Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Central Coast Mariners FC

Central Coast Mariners FC[edit]

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The result was: not scheduled (withdrawn by Daniel (FAC nominator)) 11:05, 26 June 2013‎

Central Coast Mariners FC is a professional association football club based on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. They participate in the A-League and are one of four teams from the state of New South Wales playing in the competition. The Mariners were the first professional football (soccer) club from the Central Coast to compete in a national competition, and were formed during 2004 for the foundation of the A-League in 2005–06. Despite being considered one of the smaller franchises at the inception of the A-League competition, Central Coast qualified for the first four domestic finals after their establishment. The club made its debut in the AFC Champions League in 2009, finishing bottom of their group.. After coming second in the regular season in 2012-2013, the Mariners went on to achieve their first A-League championship by beating Western Sydney Wanderers in the 2013 A-League Grand Final. The Mariners are currently competing in the last 16 phase of the Asian Champions League. (Full article...)

2 points-Promoted over 2 years ago (6, to be exact)
2 points-Widely covered
4 points-Total points allocated. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 01:33, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted in 2007 and it shows. Unsourced statements and entire paragraphs, dead links, choppy prose, inconsistent presentation (just looking at the lead, I see "2008/2009 season", "2010–2011 season" and "season of 2012-2013": slash, n-dash and hyphen!), lists that I would have thought need some prose. Also, the club is not currently competing in the ACL because they were knocked out last month. "The Mariners Centre of Excellence is currently being constructed in Tuggerah and will then become the clubs headquarters" is in the lead but not the article and needs grammatical work as well. This whole article needs significant improvement before I would be prepared to have this on the main page: if there is no improvement soon, it needs to go to FAR. Non-free image removed / dablink fixed in the blurb. Bencherlite ^Talk 11:23, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, at least this nomination alerted the FA establishment to a substandard article. I probably would have nominated it at FAR, it is just that I operate in the GA community, and so I have tendency to comply with those criteria! QatarStarsLeague (talk) 16:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This definitely shouldn't appear on the main page any time soon. I totally agree that it shows that it was promoted nearly 6 years ago (wow, doesn't time fly). It clearly needs a good rewrite, something I might look at doing over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I can do it before it ends up at FAR (that part is more a pleading for time than a general statement! :P). Daniel (talk) 12:58, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]