Talk:History of Aston Villa F.C. (1874–1961)

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[edit] GA review comments

Hello. Thanks for the request to perform the GA, my pleasure. Here are my comments.

• First, the title, I'm an "en-dash" stickler, so it should be "...(1874–1961)..." so you should move the page.
  • Done
• There's no actual link to Aston Villa F.C. in the text!
  • Done
• Linking match to game seems pointless, you're better off linking rugby.
  • Done
• Lead feels too long for the rest of the article.
• For the FA Cup wins, in the lead, link to the FA Cup finals rather than that year in football.
• You linked First World War but not Second. Why?
  • Done
• "...were to slide into a period of turmoil." - bit POV, stick to the facts.
  • Done
• Don't like the section headings with "(year-year)" - I wouldn't put the year in at all.
  • I have removed them now. They have a long and complicated history. They were a compromise, see the archives of Aston Villa F.C. for the history.
• Indent all Main article:... by one colon.
  • They now both use the {{main}} template. Indentation is as per the template default.
• "They were looking for something to keep them occupied during the winter." - says who?
  • Says the reference at the end of the sentence after that one.
• "...teams did. So he wrote..." - is this one sentence or two? I'd avoid starting with "So...".
  • Reworded
• "The reason the Football League was never called the English League is because McGregor intended Scottish and Welsh teams were to join eventually.[10] Welsh teams (most notably Cardiff City) did so,[11] but Scottish teams did not." - this reads awkwardly, rephrase.
  • Completely agree and completely reworded.
• You may like to check but I don't think runners-up and one-sided need en-dash, just a hyphen, check out WP:DASH. At the same time, check seasons do use en-dash, I've seen one 1909-10 instead of 1909–10.
  • Yep done, i thought i had caught all of the rogue endashes during my run-through. A previous editor had erroneuously replaced all hyphens with endashes, sorted now
• Link all football seasons where you can.
  • Thought they were. They are now, upto a point. (ie once in each section)
• Citations should be placed per WP:CITE, immediately following punctuation.
• What is the meaning of "(link)"?
  • Removed done a proper link
• "...called Villa's golden age..." by whom? If citable then perhaps "...Villa's "Golden Age"..." and reference.
  • Changed it to golden Era as that is mentioned on the official club website
• "...something of a pinnacle though as Villa had poor League finishes of sixth and tenth..." - POV - since when was sixth poor? Needs neutral perspective.
  • Removed POV statement
• I think you need a See also section for your link to the next phase of Villa history. Actually, you don't need it at all, it's in the Villa template.

So I think there's some way to go. I'll fail for now, but please please let me know if I can help further. The Rambling Man 21:55, 26 October 2007 (UTC) Think that is all done now Everlast¹⁹¹⁰ 16:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The external link to the English double has got to go. Pipe link it to the Double wikilink you've already got. The Rambling Man 17:02, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Further comments

• Image:Mcgregor.jpg doesn't seem to have fair use rationale for this, or the other articles it's used in.
  • I have added the rationale to the image page but it won't stretch to using it here so i have commented it out. I think it falls outside of pd-70 but i am trying to find the initial publishing date. Good catch!
    • Keep pursuing that pd-70, it's a good image... The Rambling Man 19:01, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
• Six sections seems excessive now, especially since there's only nine paragraphs in the main part of the article. Consider merging some paragraphs.
  • Personally, i think the article finally has a good structure to it. The sections reasonably split up the text and the time period and i think trying to merge paragraphs and therefore sections would be more detrimental, than helpful.
• "This included the League and Cup Double in 1896–97 a feat which would not be repeated for more than 60 years." - should be easy to cite this.
  • You would think so...
• "...an infamous 1–7 defeat..." - why infamous? Can you cite this?
  • Nope so removed the infamous.
• "...when after eight games,..." missing comma after when I think.
  • Yep
• "...a relatively successful one." hmm, relative to what? Difficult this one. I'd urge a rephrase.
  • Rephrased
• "(2 Oct 1997)" - I'd prefer "(2 October 1997)".
  • Fixed

Nearly there. The Rambling Man 18:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA, at last!

Okay, apologies for the delay, as you may have noticed, I've been on a template rampage. Anyway, you'll be glad to know that I'm passing the article to WP:GA with immediate effect. Good work guys. The Rambling Man 17:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)