Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lebanon national football team/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 12 June 2019 [1].

Lebanon national football team[edit]

Nominator(s): Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 00:21, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As the title reads, this article is about the national association football team of Lebanon. With some relatively major events happening recently (1. the first participation through regular qualification in the AFC Asian Cup; 2. Hassan Maatouk becoming the new national team top scorer) I figured it was an appropriate time to nominate the article. As the only major editor of this article, I feel like it meets all the FA criteria listed. Comparing it to other FA national team articles, namely Belgium national football team, I think that this article is of the same standard. Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 00:21, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Kosack[edit]

Hi, Nehme1499. I think the article needs a bit more attention before it is ready for a run at FA. I would suggest undertaking a peer review first in order to iron out some issues. There are a few quite short paragraphs which are generally to be avoided, some paragraphs with seemingly unsourced statements and a few other things I can see from a quick glance. A run through by a member of the WP:GOCE may also be worth looking at. Kosack (talk) 12:19, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your comment. You’re right regarding the peer review: I should have submitted a request there before nominating the article for FA. As for the GOCE, it has already been copy edited (only the last couple of paragraphs about the 2019 AFC Asian Cup campaign in the history section are post-copy edit). Should I close this nomination before submitting a peer review request? Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 12:58, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you do wish to go to PR instead, this would need to be closed as you can't run an FAC and a PR simultaneously. Kosack (talk) 13:21, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by RetiredDuke[edit]

Just some thoughts for an eventual peer review, as I largely agree with the comment above:

Some of those sources need to be replaced, as they do not look reliable at all (forum.kooora.com, abdogedeon.com, worldfootball.net, Blog Baladi, My Football Shirt Project caught my eye). References 53 and 55 are dead. Capelli Sport is an online shirt shop. Banca de rezerva is a blog.
None of the tables (FIFA World Cup, AFC Asian Cup, WAFF Championship, Arab Nations Cup, Pan Arab Games, Asian Games, Mediterranean Games, Other Tournaments) are sourced. Neither are the ones in Belgium's article, you'll say, but those have introductory text that is heavily sourced. These ones should also have some sort of referenced text that supports the tables' content. RetiredDuke (talk) 13:25, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- Oppose - Clearly you may close this above, but putting it out there that I wouldn't support this for quite a few of the reasons above. I'll add my comments to a PR if it's created. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:45, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to everyone for their input, I'll nominate the article for PR. By the way, how do I close this nomination? Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 19:14, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nehme, I'll treat this as a request for withdrawal and action accordingly. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:27, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been withdrawn, 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) 06:27, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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