Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach/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 The Rambling Man via FACBot (talk) 23:31, 16 March 2017 (UTC).

List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach

 * Nominator(s): Hmlarson (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because... Wambach retired last year and the list is finalized. Hmlarson (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Comment this nomination appears to have stalled. I would recommend the nominator(s) work on gaining extra reviews or I'll close this in seven days time. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:15, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll post a request. Will this deadline also be applied to the other FL candidates that have been open two months (namely List of international goals scored by Fernando Torres, List of Celtic F.C. managers, List of Alien characters, List of teams and cyclists in the 2014 Tour de France, List of Cardiff City F.C. players)? Hmlarson (talk) 00:54, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * If no activity occurs on those nominations for three weeks, yes. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:17, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * What else is needed ? Previous suggestions have been incorporated.Hmlarson (talk) 04:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Well you need some community "support" for its promotion. There currently exists not one !vote either for or against this list's successful nomination.  The Rambling Man (talk) 10:10, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I give my support to this article certainly, nicely done. R96Skinner (talk) 22:31, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you . Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Support. Great work with this list. - AffeL (talk) 15:55, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you . Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Support Great Job! Eddie891 (talk) 17:15, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you . Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Support
 * a retired professional soccer player who played as a forward - is there no way to avoid having "player" and "played" so close to each other?
 * Changed to "competed". Hmlarson (talk) 17:21, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Why does "158 international goals" link to United States women's national soccer team?
 * Updated broken link to subsection Hmlarson (talk) 17:21, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 *  In her 255 appearances for the senior national team, she scored 184 goals and currently holds the world record for international goals scored by both female and male soccer players. - I believe this should be split up. As someone who doesn't know much about soccer, I would appreciate more explanation here on the title, namely international (explaining the US's team in global soccer) and goals (I went ahead and linked it to here).
 * I've changed the wording slightly from "international goals" to "goals scored at the international level". Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Make sure all numbers in the article have non-breaking spaces if they are in numeric form. 184 goals, for example.
 * Updated two instances in lead ("184 goals" and "14 goals"). Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * She completed her international career having scored a total of 14 goals in her 25 World Cup match appearances, placing her second on the all-time World Cup scoring list behind Marta - as a general prose note in the 2nd and 3rd paragraph, you could use more variety from "her" and "she" with a few "Wambach"es. (possibly the first time Wambaches has appeared digitally)
 * Updated. Hmlarson (talk) 17:21, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * "diving headers" - in the event someone who didn't know soccer read this article, they might not know what this is, especially since there isn't a Wikipedia article on it. Could you explain it a bit more?
 * Linked to Header (association football) which details that headers "can be done by standing, jumping or diving position". Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * ""Wambach scored the equalizer in stoppage time helping the Americans to eventually progress to the World Cup final against Japan after defeating Brazil following a penalty shootout." - the sentence needs more structure (commas, prepositions), link "stoppage time". I got to the next sentence before realizing what the term meant, use a verb other than "helping", and put the World Cup bit in a separate sentence.
 * Restructured. Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * There is a bit of overlinking in the "International goals" section. *Why is "2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament" red-linked once, while other places are inconsistently linked.
 * Modified. If you are looking at the table with the competitions column sorted, there will be duplicate links for goals scored on the same day. You can double-check this by looking when the column is not sorted. Some links for the Algarve Cup Group stage competitions, link to specific games within the Group Stage. Although they have Group Stage as the link text, they are actually different anchor (subsection) links. Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * What does the "Cap" section mean?
 * Added sentence above table. Hmlarson (talk) 17:21, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * How is the "score" column sorted? Likewise, "result"? And what is the difference?
 * This description is included above table. Hmlarson (talk) 17:21, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

It's a very well-done list, and I believe my comments should be easy to address. Good work on an article related to in important soccer player! ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 22:34, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the time to review and provide feedback. I've updated the article and added comments above. Hmlarson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the quick reply! I'm happy to support now. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 03:35, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Support - although I did a fair amount in the list, this was restricted entirely to formatting to align the list with other top goalscorer featured lists. None of the hard work to actually collate the information was performed by me, so think it appropriate to throw my weight behind this if it helps get it over the line to FL status. Fenix down (talk) 14:55, 14 March 2017 (UTC)


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