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The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 20 December 2024 [1].

2004–05 Gillingham F.C. season

Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm back again with yet another article on a season in the history of Gillingham F.C. This season was, frankly, absolutely bloody awful, and writing about it brought back a lot of bad memories, so hopefully I can get a bronze star to offset my trauma ;-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately licensed. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:58, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Eric Idle's Cat

Hi Chris, funnily enough I was at that Forest game with a Forest-supporting friend of mine and we were talking about it only this week. I have a couple of minor points.

In Background and pre-season: "they finished in 21st place, level on points with 22nd-placed Walsall and avoiding relegation to the third tier only because their goal difference of -19 was one better than Walsall's -20." – should this be either "avoided" or "Walsall, avoiding…"?
In footnote 55, "Sunday" and "Telegraph" need separating. Eric Idle's Cat (talk) 11:20, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Eric Idle's Cat: - thanks for the review, both points addressed. As I recall (and it's a hazy memory, given that it was nearly 20 years ago) I sat about two rows from the front of the away end at that game, it poured with rain, and the roof didn't cover right to the front so I got soaked in addition to seeing my team get relegated....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:11, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - good work, as always. Eric Idle's Cat (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

750h

Will review. 750 h+ 12:45, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@750h+: - hope all is well, just wondering if you were still hoping to review this FAC...? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 23:06, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry, will try reviewing today or tommorow. 750 h+ 02:19, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

lead

competed in the Football League, and the 55th since remove the comma
of 2004 Gillingham were still within "were" ==> "was"
only lost twice, however the run this one's a bit of a personal opinion, but there's usually a comma after "however"
Between the start of September and late November for consistency ("early" and "late" are opposites) i'd change "the start of" to "early" (personal too, not necessary)

background and pre-season

Prior to the new season ==> "Before the new season"

football league championship

no problems here.

cup matches

Ternent told the media "We have gone I would either add a comma after "media" or rephrase to "Ternent told the media that "we have gone"

players

Byfield, Sidibé, Hope, and Nyron Nosworthy all played "all" is redundant
in at least three quarters of the hyphen needed between "three" and "quarters"
goals;[95][96] prior to this there had only "prior to" ==> "before"

aftermath

no problems here.

That's all i got, thanks for the article. i have an open FAC if you'd like to check it out. Best, 750 h+ 10:50, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@750h+: - thanks for that review. All done, albeit a couple of them ever so slightly differently but hopefully still acceptable -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. 750 h+ 11:35, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SC

Will swing by after 750. - SchroCat (talk) 09:43, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. All good from me. - SchroCat (talk) 11:15, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source review

Can we assume that #72 is about the previous day? Otherwise, it seems like this article has no issue wrt reliability and source formatting, although I didn't spotcheck everything. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:58, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: - I added a second source from a "live news" website that confirms that the players joined Gillingham on the 10th. The Telegraph, being a morning paper, would of course have reported it the next day -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Gog the Mild

Recusing to review.

"Byfield provided an assist for Paul Smith". I would be nice if "assist" could be explained in line. Per MOS:NOFORCELINK: "Do use a link wherever appropriate, but as far as possible do not force a reader to use that link to understand the sentence. The text needs to make sense to readers who cannot follow links."
"Gillingham followed this with defeats away to Millwall and West Ham United". Are the scores known?
"but with a goal difference which was one worse than that of their rivals". Is it known what he two goal differences were?

And that is all I have. You are getting the hang of these. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:26, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gog the Mild: - thanks for your review, I have addressed your comments with these edits. I couldn't think of a way to say "an assist, which is...." without it sounding horribly tortured, so I removed the term and just said that Byfield was the player who passed the ball to Smith to score the goal, which is all an assist really is..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:33, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Query

@FAC coordinators: - might I be permitted to nominate another article in the next day or so.....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I'm just waiting for you to finish all the past seasons for the club and then unveil a time machine that allows you to write about the future seasons...! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:52, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian Rose: - while it would be amazing to be able to nominate a 130+ article FT on the club's seasons, I suspect that would take me about another ten years......by which time of course there will have been another ten seasons to have to write about..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:12, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone can do it you can... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:40, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian Rose: Got to keep giving "football observers" something to talk about..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:51, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 13:30, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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