Talk:2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team

2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 15, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 30, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that after posting an 11–3 record, the 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team lost to Appalachian State in the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 14, 2007?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Brad78 (talk) 00:20, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Three of the five sections are merely lists. There is not enough prose in the article. Of the other two, one section is just two short sentences, and the final section, although more prose, is short, stubby sections, and not comprehensive enough. There is no flow to the prose. For what it's worth, there are no probelms with the current prose, but lots of changes will be needed anyway.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
No problems here.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
Here's the main problem. The sections have no flow, and the article is clearly not comprehensive enough. The short sections do not flow together and do not put the article in context. Most of the game sections don't even mention the score. It's not clear how the team qualified for the championship game, how they played, etc, etc. I suggest looking at some other similar articles to help find out how to add far more details. Because of the paucity of details, it barely mentions what sport is being played, and to an outside reader not familiar with US football, it's full of jargon that will be meaningless.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
No images.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
I'm afraid this is a fail. In my opinion the article is well-short of GA. Take a look at other club season articles across a range of sports and see they are much more comprehensive. As well as this, I would suggest getting a peer review or help from other experience good article writers before resubmitting a GA nomination. Brad78 (talk) 00:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link[edit]

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/SPORTS07/804280357/1002/SPORTS
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--JeffGBot (talk) 12:46, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]