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2001–02 Gillingham F.C. season

Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi everyone, after some time away (partly down to being unable to access newspapers.com through TWL) I am back with yet another article on a Gillingham F.C. season. I attended most of the matches mentioned herein, and my two abiding memories of this season are being enthusiastically hugged by a total stranger when Gillingham equalised for the second time against Arsenal and the moment when a Crewe player took a penalty kick so bad that the ball hit a house outside the stadium. Feedback as ever will be most gratefully received and swiftly acted upon! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image review - pass

The article contains the following images:

All images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution. They are all relevant to the article and placed at appropriate locations. All images have alt-text but I'm not 100 % happy with some of the alt-texts. For example, the alt-text of "Jlloyd_Samuel.jpg" says "Football Jlloyd Samuel". This should presumably be "Footballer". This is also a problem for some of the other photos of the players. I would include a description of the medium, i.e. "Photo of...". The alt-text of "AndyHess2009.jpg" says "Footballer...". In this context, would it be better to describe him as a manager? The captions are fine. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:12, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Phlsph7: - I tweaked most of the alts, let me know what you think -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:50, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that resolves the concerns. Phlsph7 (talk) 15:19, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Eem dik doun in toene

"of the campaign for a transfer fee" ==> maybe add a comma between "campaign" and "for"
"in the UK" ==> in the United Kingdom
"After a 2–1 defeat at home to Coventry City" ==> home can be linked earlier (e.g., at "The highest attendance recorded at the club's home ground" (lede) and "in a 5–0 victory for the home team")
"distance of nearly 40 yards" ==> also convert this to metres
"Jason Brown (pictured in 2005)" ==> this picture is from 2015
"A week later, they lost 3–1" ==> A week later, Gillingham lost 3–1
The image captions of "Gillingham were eliminated from the FA Cup at Arsenal Stadium." and "Gillingham won at the Kassam Stadium, home of Oxford United, with a goal in the final minute of extra time." could both do with a "(pictured in ....)"
"and the championship of the Premier League" ==> I would shorten it to just "and the Premier League"
"and avoiding relegation only" ==> "and avoided relegation only"
Another great read! Had to chuckle when reading that part about the Crewe penalty miss. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 18:36, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Eem dik doun in toene: - many thanks for your review, all addressed now I think! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:45, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support - Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 20:27, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support from NØ

You can remove these commas

"It was the 70th season in which Gillingham competed in the Football League, and the 52nd since the club was voted back into the league in 1950."
"Gillingham began December with a 2–2 draw away to Nottingham Forest with two goals from Shaw, and extended their unbeaten run to eight games by beating Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 at Priestfield on 15 December"
"BBC Sport acknowledged that Gillingham had exceeded expectations in their first campaign in the First Division, but predicted that the team had"
"Brown had joined the club a year earlier, but had never previously been able to displace Bartram from the team"

""On 19 March, Onoura scored an early goal against Norwich City and Brown saved a penalty kick to ensure that Gillingham were in the lead at half-time" - Add a comma after "Norwich City"--N Ø 02:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MaranoFan: - all done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - pass

There is even sentence-case formatting in the references.
Is there a replacement for the Evening Standard? (WP:STANDARDUK)
Spotchecks:

ref 2 - verifies the claim
ref 25 - verifies that Gillingham is third in the table and the only team with a GA of 0
ref 26 - verifies that West Brom won 1-0 over Gillingham
ref 32 - verifies Grimsby Town losing
ref 76 - verifies there were promotion hopes for Millwall which ended due to the 1–0 Gillingham victory

The Athletic (ref 115) should probably be marked limited access.--N Ø 02:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @MaranoFan: Athletic ref amended. Re: the Standard, I think a Standard source from 2001 would probably be OK. The comments at WP:STANDARDUK seem to centre on its being a free newspaper. This has only been the case since 2009. But I replaced it anyway..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - That makes sense to me. The paper it has been replaced with is reliable too, though, so the source review passes. Great article!--N Ø 07:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Alavense

This edit by the bot made you lose some of the edits you'd made earlier. You might want to check them.
Following a 2–0 victory over Portsmouth on 26 December - Can it be stated that this was the home game with the highest attendance of the season?
Following a 2–0 victory over Portsmouth on 26 December, Gillingham's final game of 2001 was three days later at home to West Bromwich Albion - The sentence as a whole reads a bit weirdly, because one would think that only the second match was played at home.
I'd include the {{Abbr}} template for both "No." and "Apps" in the table.

That's what I saw. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 07:52, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alavense: - all done. Thanks in particular for picking up that first one, no idea quite what happened there..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I guess you ran the bot, it took its time and in the meantime you made those edits, which were then lost when the bot completed its task. I enjoyed the read and the details I pointed out have been addressed, so I'm happy to support. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SC

Comments to follow. - SchroCat (talk) 07:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC) I made a few very minor tweaks here to give the proper name of the paper, but otherwise I am a Support for this. I was actually at one of the matches mentioned, which didn't turn out so well for Gillingham! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SchroCat: - hmmmm.....intriguing...... ;-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:11, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:16, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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