Talk:History of Stoke City F.C.

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[edit] GA comments

This article is very, very good (in my opinion) and incredibly well referenced. I will pass as a good article and suggest the following for FAC, this isn't far off...

• WP:DASH is applied to seasons, so instead of 1984-85, use 1984–85.
• Reduction in repetitive use of references, particularly ref [1] which could be used once per para. Same for [4], [5], [8], [11]. I realise that some people think that everything needs reference (I suffered the same fate in Adam Gilchrist, but it looks a bit silly to reference every sentence of a single para in the same way.
• Use of "around" instead of c. - reads better.

Good work. The Rambling Man 17:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit

This article, or a portion of it, was copyedited by the League of Copyeditors in August 2007. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. Copyeditor(s): Cricketgirl 14:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC) Proofreader: Finetooth 23:59, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Long sentence

"Tom Mather was appointed manager later in 1923 although Stoke were unable to mount another promotion challenge and were relegated from the Second Division four years later in the 1925–26 season." Could benefit from a break somewhere. J.Winklethorpe ^talk 22:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I've split to: "Tom Mather was appointed manager later in 1923 although Stoke were unable to mount another promotion challenge. They were instead relegated from the Second Division four years later in the 1925–26 season." Dave101→talk  15:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)