Talk:Tampines Rovers FC
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[edit] Why I reverted ArielGold's changes to the History section
I reverted ArielGold's changes to the "History" section. Her changes to other sections were left untouched, as I did not write the other sections. Since edit summaries cannot exceed 400 characters, I could not explain my reversion in my edit summary, and have decided to explain it on the talk page instead:
- The word "designated" appears to be used incorrectly. If Tampines were placed in the league system for the first time, "designated" would be the right word to use, but the Stags have been in the league system since 1974. Perhaps ArielGold did not understand what actually happened. Tampines were relegated from the first tier of Singaporean league football to the second tier at the end of the 1988 season. The first tier used to be called NFL Division I and the second tier NFL Division II. However, the start of the 1988 season saw the newly-formed FAS Premier League become the first tier of Singaporean league football, making the NFL Division I the second tier.
- ArielGold's edit summary suggests that some of her changes were intended to make the article more NPOV. However, those changes were made to topic sentences, where more leeway with NPOV and referencing are given. It is not POV for a topic sentence to say that a movie received positive reviews if the other sentences in the paragraph quote positive reviews. Similarly, if a topic sentence says that a certain decade was a football club's most successful period, and the other sentences indicate that they won 15 trophies during that decade, and only 5 others throughout the rest of their history, I don't think the topic sentence is POV. The need for NPOV must be balanced with the need to keep the prose refreshing, use different sentence structures and avoid proseline. (That being said, if a topic sentence said that performances "fell disastrously short of expectations", I would have no problem with the word "disastrously" being removed.)
- As for her change of "two decades" to "twenty years", I am not sure which is correct. Feel free to change "two decades" back to "twenty years" again if the latter is grammatically correct.
--J.L.W.S. The Special One 09:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
