Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1997–98 Gillingham F.C. season/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 25 September 2022 [1].

1997–98 Gillingham F.C. season

Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:06, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies if everyone is thoroughly bored of these by now, but here's my 17th nomination of a season from the history of English football (soccer) club Gillingham F.C. - this one will (fingers crossed) complete an unbroken run of FAs from 1985 to 2001 (no idea why I left this one till now......). In this particular season the club came within the thickness of a goalpost of reaching the play-offs and sadly a fan died in fighting outside the ground, the only time I can recall such a tragic event happening at Priestfield Stadium...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:06, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately licensed, but the Southall image is of quite poor quality. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria: - Southall image removed -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:26, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from NØ

I'll leave this as a placeholder and add some comments soon. I have an FAC right above this one in case it interests you to review it. Regards.--N Ø 04:50, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Results improved in the second half of the season and with one game remaining Gillingham were sixth in the table, which would be sufficient for a place in the promotion play-offs." - This could use a comma after "season"
I have been discouraged from using the word "however" in the past so I think this could be safely removed from the one sentence in the lead where it's used.
"The highest attendance recorded at the club's home ground, Priestfield Stadium, was 10,507 for a game against Fulham in March; the game was marred by fighting between rival supporters which resulted in a Fulham fan dying." - Pretty long sentence here so the part after the semicolon might benefit from being split.
There seem to be a bunch of overlinks, not sure if these are intentional but I still thought I should point them out: Preston North End, midfielder, Bristol City, Promotion and relegation.

The article is really well-done so I think that will be all from me.--N Ø 08:18, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MaranoFan: - many thanks for your review, all done I think. I have left the first use only of both "promotion" and "relegation" linked to promotion and relegation as I think it is valid to link both, even though it's to the same target article -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:30, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- N Ø 08:36, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by FrB.TG

"and with one game remaining Gillingham were sixth in the table" - maybe place a comma after remaining.
"The club's first-choice kit consisted of blue shirts, blue shorts, and blue socks" - can we find a way to not repeat blue three times? Perhaps "blue shirts, shorts, and socks" or "shirts, shorts, and socks that were all blue"?
"Gillingham played five matches in October and won four of them, defeating Bristol City, Wycombe Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Plymouth Argyle" - comma before Plymouth since you are using oxford commas throughout the article.
"Akinibiyi, Butler, Ashby, Andy Hessenthaler and Galloway" - oxford comma needed per above.

Support - aside from the few nit-picks above, I don't have much else to add. Another worthy candidate to add to your series of Gillingham F.C. season. FrB.TG (talk) 15:48, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: - many thanks for your review, all the above fixed -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:07, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments and source review by Aoba47

I have a question about this part, a decision which led to a lengthy and acrimonious court case between him and Scally. Do we know the result of this case? Would it be relevant to briefly mention here?

This is my only comment regarding the prose so I will also do a source review to get that out of the way.

It is not required for a FAC, but I would encourage you to archive web citations, such as Citation 70, to avoid any potential future headache.
The citations are all appropriate for a FA and an article on this topic, and everything is structured well.
I'd say Nottingham is worth a link in the "Works cited" section. It is a recognizable enough city, but I could see some readers not being familiar with it, as opposed to a place like London.

Again, there is not much to comment on. It looks like everything regarding the prose as already been addressed by the above reviews. Once my question about the court case is answer and the Nottingham link is added, I will be more than happy to support this FAC for promotion based on the prose and pass its source review. Aoba47 (talk) 02:00, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Aoba47: - thanks for your review, all addressed -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:30, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for addressing everything. I support this FAC for promotion and this passes my source review. Have a great weekend! Aoba47 (talk) 14:32, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Co-ordinator query

@FAC coordinators: - might I now launch another nom...? You may be able to hazard a guess at the general topic :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:12, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fire away... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 19:40, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:30, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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