• "More than 2,500" instead of "Over 2,500".

fixed

• " over 1,200 footballers have " same again.

fixed

• "only 97 of which scored at least five goals" -> "of which just 97 have scored at least five."

fixed

• Is the article title correct? This is about goals scored in the World Cup finals right, not about goals scored in World Cup qualifiers?

Why wouldn't it be? WC finals/tournament is almost always shortened to WC, while for qualifications you always spell out the qualifications part. Nergaal (talk)

• "in 1954", "in 1970" etc, should be linked to the tournaments, and rephrased thus: "in the 1954 tournament" and/or "in the 1970 finals" or similar.

fixed

• "at the 1974 final" there's an article for this.

fixed

• " single World Cup game" is piped to a redirect.

fixed

• "The top 90 goalscorers" why top 90?

That was the number before 2018. Updated it. Nergaal (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Lots of unnecessary repetition, e.g. "goalscorers .. scoring", "goals scored ... with 13 goals".

I tried to trim a bit of those usages. I hope the remaining sentences still make sense. Nergaal (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Bold shouldn't be used as a distinguishing feature as some screen readers don't acknowledge it. Use symbols etc.

fixed

• "Players with at least 5 goals at the FIFA World Cup tournaments[6] [7]" no space between refs.

fixed

• "Number of goalscorers[4][5][3]" refs in numerical order.

fixed

• You link some "international goals" articles or sections of bios, but not all (e.g. Rudi Voller), why?

Added for those that have an actual table of WC goals. Nergaal (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Is "goals per game" recognised in reliable sources to be significant in World Cup finals goalscorers?

FIFA has "PLAYERS WITH THE BEST AVERAGE OF GOALS PER MATCH" Nergaal (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Leônidas is piped to a redirect back to itself.

fixed

• "1974 – Second round" is piped to a redirect.

I don't understand this. Nergaal (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Australia play "soccer" not "football" in their pipe.

fixed

• Tables need row and col scopes for ACCESS.

fixed

• "Players marked with ↑ are still playing for their national teams in the 2018 tournament." is this relevant?

Updated. Nergaal (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• "(he scored one additional goal in 1934" 1934 is an easter egg link, should be "in the 1934 tournament".
  • This was fixed by Nergaal, he just didn't mention here that he did.Cheetah (talk) 16:30, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• "but are now credited" but is now.

fixed

• " as 7 players scored" -> seven.

fixed

• Where does, for example this show me that Mandzukic scored five goals in eight games? It seems that FIFA haven't updated for 2018 so anyone listed in your table with a 2018 tournament appearance/goal is currently inadequately referenced.

Yes, people have updated the 2018 numbers (i.e. there are 97 players now with 5+ goals from 90 before). It is unclear to me how to reference the most recent tournament and keep things standardized before FIFA does their updates. The current numbers should be correct, and I tagged the player entries with 2018 numbers. Nergaal (talk) 09:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

All 2018 players have the issue of not having "matches played" number updated in the FIFA database. I can't think of an elegant solution to deal with this other than tag along all 2018 players with ↑ and manually add some refs that will eventually become redundant once FIFA decides to update their numbers; or leave the tag and say those numbers are updated after 2018 but links might not. Any ideas? Nergaal (talk) 08:10, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• If ref 119 was published in 2008, it can't verify 2010, 2014 and 2018.

I think I fixed this. Nergaal (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Ref 119 also seems to not reference all the alternative FIFA awards, e.g. where does it confirm that Flórián Albert was Best Young Player?

