Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Manon Melis

Manon Melis

 * 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.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 2, 2021 by Wehwalt (talk) 18:13, 3 November 2021 (UTC)



Manon Melis (born 31 August 1986) is a Dutch manager of women's football development at Feyenoord and a former professional footballer who played as a forward. She spent most of her professional career playing in the Swedish league Damallsvenskan, which she won three times with her club LdB FC Malmö, in 2010, 2011, and 2013. Melis also won the Swedish Supercup with Malmö in 2011, and was the Damallsvenskan top scorer three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2011. At age 17, Melis made her debut for the Netherlands national team in 2004. Her goalscoring helped the Dutch qualify for their first major tournament, the UEFA Women's Euro 2009, where they reached the semi-finals. In the tournament, she scored a crucial goal in the final group game against Denmark to send her team into the knockout stage. When she retired from playing international football in 2016, she had earned 136 caps and scored 59 goals. She was the all-time top goal scorer for the Netherlands national team from 2010 to 2019.
 * Most recent similar article(s): 22 August 2021
 * Main editors: Edwininlondon
 * Promoted: 13 October 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: Trying to minimise the gap: we have more men's than women's bios as TFA
 * Support as nominator. Edwininlondon (talk) 08:58, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. It would be nice to get more bios about women on the front page, and this FA was recently promoted so I do not think there should be any concerns about quality. Aoba47 (talk) 02:26, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Support - very detailed and well written, women's football bios are under-represented on TFA Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:02, 26 October 2021 (UTC)