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Football club season pages
editHello, and thank you for trying to improve articles on football club seasons. I think there are two main reasons why your changes to the transfer table layouts have been reverted (by several different editors).
First, Wikipedia has a Manual of Style (MoS for short) that outlines the general house style that all article content is supposed to follow. Although many football club season articles do use the format you added, that format contravenes the MoS in several ways. Particularly: flags should only be used in a football context to show what country a player (or club) represents in context of international competition, and not just to show what country a player was born in or a club is located in; flags shouldn't be used instead of words, e.g. in a nationality column; we're advised not to use small font size unless absolutely necessary and not to use coloured print e.g. in table headings without a good reason. The sections MOS:FLAG and MOS:TEXT#Other text formatting concerns talk about this.
Second, consistency of appearance is important within a series of articles. All the Birmingham City season articles back to the start use pretty much the same simple format, and I'm guessing this is the same with Luton, Stoke and others. It'd be good if those season articles that use "your" format or similar would standardise on something simple, straightforward and MoS-compliant.
Hope this helps to explain. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:45, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
Football club season pages (Response)
editHello Struway,
Thank you for the welcome! All I was trying to do was keep the three pages consistent with all the other Championship clubs' 2019-20 season pages, as the design, at least in my eyes, was far more aesthetically pleasing than the standard issue being reverted back to.
I can understand meeting MoS requirements, so in future I shall simply refrain from amending Birmingham's, Luton's and Stoke's pages (I'm an Aston Villa fan so it took a lot of willpower to even want to make Birmingham's page look better!)
Best wishes, FowlChr, 10:09, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks. If you go back a very long time, I helped with some of the AVFC-related pages when they were being made featured articles or featured lists, so I know what's it's like to get my fingers dirty in the service of Wikipedia... cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:19, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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