Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Seattle Sounders FC/archive2


 * 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 Karanacs 18:32, 29 December 2009.

Seattle Sounders FC

 * Nominator(s): SkotyWATalk|Contribs 18:19, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Seattle Sounders FC is an association football (soccer) team that plays in the highest league in North America (Major League Soccer). Want to learn about a great success story, on and off the field, in a relatively young league? Then follow the link and start reviewing!

Cptnono, George and I have worked with Awadewit to get her approval before re-nominating the article. almost-instinct has also done a thorough copyedit at the suggestion of Awadewit. Thanks go to both Awadewit and almost-instinct for their phenomenal help in cleaning up the prose of the article. SkotyWATalk|Contribs 18:19, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Support This is a comprehensive and well-written article on a sports team. While the article focuses a lot on the history of the team, that is because it is so new, so I feel the balance is appropriate. The prose is accessible to the layperson, like myself, who only discusses soccer a few times a year, at family gatherings. :) Awadewit (talk) 18:31, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Support - neets FA criteria, a well written and interesting read. Dincher (talk) 18:33, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Images were checked at the last FAC and no new ones have been added. Awadewit (talk) 18:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Sources: I have actually read every source that this article uses. In my opinion, they all meet WP:RS and are used appropriately. Awadewit (talk) 18:41, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Support - Much better, good work to all involved.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 11:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Comment – Based on the small amount I read, the prose does look much improved from the last FAC. However, I did spot a glaring redundancy in the first sentence: "Seattle Sounders FC is a Major League Soccer soccer team based in Seattle, Washington." The second "soccer" has no reason to be there, and I'm sure a better spot could be found for the link there.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 16:13, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the reason that slipped through all of the copy edits is because the acronym specification "(MLS)" appears between the two appearances of "soccer". Thank you for pointing it out though.  I've cleaned it up.  --SkotyWATalk|Contribs 20:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support – I finally got a chance to read through the entire article, and the only real flaw I found was that several references from newspapers didn't have the publisher in italics. I fixed them myself, though, because there weren't that many to do and it wasn't worth complaining about them here. Everything else looks great. The entire article is vastly better than it was during the first FAC, and all the standards are met.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 01:35, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Support per my involvement in the Peer Review and previous FAC. WFCforLife (talk) 05:23, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Support I'm biased but this article is awesome. The recent input from Awadewit was fantastic. Cptnono (talk) 09:44, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - See previous FACs for reasons of my support. Merry Christmas! – ĈĠ, Super Sounders Fan  (help line|§|sign here) 00:50, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
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