Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Scotland national football team 1872–1914 results/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 Dabomb87 22:25, 14 March 2011.

Scotland national football team 1872–1914 results

 * Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:19, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Based on the format of existing FL List of Montserrat national football team results, I hope that this historical list meets the requirements. All the best everyone :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:19, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Quick question, any reason for the cut-off at 1899? Are you planning (suggesting?) a 1900 to 1949 list, a 1950 to 1999 list, a 2000 onwards list or something else? I only asked because I'm sure someone else will, in due course...! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * See Scotland national football team results, many of these lists already exist, though none until now have graced FL's door. Courcelles 21:25, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I found that afterwards. Seems a little odd on the current split (for me) I suppose.  The next 1900-1919 list has just 36 games in and stops in 1914 because of the First World War.  Consider the fact we have some Medal of Honor lists or Knights Cross lists (or Prem League hat-tricks...!) with well over 100 entries.  I guess it's fine, I just wondered if we really needed so many lists... The Rambling Man (talk) 21:28, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm quite happy/prepared to merge this one with the 1900-1919 list if it's deemed necessary. That would give a list with just over 100 entries, which seems to be about as many as we'd want to have on one list, and encompass all pre-WW1 matches, which seems a natural split.  To clarify, I didn't create any of these articles, so I can't say on what basis the split was originally worked out..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:32, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, I understand. Let's see how it goes.  The Rambling Man (talk) 22:07, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Comments:

Nergaal (talk) 17:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * much better now that it is merged
 * lead should talk about some of the huge attendances (five games had over 100k spectators!)
 * Done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:25, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * since essentially most of these games were played in the British championship, there should be a table with the statistics on the placing Scotland got in these editions (how many times it finished 1st, 1-2, 2nd, 1-3, 2-3, 4th, etc.
 * Done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:32, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I still think the article should clearly point out that Scotland was the best rated team then (officially or not, it WAS)
 * My point, though, is that at the time Scotland was not rated the best team in the world, because the ratings did not exist and such things simply were not discussed back then. Only well over 100 years later did someone decide that they had been the best rated team in this era.  I'll see what other people think, but personally I don't believe it belongs in the article....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, sod it, I'll put it in -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:36, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I am leaning towards support. Nergaal (talk) 04:56, 4 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Support – Read through the list and spotted no problems.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 23:24, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support I made one small fix as I read, but this is in good shape. Courcelles 12:16, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support all good. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:48, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


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