Template:Did you know nominations/Billy Barnes (footballer)

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 14:43, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Billy Barnes (footballer) edit

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... that association footballer Billy Barnes (pictured) scored the winning goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final for Sheffield United, before going on to play in the first Charity Shield match for QPR?

Reviewed: Hanson Industries (ski boots)

Created/expanded by Miyagawa (talk). Self nom at 23:02, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

If the reviewer thinks it makes it sound too much like he did it all in one afternoon, we can drop the hook after "Sheffield United" and just keep it short. Miyagawa (talk) 23:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

As the creator of the original stub article (nearly 5 years ago) it's good to see it expanded. The article could do with further expansion to cover his West Ham career (for which I have added a link) and his time as a manager at Athletic Bilbao. As he won three cup medals in his time there, this ought to be included. (I could add it myself, but I'm not sure that I am allowed to add a substantial amount of text to an article I am reviewing for DyK. I could also expand the details of his Cup Final goal. I'll come back to this once (if) the article is promoted for DyK.) As the article stands, it just qualifies in terms of size; it is clearly a 5x expansion and I make the character count 1510. The hook facts are properly cited (AgF on the QPR career); as I'm not sure that Spartacus is accepted as a reliable source, I have added another offline source. Can I suggest a slight tweak to the hook:

ALT1 - ... that footballer Billy Barnes (pictured) scored the winning goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final for Sheffield United and played in the first Charity Shield match for QPR in 1908? -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 07:49, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I've happy with the alt and thanks for adding the offline source to support the Sparticus site. I've got several more expansions planned after getting ahold of that QPR records book. Miyagawa (talk) 14:29, 19 January 2012 (UTC)