Wikipedia:Peer review/2009–10 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season/archive1

2009–10 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season
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I feel the article is good enough for GA class, I just need the PR team and others to review it. Cheers. Govvy (talk) 12:12, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Comments Comments on prose only.

General comments:
 * Seven of the outbound links don't work.
 * Too much POV.
 * Inconsistent capitalisation or style, FA Cup, FA cup, F.A. cup, etc.
 * Links to league tables each month all seem to be pointed at the same url which doesn't provide the information.
 * Consistent mis-use of commas, which is detrimental to the readability of the article.
 * Some instances of American English, not appropriate for a British topic.

Comments by section follow:


 * Lead section
 * the first sentence of the second paragraph doesn't make sense. Relative pronoun: "who embarked" instead of gerund form would help here. Parallel use of "with" in the next sentence is awkward, better to substitute for a different word.
 * Have taken out embarked alltogether. Govvy (talk) 17:47, 8 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Lead para 3, one sentence runs to six lines. Think about where you take a breath while reading it.
 * ✅ Have reworked this section. I hope it's better now. Govvy (talk) 17:47, 8 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Pre-season para starts with a 5-line sentence. This should be broken into three or four separate sentences.
 * Throughout the article there are inappropriate uses of commas when full stops should be used.
 * "permanently semi-injured" looks like POV to me.
 * "defense" is an American English term used in a British English article.
 * "2000–01 Season" shouldn't be capitalised.
 * "first friendly loss in five years" needs a supporting citation.
 * "put daylight between the two teams" doesn't look like the right kind of language for this article. Could you reword it?


 * August
 * "Tottenham began the 2009–10 season with their first home start in five years against Liverpool" is ambiguous, suggest "Tottenham began the 2009–10 season against Liverpool with their first home start in five years" and provide a citation for this.
 * "center stage" American English.
 * "tap in" should be hyphenated.
 * "to miss a number of weeks in the season" should be "of the season".
 * "confirmation was made of the signing of Croatian Niko Kranjčar from Portsmouth for a bargain £2.5 million." except the source says "about £2 million" and "bargain" is POV, change this.
 * "Walker was a free agent", had been.
 * "season long loan" should be hyphenated.
 * "young Adam Smith join Wycombe" should indicate past tense.


 * September
 * "Champions" needn't be capitalised
 * "Spurs strolled their way to victory with a 5–0 victory, Tottenham had the better of the game" It seems to be redundant to say Tottenham had the better of the game if you've already stated they won 5–0.


 * October
 * "slick football", "squirmed over the line", "with a mountain to climb" are all unsuitable, see WP:IDIOM.


 * November
 * "drew first blood" should be changed.


 * December
 * "clawed a goal back", should be changed.
 * "champions league" should be capitalised.


 * January
 * inconsistent use of Window/window. It's not a proper noun so it should not be capitalised.
 * "joined the club on loan from his parent club AS Monaco on a loan deal" needless repetition of "loan". Consider rewording.
 * "The only other outright leaving in January" I think you mean "departure"?
 * "The loans continues thirteen days later" should be in the past tense.
 * "relegation battling Portsmouth" should be hyphenated.
 * "Tottenham scored early with Peter Crouch scoring" repetition of "score", consider rephrasing.


 * February
 * "Tottenham, then, travelled" no commas here.
 * "fourth Champions League place" this is ambiguous. I think you mean fourth place in the (Premier) League, which is the fourth qualifying position for the Champions League.


 * March
 * "The first-half played out on level pegging", "Stoke clawed their way back into the game", these are further examples of WP:IDIOM.
 * "a fine strike from ex-Tottenham Hotspur player Bobby Zamora" POV.
 * "Spurs rung the changes" the past of "ring" is "rang".


 * April
 * "on the back of 5 straight league victories" use "five". Also needs a citation for "the first time this had happened since April 2007".
 * "stabbing home for close range" two things with this, firstly it's somewhat POV but also should be "from" not "for".
 * "Substitute Peter Crouch" not part of his identity, "substitute" is the correct version here.
 * "Following this was the FA cup semi-final at Wembley." unnecessary cleft sentence, better to use "The FA Cup semi-final at Wembley followed."
 * "Peter Crouch had a goal wrongly ruled out in the second half of extra time" massive POV here, the reference says that the referee adjudged that there had been a foul. Read the match report and try to put it in a non-POV manner.
 * "last minute penalty" should be hyphenated.
 * "F.A. Cup" write this consistently, FA Cup.
 * "amazing fashion", "wonder volley", "miraculous saves", not very objective terms.
 * "Nani chip" - not sure? a Nani chip? Nani's chip? A chipped shot from Nani?


 * May
 * "1st day of the month" first.
 * "a game which could have possibly decided the fate of the final place" could have possibly? How about "had the potential to decide…"

That's all from me. Thanks, C 679 12:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)