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History of FC Barcelona

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After a thorough copyedit and a good PR a month ago, I believe this is not overly far from FA. Any suggestions for further improvement before FAC would be welcomed!

Thanks, Sandman888 (talk) 18:14, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for all of your work on FC Barcelone articles. I think this has enough probloems / issues that it would face some opposition at FAC, so here are some suggestions for improvement with FAC in mind.

Lead

I am not sure the first sentence meets WP:LEAD, which says The article should begin with a declarative sentence telling the nonspecialist reader what (or who) is the subject. The first sentence is fine for an article on FC Barcelona, but does not really mention the history aspect (which is the subject here).
Per WP:MOSQUOTE single quotes should not be used except within a longer quotations, so use "double quotes" in FC Barcelona, also known simply as 'Barcelona' and familiarly as 'Barça,' is a football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. for "Barcelona" and "Barça"
The lead should be a summary of the article and as a summary should not contain anything in the body of the article. The lead says The team was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Spanish footballers ... but the article does not repeat this that I could see and does not identify the nationalities of the founders, though one can guess based on their names.
I am also not sure that the lead is an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way, but I am not sure the current lead really summarizes the whole article. For example, Núñez is not mentioned in the lead.
The link to Sextuple tells the reader nothing about this team or even football
Could more be said about the lead image? What year was it designed? What are the siginficance of the bat and the crown? I think it is the first crest that was replaced in 1909, but there is nothing in the text that I can see about the first crest.
I think it is usually better to use specific dates than vague general terms, so I would fix To this date, Barcelona has never been relegated from La Liga, a record ... to something like As of 2010, Barcelona has never been relegated from La Liga...

Birth (1899–1922)

Birth seems an odd word choice for starting a team, and 23 years is an awfully long time to take being born. Would another section title work better? Perhaps something like "Founding and early years (1899–1922)" or maybe "Founding and amateur club (1899-1922)"?
I think the article also needs to use an en–dash instead of a hyphen in the dates, but I am not always sure on this.
I do not know much about the club, but I still had some questions about the founding even after reading this section. What was Gamper's background, why was he in Barcelona, and why did he want to found a football club there? We are told he is from Basel and there is a mention that he was a Swiss champion in the ad, but the article says little about him.
I also was not clear about the financial status of the club in this section - the next section makes it clear that the club first became professional in 1923, but what were the financial needs before this? Why did the club nearly go bankrupt? Or what did the members do and how much did they pay to be members? All the article says here is Gamper simultaneously launched a campaign to recruit more club members, and, by 1922, the club had over 20,000 members, who helped finance a new stadium. butthis does little to explain what the members were before this.
Watch WP:OVERLINKing - Joan Gamper is linked twice in this section, and things like rights and freedoms, which most readers understand without a link, are linked later.
I think this still needs a copyedit - During the Gamper lead era, Barcelona won eleven Campeonato de Cataluña,.. should be "Gamper-led era" or even just the "Gamper era"

Rivera, Republic and Civil War (1923–1957)

WP:HEAD says not to capitalize words in headers after the first word, unless they are normally capitalized. Are all of these words normally capitalized?
WP:MOSIMAGE says in part ...images should not be reversed simply to resolve a conflict between these guidelines; doing so misinforms the reader for the sake of our layout preferences. An image should be reversed or substantially altered only if this clearly assists the reader (for example, cropping a work of art to focus on a detail discussed in the text). Any such alteration must be noted in the caption. Why doesn't the article just use File:Alberti002.jpg and left justify it? Then the bombing pic could be on the right and the next part is already on the left again.
Needs a ref Despite the difficult political situation, CF Barcelona enjoyed considerable success during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1945, with Josep Samitier as coach and players like César, Ramallets and Velasco, they won La Liga for the first time since 1929. They added two more titles in 1948 and 1949. In 1949, they also won the first Copa Latina. In June 1950, Barcelona signed Ladislao Kubala, who was to be an influential figure at the club.
Why is it "Las Cortes" and italicized in the first section, but Les Corts and not italicized in this section?

Club de Fútbol Barcelona (1957–1978)

Again, why is Camp Nou itlicized here and not elsewhere? The completion of the Camp Nou, finished in 1957, meant the club had little money to spend on new players.[29]
I also think more could be said on Camp Nou - why did they decide to build it? How much did it cost, how long did it take, what szie was it when finished, etc.?
Ballon d'Or is spelled with a lower case o and should be linked.
No previous mention of the club's original official name was made, so With the end of Franco's dictatorship in 1974, the club changed its official name back to Futbol Club Barcelona and reverted the crest to its original design, including the original letters once again.[30][31] comes as a bit of surprise.
From 1978 on, there are no images besides three starting lineup diagrams. There are many images that would be better than these. I like File:Campnou colors.jpg for one.

The 2000-2010 section seems overly long for one decade compared to the other sections which are multiple decades - see WP:WEIGHT and WP:RECENT

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Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:55, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]