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 * 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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 13:37, 11 March 2016.

Partick Thistle F.C.

 * Nominator(s): Andrew Henderson 14:02, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

This article is about Partick Thistle Football Club, a professional Association Football team based in the Maryhill district of Glasgow, Scotland. I believe that this article, at the moment, is good enough to be considered for "Featured Article" standard. It has already achieved "Good Article" status, and has remained so for more than a year. Any constructive comments are welcome. Thanks,  Andrew Henderson 14:02, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Oppose – Welcome to FAC, Andrew. While I don't have time at the moment for a full reading of the article, a quick scan revealed several problems that cause the article to not meet the demanding FA criteria. Best of luck with the FAC, but please do ensure that these issues are fixed, and take a careful look at the article for any problems that might pop up in a more thorough, sentence-by-sentence review of the writing. Giants2008 ( Talk ) 02:08, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * There are several uncited sentences and paragraphs sprinkled throughout the article. For example, there are a couple of uncited paragraphs in the Stadium section. Frankly, I'm surprised the GA reviewer didn't make an issue of this.
 * Some of the paragraphs are one or two sentences, which leaves the impression that they are stubby. The Stadium and Community Trust sections seem to have a bunch of these at a glance.
 * What is meant to be sourcing the majority of the tables in the latter part of the article. This content needs to be verifiable as well as the text.
 * Some of the references are bare links that require further formatting.
 * A few issues I have spotted:
 * "History" section is disproportionately weighted towards recent events, for example why do we need to know that Thistle finished 8th last year?
 * "Stadium" section is largely unsourced
 * "Full internationalists" section is almost completely unsourced
 * "Honours" section is almost completely unsourced
 * "Kit suppliers" table is completely unsourced, I also don't see why this information is needed
 * Long-standing consensus at WP:FOOTY is that "famous supporters" sections are not encyclopedic and should not be included in articles. It is in no way a significant aspect of the club that Paul Pogba "keeps track of Thistle's results", or that David Hasselhoff once made a throwaway quip about supporting the club (which I doubt very much he was even remotely serious about)
 * I think there's quite a bit of work to be done to get the article up to FA standard...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:21, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Closing comment -- The above points, with which I concur having scanned the article myself, suggest the article is underprepared for FAC, so I'll be archiving it shortly. Pls don't be discouraged but address the issues raised and then you can renominate, as long as a minimum of two weeks has passed per FAC instructions. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:37, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 13:37, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
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