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Ireland national football team (1882-1950)

This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because there are very few editors who have worked on it, it has recently been judged to have failed the GA criteria, and I think we have taken it as far as we can without additional input Fasach Nua (talk) 13:44, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)

• Not wishing to nitpick too much but the title should use en-dash to separate the years per WP:DASH.
• "During the era 1882 to 1950," - Just "From 1882 to 1950," will do.
• Football (soccer) is now association football.
• Using IFA in the note before the lead is confusing, what is IFA?
• Need to resolve the citations needed banner.
• "Northern Ireland national football team" is in bold. Why?
• ", having shared it " - this clause doesn't logically follow - just "and shared it..." will be fine.
• Hyphens in the infobox should be en-dashes, and citations should be placed immediately following punctuation, where possible, per WP:CITE.
• I would link the dates per WP:DATE so they autoformat.
• "These two losses, together with the initial loss to England still constitute the record wins held by each of the other home nation teams." - reads poorly - these results would sound better.
• "the 1800s[7]" missing full stop.
• "17 year old" suspect this should be hyphenated.
• Images should be sized in accordance with WP:MOS#Images
• I agree with whoever tagged it as needing more references. It's not 100% clear how much of the text is cited, a lot of claims go unreferenced.
• "Ireland[29] (see names of the Irish state)" citation placed badly, don't like "see... links" in prose, link intelligently.
• Early Ireland colours caption - lose the full stop, it's a fragment.
• Why is Did not enter in italics?
• Mural caption is a fragment so lose the full stop.
• What makes these players more notable than any other? And also, wikilink more elegantly to the category, e.g. For all players, see Pre-1950 IFA international footballers .
• Former coaches section is either incomplete or confusing.

That's a good start for you. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for thre great input, I have implemented most of your suggestions. Two issues have been raised

• Why is "Did not enter" in italics?
• What makes these players more notable than any other?

Thses are both MoS issues, the former, is specified [[here, and I don't consider it a major issue, with or without italics is fine with me.

The second point is highlighting something, which I feel is complete original research, however it is specified in the MoS, the Scotland team which is FA class does not use it, I am torn what to do with this one Fasach Nua (talk) 07:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)