Added. Nergaal (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's enough for a quick run-through. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:34, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed most comments. Will come back later to wrap up the last couple ones. Nergaal (talk) 09:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: I think I took care of all the comments. Nergaal (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Does that include fixing the issue of the non-inclusion of the stats from the 2018 tournament? The Rambling Man (talk) 16:39, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: It has been fixed. Crzycheetah added references for the players who scored in 2018, and I added references for the players who played but didn't score. TompaDompa (talk) 17:01, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• • Both phrases are very common among football commentators/experts/players. It depends on a style of a writer/speaker, I'd guess. If you insist, I'll change.
    • I do. I'm guessing it would trip up non-native speakers of English (and native speakers not familiar with the sport's terminology) to a fairly large degree, which would probably be avoided if rephrased. TompaDompa (talk) 19:44, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • Rephrased
• "almost 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup" – the linked page says over 1,300. What is the actual figure? I also generally prefer "more than X" to "almost Y".
  • I changed it to "more than 1250". In the reference used the last number shown is 1251.
    • A thousands separator is required by MOS:DIGITS. TompaDompa (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• A large number of citations have access dates from 2014. Seeing as many of these figures are subject to change, they should be updated (at least for all the players who played in 2018, and other figures that need to be current as of the 2018 World Cup).
• Since all the other players in the WP:LEAD have their nationality mentioned, Pelé, Jürgen Klinsmann, Oleg Salenko, Josef Hügi, and Ernst Wilimowski should as well.
  • Added
    • The "of [country]" phrasing used for Pelé and Klinsmann is a bit clunky. I'd suggest either using "[country]'s [player]" or saying that they scored goals "for [country]". TompaDompa (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• The key for the table should not be hidden in footnotes.
  • A separate key is added
    • The key needs a copyedit. For "#", the word "have" should be removed. For "[ ]" and "( )", they need to be rewritten entirely for grammar and clarity. TompaDompa (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• "♦" and "↑" is a pretty unorthodox combination of symbols. It's good that they cannot be confused for each other (unlike say "†" and "‡"), and "♦" is easy to spot on the list, but "↑" is easy to miss at a cursory glance. I don't have any real suggestion for some other combination of symbols, but I think there's room for improvement.
  • Changed ↑ with #. Let me know how it looks now.
    • That's a definite improvement. TompaDompa (talk) 19:44, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Thomas Müller's goals per game do not match the number of goals divided by the number of matches. There might be other mismatches. Perhaps the averages should be calculated instead of entered?
  • I am using the Decimals template to avoid such mismatches.
    • Perfect. That's just what I was looking for. TompaDompa (talk) 19:44, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• In the notes column, some lists of goals are hidden inside footnotes. These should be moved outside the footnotes.
  • Done
• In the timeline, Sándor Kocsis' eighth goal (i.e. his first goal against Brazil) that tied the record seems to be missing.
  • No, it's not missing. It's listed as a record.
    • You're right. See below. TompaDompa (talk) 21:31, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• In the timeline, I believe Kocsis scored four goals against West Germany, not Germany.
  • Corrected
• In the timeline, Just Fontaine's thirteenth goal (i.e. his fourth against West Germany) seems to be missing.
  • No, it's not missing. It's listed as a record.
    • You're right. Whether it is visible or not varies depending on the width of the browser window. The difference can be seen here. TompaDompa (talk) 21:31, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• The link in reference 112 (as of my writing this) is dead.
  • Fixed

TompaDompa (talk) 13:44, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe all your comments have been resolved, please take another look. Thanks! Cheetah (talk) 08:18, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• This bit of grammar in the lead is awkward: "while Brazil's Jairzinho became in 1970 the only footballer to score at least seven goals without being the top goalscorer of that tournament." Perhaps this would work: "while Brazil's Jairzinho became the only footballer to score at least seven goals without being the top goalscorer of that tournament in 1970."
• Note 1 needs a reference for Wilimowski having the highest goals-to-games ratio.
• Note 2: Last word of "but in November 2006 however" could stand to be taken out.
• Note 5: "After Yugoslavia split" should probably be "After Yugoslavia's split" or "After the split of Yugoslavia" instead.
• References 20, 59, 95, and 109 have all caps in their titles that should be removed. Also, the hyphens in these titles should be converted into en dashes, and the publisher formatting seems different than the other FIFA refs. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:42, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Changed to your phrasing.
• Added reference.
• Removed "however".
• Changed to "After the breakup of Yugoslavia".
• Those were the ones I added, and that was the automatically generated formatting. I have fixed it.

I think that should take care of everything. TompaDompa (talk) 23:15, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Thank you TompaDompa for your help! Giants2008, besides your commenting (much appreciated!), will you do a source review as well?--Cheetah (talk) 23:28, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]