Talk:Mauritius women's national football team/GA2

GA Reassessment

Delisting as article fails GAR criteria 1a, 1b, and 2c, as shown below. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:20, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I will be reassessing this article to determine whether it still meets the Good Article criteria. Any user is encouraged to assist in improving the article to keep it up to GA standards. Thanks. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 20:54, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.	See issues below.
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.	Lists and sections are not supposed to be empty, of course, and there are many examples of this. The sections "Results and fixtures", "Players", and "Records" are all empty and most are orange-tagged as a result. The "Coaching staff" section has only one piece of information, given twice, with no indication of when he took the position and no names of his predecessors. There are two empty lists within the "Players" section as well. I am also not convinced of the need for results tables for tournaments such as the World Cup, Olympics, Cup of Nations, and African Games given Mauritius has never qualified for any of them.
2. Verifiable with no original research:
	2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.	Ref 4 has no title, only "Archived copy", Ref 7 is a dead link and Refs 8 and 11 need more information besides just the title of the source.
	2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).
	2c. it contains no original research.	"Competitive record" has no citations, and the last sentence and a half of the "History" section need referencing too.
	2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.	Earwig is offline so AGF.
3. Broad in its coverage:
	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
	4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.
	5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.	Team logo is fair use.
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Team logo is relevant.
	7. Overall assessment.

Issues with criterion 1a

Lead

"As of 2012 the head coach is Yves-Pierre Bodineau" → recommend replacing with "Since 2012", given that "as of" sounds like the information was correct at the last point someone checked rather than that the information has been correct since that time

Not sure about this. Probably better to remove it. See summary/extract of a source on the Talk page. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:46, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History

"In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team" → "In 1985, very few countries had a women's national football team"

Amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"As of January 2013, the team had not played in, nor have they scheduled, any FIFA sanctioned matches." → this statement needs updating, as it is potentially nine years out of date. Also I believe "FIFA-sanctioned" needs a hyphen and FIFA should be linked here

Removed. Some cited info can be hopefully be added later. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Mauritius was scheduled to compete in several competitions" → repetitive, I'd suggest "take part in" instead of "compete"

Amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"The list includes the 2002 Confederation of Southern African Football Associations women's tournament in Harare, Zimbabwe from which they withdrew" → the abbreviation for COSAFA is already given in the link so it can be used here.
"In 2005, Zambia was supposed to host a regional Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) women's football tournament" → just use "COSAFA" here, same reason as above

Amended - changed link, reatined "(COSAFA)" in body text at first mention. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Any reason why Seychelles women's national football team is not linked in the list of teams?
"losing all three matches in their Group" → group should be lowercase

Amended per the two points above. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"As of 2012, the head coach was Alain Jules" → this contradicts with the lead and infobox, which state that the head coach is Yves-Pierre Bodineau
"As of March 2012, the team was not ranked in the world by FIFA, as it had not yet participated in any matches against other FIFA members. By June 2020, they were bottom of the FIFA rankings" → Are they ranked or not? These two sentences contradict

Recruitment and organisation

First paragraph is not specific to Mauritius
"As of 2009, there was no national or regional women's competition but a school competition existed" → Potentially 13 years out of date
"none of them played even one international match" → unnecessary stress here, just say "none of them played an international match"
"10% of the money from the FIFA Financial Assistance Programme" → avoid starting a sentence with a figure per MOS:NUMNOTES; suggest changing "10%" to "Ten percent"
"FIFA Financial Assistance Programme (FAP)" → "FAP" abbreviation is not used again, and therefore does not need to be given here
"Between 1991 and 2010 in Mauritius, there was no FIFA FUTURO III regional course for women's coaching, no women's football seminar held in the country and no FIFA MA course held for women/youth football" → no information or context is given as to what "FIFA FUTURO III" and "FIFA MA" are

Results and fixtures

Sole meaningful content in this section is an inappropriate external link

Moved the link to "External links". BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:53, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Players

"The following players were named on date month year for the xxx tournament. tournament" → for the what?
"Caps and goals accurate up to and including 30 October 2021" → not accurate since nothing is listed

Records

"*Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 31 August 2021" → again not accurate because the information being referred to here is not presented