtually no information on the West London League or the West London Observer Cup out there, I'm keen to gather as much information as possible to make it avaliable on Wiki for all the non-league enthusiasts. Miyagawa (talk) 12:26, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Huseklepp

I was going to send you a message and ask what you thought about my edit, but you beat me to it. I think it's better that the article states sourced "rumours", then IP's constantly reporting him ready for Birmingham. Feel free to undo my edit (and all the other IP's that report him ready) :) Mentoz86 (talk) 11:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Small Heath 1898-99

I have the attendance for the Birmingham Charity Cup game but the round and venue [(a) = away match] are different, strangely. Below is verbatim from my WBA-orientated source:

1898-9
Round 1
Sep 12 v Small Heath (a) 4-3
Garfield 2, R. Brett, Banks
Att: 3,000
Semi-final
Sep 26 v Walsall (a) 1-3
Jones
Att: 4,000

Source: <ref>{{cite book | last = Matthews | first = Tony | coauthors=Mackenzie, Colin | title = Albion! A Complete Record of West Bromwich Albion 1879-1987 | publisher = Breedon Books | date = 1987 | isbn = 0-907969-23-2 | page = 207}}</ref>

Make of all that what you will! --Jameboy (talk) 18:40, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you do requests? You hum it, I'll sing it?

Hey Struway2, any chance you could cast your steely glance toward List of Malmö FF seasons? You can usually find a few things that no-one else on earth can spot, and invariably improve our candidates before they're promoted. If not, no bother, just thought I'd chance my arm. Cheers, The Rambling Man (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problemo. Hope you recuperate rapidly. Cheers, The Rambling Man (talk) 12:45, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers dude! The Rambling Man (talk) 12:57, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Career stats tables

Hi, on the Craig Gardner article it seemed that the stats were correct, just missing the last two league games. I will look over the whole thing next time, Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eng66 (talk • contribs) 13:46, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

im sorry but it is a known fact that joe hart is 6 foot 3 as ive met him and i am 6 foot 8 and nemanja vidic is definatley 6 foot 4