Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Oxford United F.C./archive3

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The article was not promoted by GrahamColm 10:13, 12 May 2012 [1].

Oxford United F.C.

Nominator(s): Eddie6705 (talk) 18:06, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because it has gone through many changes since both of the previous failed nominations some two and a half years ago. Has just been taken to Peer Review (although with very little response), so hopefully there should not be any major issues with the article. Any questions please drop a message on my talk page. Eddie6705 (talk) 18:06, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Source comments –

What makes http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/ (reference 10) a reliable source? I've never seen this proved reliable at FAC before, and it has come up several times.
- I will work on trying to remove all mentions of the ref.
  - If it helps, the website of English Premier League club Aston Villa F.C. credits the images of their kit down the years to HistoricalKits. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:44, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - Dave Moor, the guy behind the site, has also had at least one book on football kits published by a mainstream publisher -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:54, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~What makes http://www.oxkits.co.uk/ (ref 32) reliable?~~
- Reference has been replaced.
Same question for http://www.footballcrests.com/ (ref 71)
- Each club was contacted by the website to ask for their permission for the information to be shown on the site. As a result, most of the information is provided by the club. In the case of Oxford United, the information was provided by Chris Williams, who is the website & programme editor at Oxford.
Is Tony Kempster (refs 89 and 90) some kind of recognized authority, or is this some fan site?
- This question was asked and resonded to here.
Ref 76 could use a page number. Giants2008 (Talk) 00:10, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Some replies. Eddie6705 (talk) 20:14, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments having a read-through - will jot queries below. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:03, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bottom bit of para 1 of First Division and cup success section needs inline citations.

Lower part of para 2 in Financial problems section needs inline citations.

There are some other uncited sentences at the end of paragraphs.

Casliber, i have added citations to the areas highlghted and another section where i thought it was needed.Eddie6705 (talk) 12:11, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good - the other thing I am concerned about is having books in Further reading sections, which leaves me wondering if they are important enough to list there then should they be used as references. I have The Soccer Tribe - was there something pertinent to Oxford you wanted in that I can look up...actually jogging my memory there is some stuff on songs IIRC.....Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:13, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If there is anything in the book about kits or the history of the kits then that would be great. Apart from that nothing else springs to mind. Unfortunately i dont have a copy of any of the books listed in further reading, so i wouldn't be able to reference from any of them. Eddie6705 (talk) 11:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

Charts are a bit hard to read at present size
- Increased size by 100px.
Wilder image sandwiches with following
- Moved up a section
Why is Ox capitalized in caption? It isn't in article text
- I think is used to be in a previous version, made lowercase
Seems obvious, but our archaic image rules require that you explicitly state who holds copyright to File:Oxford_United_FC.svg at the image description page
- Added
Source for data in File:Oxford_United_League_Positions.jpg?
- Added
File:Chris_Wilder.png needs a source. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:16, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed description so the source is now visible.

I will deal with these issues on Monday when I can get to a computer (currently typing via my phone). Eddie6705 (talk) 17:46, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Changes have now been made. Eddie6705 (talk) 16:05, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - I made a few minor technical changes, a couple of other things:

Don't mix date formats in the refs.
- Added brackets around the actual dates.
Avoid the "double full stop" you get when you have "Oxford United F.C.." in a ref...
- Removed second full stop.
BBC, BBC News, BBC Sport, linked, unlinked, italicised or not? Be consistent in refs.
- Done.
Check refs for en-dash, some titles have hyphens where en-dashes should be used per WP:DASH.
- Checked and changed.
You have many refs. For those where you have a general ref and you then go on to ref a single page, instead of "Brodetsky, Martin. Oxford United: The Complete Record, p.83" you could have "Brodetsky p.83". As long as there's no ambiguity (i.e. one author has written more than one book you reference) then that reference style should cut down a lot of the text in the refs.
- Followed advice.

The Rambling Man (talk) 17:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All changes made. Eddie6705 (talk) 17:02, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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