Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Swedish football champions/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal 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 removed by Dabomb87 18:44, 2 January 2010.

List of Swedish football champions

 * Notified WikiProject Sweden, WikiProject Football and User:Johan Elisson.

This February 2006 promotion shows its age in a couple of key ways. First, more inline references are required for the text and footnotes, and I'm not knowledgeable on whether or not a couple of the provided general references are from reliable sources, not being up on my Swedish. The lead consists of exactly one sentence, before a longer History section; I see no reason that the two couldn't be merged to produce an appropriately sized lead. In addition, the image needs alt text and the tables could easily be made sortable.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 21:17, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delist The issue of sourcing should be addressed first. Right now it's very hard to verify any information. -- Cheetah  (talk)  07:16, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist per the two above. A lot of work needed. Wizardman  18:27, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * Alt text and lead length been resolved.
 * The lead however does need citing, and my Swedish won't suffice either.
 * Of the general references, one is the Swedish Football Association, while the SFS is a professional publication. The other one seems superfluous to requirements and can probably be removed.
 * The RSSSF will probably have something useful.
 * Sorting seems straightforward (especially compared to my last couple of efforts). I will make the changes, once there is an indication here as to whether the four lists of champions should be merged or kept separate.

In summary, once the lead is cited and the visibly striking yet very easily dealt-with sorting problem resolved, I do not see a problem with this list. A few more pictures would be desirable, but I'm sure that can also be fairly easily resolved. In the interests of countering systemic bias, I've left a couple of carefully targetted notes on the Swedish wikipedia, in the hope that an English-speaking Swedish football fan will consider stepping in. I would ask that the directors consider waiting for another week before delisting this, as while the deficiencies are important, I think they are solveable (with the right linguistic skills) and that we should not give up through apathy. WFCforLife (talk) 00:17, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist, there doesn't seem to be any interest in solving the problems that I can't remedy. If someone decides they want to take this up to FL standard in future, feel free to contact me for help or advise. WFCforLife (talk) 02:08, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
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