Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Manchester United FC

Manchester United FC

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new nomination underneath. To do this, see the instructions at TFAR nom/doc.

The result was: not scheduled by Wehwalt (talk) 15:02, 29 November 2022 (UTC)



Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system. Nicknamed the Red Devils, it was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed its name to Manchester United in 1902. The club moved from Newton Heath to its current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.

Manchester United have won a record 20 League titles, 12 FA Cups, five League Cups, and a record 21 FA Community Shields. They have won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League three times, and the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup once each. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, 10 years after eight of the club's players were killed in the Munich air disaster, they became the first English club to win the European Cup.
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 * Promoted: July 27, 2010
 * Reasons for nomination: 120th anniversary of the name "Manchester United" (Should have had a nomination on April if that was specified, but since the nomination didn't get nominated in April, it should be the featured article for 23 December 2022)
 * Support as nominator. SpyridisioAnnis Discussion 03:46, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As far as I'm concerned reruns should only be either when there's been such significant developments that the page is de facto a different topic to that which ran before, or when the date significance is so significant that the topic in question is likely to have substantially elevated public interest; neither is the case here. I'd also be very wary of showcasing this particular article at present; the club is currently the subject both of some fairly foul-tempered negoriations regarding its ownership, and serious internal ructions within the team and management structure, and as such the BLP considerations are way more elevated than would usually be the case. &#8209; Iridescent 07:16, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose: To the best of my understanding, the queue for December has already completed and the focus is on January now. Aoba47 (talk) 17:30, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Coordinator comment We've torn up the schedule for good cause before, but I'm not sure there's good cause here. It's not a major anniversary or one that would be apparent to the reader. We're also running a football article for the final game of the World Cup on December 18. A club with the history of MU can surely find a better date for the last time this article may run per the rules. I'm also minded of the opposes above. I'll wait to close this to hear what might have to say.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:53, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification. Aoba47 (talk) 22:40, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * , SpyridisioAnnis has been indeffed for disruptive editing. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:30, 29 November 2022 (UTC)