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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 18:22, 5 January 2010 [1].

List of Montserrat national football team results edit

Nominator(s): -- BigDom 11:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I am nominating this for featured list because I believe that it meets all of the FL criteria. The list provides a comprehensive and complete history of the results of the Montserrat national football team. Look forward to all of your comments, thanks in advance for your time. -- BigDom 11:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the key section should come before the actual list and should be in table form. "In the "Score" column, Monserrat's score is shown first." should be a footnote—Chris!c/t 19:41, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have put the key first and used a footnote, but from previous experience at FL I'm afraid I don't agree about having the key in table format so I've not done that. -- BigDom 12:51, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Many FLs have the key in table format in case you didn't notice. But I guess that is just personal preference, so feel free to leave that alone.—Chris!c/t 18:32, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I meant in my own experience here, I haven't had to put any keys in a table format. Like you say, it's just personal preference so I may as well leave it as it is. -- BigDom 23:21, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I support—Chris!c/t 01:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 18:34, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comments - nice to see a niche list here!
  • No image? Not even something vaguely Montserrat-ian?
  • Hmm, I haven't found any uncopyrighted ones up to now, but I'll keep looking. Have left a Photo request on the list's talk page. -- BigDom
  • "football on the island is governed by the Montserrat Football Association " - surely not all football? Perhaps official competitive football?
  • "They are affiliated..." singular "association", plural "they are"...?
  • "has to date" can we be more specific?
  • Changed to "as of December 2009" -- BigDom
  • "The side lost their..." you've just mentioned Anguilla, be careful we don't run the risk of confusion over which "side" you're referring to.
  • Changed to "Montserrat" -- BigDom
  • "for another three" perhaps "for a further three"?
  • You could link "lowest-ranked" to the FIFA rankings article.
  • There's already a link to that article in the same paragraph, so didn't want to overlink. -- BigDom
  • Per above, you use "to date" and "most recent" quite a bit, it'd be handy to have a timeframe on this.
  • Have put a timeframe on them all -- BigDom
  • "won just two" I think use of "just" is vaguely POV, I'd stick to the bare facts.
  • "record high rank of #196.[6]" - record-high, and perhaps it'd be useful to put this into context as you haven't previously stated what bottom of the rankings is in numerical terms (i.e. #200? #250?).
  • "1996–" would prefer "1996–present"?
  • GF I count 15, not 16 in your summary table.
  • Also make GA 112, but it is getting late..
  • Ahh, the GF and GA were right, but I'd left a team out of the table. It's right now -- BigDom
  • FIFA needs linking in the references for our non-footballing readers.

The Rambling Man (talk) 16:42, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments, have addressed them accordingly. -- BigDom 18:16, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comments Support
  • next seven matches, before → next seven matches before
  • What does becoming a FIFA member have to do with the volcano?
  • Split into two sentences -- BigDom
  • The friendly match, between the two lowest-ranked teams in the world, ended → The friendly match between the two lowest-ranked teams in the world ended
  • Is is necessary to say "As a full FIFA member", or can it just say "FIFA"? Was it only a partial member before?
  • I think record tables tend to be WLD rather than WDL.
    • The nominator is from the UK, and in the UK (and in fact pretty much everywhere outside the USA) sports tables are always shown in the WDL format -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:00, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yeah, I've always seen tables as WDL so I guess this one's just personal preference -- BigDom
        • Not wishing to pile-on, but yes, WDL is conventional in the UK and even in US publications about European football like Serie A. The Rambling Man (talk) 23:38, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Notes A, B, C, D, and E are redundant to the lead or unnecessary because they can easily be inferred from the table.

Nice list overall. Reywas92Talk 03:09, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks for the tips, I have addressed them all now. -- BigDom 08:55, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

  • Spell out CONCACAF and FIFA.
  • No need for duplicate World Cup links in the lead.
  • but were beaten 1–6 on aggregate by Dominican Republic in the First Qualifying Round." Add "the" before Dominican Republic.
  • "becoming worst-ranked side in the world." Add "the" before "worst"?
  • In Footnote A, the team's name is misspelled.
  • Again, spell out abbraviated reference publishers (RSSSF and FIFA). Giants2008 (27 and counting) 03:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers for the comments, all resolved now. -- BigDom 10:01, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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