Talk:2003 Football League Second Division play-off final

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Good article2003 Football League Second Division play-off final has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 2, 2018.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the night before the 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final, the Queens Park Rangers' team hotel was targeted by a malicious false fire alarm?
Current status: Good article

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 21:16, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to notice that a lower-league play-off final is is at GAN. Will be posting comments soon. MWright96 (talk) 21:16, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

General[edit]

  • Be consistent in how you present Queens Park Rangers: i.e. it should be just one term and not two as you use currently (QPR and Rangers)

Lead[edit]

  • "The redevelopment of Wembley Stadium meant that Football League play-off final matches were played in Cardiff between 2001 and 2006." - meant that Football League play-off final matches held between 2001 and 2006 were played in Cardiff.
  • "who finished fourth during the league season, and Cardiff City, who finished sixth. " - reptition of finished

Route to the final[edit]

  • "finishing between 3rd and 6th to enter the play-offs" - numbers between three to six should be spelt out per MOS:NUMBERS
  • "Rangers midfielder Richard Langley equalised before being sent off with ten minutes remaining after a second bookable offence" - what was the circumstance that led to Langley's sending-off?

Pre-match[edit]

  • ""a club game, not an international fixture." - missing the closing quotation marks in this section of text
  • "First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan criticised the decision commenting that anthems shouldn't be a part of the match but if they were then both should be played." - should not
  • "striker Paul Furlong stated that he believed" - try stated his belief to make it slightly less wordy
  • "Cardiff chairman Hammam stated before the game" - you don't need to mention that Hamman was chairman of Cardiff shortly after another paragraph
  • "However, Holloway rubbished Hammam's call" - Rubbished is informal

Summary[edit]

  • " QPR goalkeeper Chris Day produced an impressive save" - Per WP:PEACOCK, avoid words such as impressive

References[edit]

  • Refs 15 & 18 should have HighBeam Research as the source of your information

Overall a good neat work you have piece together. Only just the prose copy-edit and reference nibbles from my end. MWright96 (talk) 14:56, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96: Thanks very much for the review, I've sorted the issues you raised above. Kosack (talk) 15:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]