Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Cardiff City F.C. seasons/archive1


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

The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 23:31, 8 December 2016 (UTC).

List of Cardiff City F.C. seasons

 * Nominator(s): Kosack (talk) 17:02, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I have worked to improve it to a level that should meet the required FL criteria. I have used the List of York City F.C. seasons, List of Watford F.C. seasons and List of Birmingham City F.C. seasons pages as guides in order to improve the list. I have also received some very helpful pointers from Struway2 to bring it up to scratch. Kosack (talk) 17:02, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comments from
 * First sentence needs a source
 * "the club were granted permission to adopt the name Cardiff City" - by whom?
 * "but their relegation in 1962 lead" - spelling error
 * "the longest absence in the clubs history" - missing apostrophe
 * "22nd in the Fourth Division in the 1995–96 season" - how can this be? There was no Fourth Division in 1995-96
 * "saw them rise from the Fourth Division to the Second Division in just three seasons" - similarly, this can't be correct
 * Why are seasons before 1910 not included in the table? Is the data not available?  If so, this should be clearly stated, although I'd be surprised if there wasn't a club history book that contained the info.......
 * In note I, system is spelt wrong
 * In note J, the name of the team was Corinthian (singular)
 * In note M, "The Third Division South Cup was abandoned at the sem-final stage during the 1938–39 season following the outbreak of World War II" - how can this be? The 1938-39 season would have been long over by the time war broke out (also, semi-final is spelt wrong)
 * Note Q needs a full stop.
 * As does note T
 * Think that's it..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:52, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for reviewing the page. I've cleaned up the numerous grammar and spelling issues now. Some explanation on some of the points:
 * 2 - The club history does not say who they actually applied to, HERE. If that is an issue then I'm happy to reword that sentence to something such as "changed their name to Cardiff City".
 * 7 - Statistics for the seasons prior to 1910 seem to be non-existent as far as I can see. I own numerous club history books, including the "definitive" statistical history written by the club historian Richard Shepherd, but none of these provide any information on those seasons. The same can be said for the web sources such as the Football Club History Database and the Welsh Football Data Archive.
 * 10 - The semi-final and final were held over until the following season but never played after the war broke out. The source for that is HERE. I have tidied up the note to hopefully explain that a bit better.
 * Thanks. Kosack (talk) 12:31, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I've noticed a couple of other, fairly minor, points.....
 * In the notes, you use both "Division 1" and "Division One" (and similar) - choose one format and be consistent
 * General refs should be formatted using citation templates just like the specific ones
 * Think that's really it this time...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:54, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorted those two issues now. Thanks. Kosack (talk) 14:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Support - all looks OK now -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:39, 8 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Support all my concerns addressed. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:48, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Source review
 * Randomly crosschecked five sources, no issues with close paraphrasing
 * Ref 10 can also be found in 'general'. But because you've put it in the 'specific' section, page numbers are needed.
 * Ref 7, 8, 11, 36 need authors
 * So do "England - Southern League Final Tables", and "England – List of FA Charity/Community Shield Matches".
 * What makes 'Sporting Heroes' a high-quality, reliable source? Same question goes for Footballsite.co.uk, I'd recommend that you change both.
 * Ref 9's 'rsssf.com' should be written as 'The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation'
 * Books need publishing location
 * No dab links, or dead ones for that matter
 * Two images, both of which appropriately licensed Lemonade51 (talk) 13:30, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reviewing the page, I think I've fixed the issues you listed. Kosack (talk) 14:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Support – Still not thrilled with the symbol thing, but it's probably not worth further delaying matters. The rest of the list looks fine to me, so I'm willing to go along with the current formatting. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:09, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Double-checked that the source review responses fixed the issues, and they do, so promoting. -- Pres N  16:58, 8 December 2016 (UTC)


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