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List of AFC Wimbledon seasons

Nominator(s): Jodie25 (talk) 16:55, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list for the third time as I believe that issues previously raised have now been addressed. It provides a comprehensive and accessible list of the seasons of AFC Wimbledon football club from inception in 2002 up to the season ending May 2016. Jodie25 (talk) 15:55, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Yellow Dingo
  • The last sentence in the first paragraph of the lead is very long and contains multiple ideas. Try to split it up a bit.
  • "2002–03 season" → 2002–03 season
  • "attendance at league fixtures for their first season exceeded 3,000" → "attendance for league fixtures in their first season exceeded 3,000"
  • "Wimbledon have also" → "Wimbledon also"
  • "The club went on to achieve 5 promotions in 9 seasons" → The club went on to achieve five promotions in nine seasons" per MOS:SPELL09
  • "them the youngest of the 72 Football League clubs" per the link in that statement that statement is wrong as the link says MK Dons is newer
  • "their 6th promotion to Football League One after victory " → "their sixth promotion when they were promoted to Football Football League One after a victory"
  • Quite a few of the works in the references could be linked (i.e. The Observer to The Observer in ref 1)

— Good work so far. I have pointed out a few issues above. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 05:13, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • My main gripe is that the list really ought to be sortable. See fellow FLC candidate List of Arsenal F.C. seasons for what I mean.
  • I echo Yellow Dingo the last sentence in the first paragraph is very long. Try and split it up
  • "The club's average home attendance at league fixtures for their first season exceeded 3,000 – higher than the average attendance in the same season of Wimbledon F.C., who were still playing in the First Division (now the Football League Championship)." -> An average attendance of over 3,000 during their first season was higher than Wimbledon F.C., who were still playing in the First Division (now the Football League Championship.)
  • Do AFC Wimbledon hold the record for the longest period unbeaten in English football? If so, it should say hold, not have set a record to make it clear to the reader it's THE record!
  • "The club went on to achieve 5 promotions..." The club achieved five promotions in nine seasons.
  • "...their 6th promotion to Football League One." his makes it soumd like it was the 6th time they were promoted to League One, which is obviously not the case. Needs to be written more clearly.

NapHit (talk) 18:59, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments The users above have picked up most of the issues (which seem to still be outstanding - is any work being done), to which I would add a few other points, mainly around unnecessary information in the notes:

  • "AFC Wimbledon were deducted 3-points...." - no reason for dash in "3-points"
  • "....and fined £400" - no reason to mention the fine, as it had no impact on their league record that season
  • No reason for "international clearance" to be in quote marks
  • Don't use the term "the Darlington affair" - this sounds like something out of a tabloid headline and not encyclopedic at all
  • "AFC Wimbledon were deducted 3 points and given a £5,000 fine suspended for one year by a Football Disciplinary Commission hearing" - everything after "3 points" really doesn't need to be mentioned
  • "In addition the club was required to pay the costs of the hearing" - again, completely irrelevant to the club's record in the season in question, so no need to mention it
  • "It was found that the player's multiplicity contract had in fact expired on 19 March 2014 and had not been renewed on that date due to the illness of a key member of the club's administrative staf" - same goes for this
  • What makes katzpaw.com a reliable source?
  • What makes totalworlds.com a reliable source? Further to this one, the links to that site don't work
  • One of the links to totalworlds.com is listed as "Rundle, Richard. "AFC Wimbledon: Football Club History Database". totalworlds.com. Retrieved 13 September 2012." Why not just link to the actual FCHD site, rather than what I can only presume (given that it doesn't work) is some sort of copyright violating mirror of it?

Cheers, ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:07, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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