Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Scotland national football team 1920–39 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 archived by SchroCat 07:54, 13 October 2015.

Scotland national football team 1920–39 results

 * Nominator(s): Jmorrison230582 (talk) 18:15, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it meets the criteria. I am working towards getting all of the Scotland results lists to FL, using the existing FL Scotland national football team 1872–1914 results as a basis to work from. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 18:15, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * It's looking good now, but just one final comment. The by opponent and by season tables need to meet MOS:DTT as well. NapHit (talk) 13:39, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Comments from Mattythewhite
 * I'm not sure about the current title format. I think Scotland national football team results (1920–39) would read better, and follows the format of featured lists like List of Birmingham City F.C. players (25–99 appearances).
 * I think that would need to go to a move discussion, because it affects other teams with similar articles. Isn't there a guideline which suggests that natural disambiguation should be used where possible (i.e. avoiding the use of brackets)?
 * Yes, it would probably be best to leave the naming of the title until after this FLC closes. Mattythewhite (talk) 15:23, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Image is lacking alt text.
 * Tooltips for "Att." and "Ref."?
 * I'd agree with pipeing the scorers.
 * Agreed. I will put in an initial if there are examples of common surnames.


 * Also, I would unlink them after their first instance, as this column is not sortable.
 * Agreed.


 * Is it worth noting who scored the own goal in the match played on 12 April 1924?


 * Done.


 * The "Record by opponent" and "British Home Championship record by season" aren't referenced.
 * Reference added for the BHC results. I doubt if there would be a reference available for record by opponent by a specific time period. Remove, or is it just a case of WP:CALC?
 * Couldn't you use the three RSSSF refs you used for the results? Mattythewhite (talk) 19:29, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 18:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your edits and feedback. Some comments above. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 19:02, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * think it is worth mentioning that during this period, Scotland was listed among the top teams worldwide according to the Elo ratings. World Football Elo Ratings says it was #4 and #7 by decade. Nergaal (talk) 22:34, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, I think it should be pointed out somewhere that Scotland had not played a single game from 1914 until 1920, and perhaps who were some of the notable players in this period (top goalscorers?). Nergaal (talk) 17:39, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Comments Otherwise a nice list. P.S. I agree with the proposed page move as well... The Rambling Man (talk) 08:59, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Second sentence of lead has too many clauses for easy reading.
 * Minor issue, you use FIFA in FIFA World Cup before you use FIFA on its own.
 * For sortable consistency, all goalscorers should be linked each time.
 * Grunewaldstadion is piped to Olympic Stadium (Berlin) which redirects to Olympiastadion (Berlin).
 * I don't see a need for the "Overall record" table for British Home Championship, it adds no value.
 * Ref 3 and Ref 8 need an endash in the title.
 * You could put a couple of images in the white space to the right of the two summary tables, brighten things up a bit.
 * Record by season table really only needs sourcing once, not every line.


 * – SchroCat (talk) 08:10, 13 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.