Weak Support Oppose Almost a quick-fail. Needs significant work, let us go down the failed FL criteria:

• Lead: The lead is nowhere large enough. Provide some background information on the footballers. Write about notable footballers and significant stats. The lead should provide enough context for the reader rather than a dull introduction to the table. There should not be a sentence in the lead for "see also"; those references belong in the See also section and the Categories.
• Comprehensiveness: Needs a key. What I said about expanding the lead above applies here.
• Style: Breaches WP:MOSDASH in the lead; replace those hyphens (national team - it covers players with 20 or more appearances) with en dashes. Breaches WP:ACCESS and WP:COLORS in table, use symbols such as (* ^ #) to provide information in conjunction with the colors.
• Referencing: Needs inline citations. This lack of inlines is understandable, because as of yet there is no need to verify the lead, which right now is just a description of a table. However, when you expand the lead and add appropriate info, add inline citations as needed.

All in all, needs a lot of work Dabomb87 (talk) 13:49, 18 November 2008 (UTC) More Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)[reply]

• Looks much better.
• Inline citations should go after punctuation.
  • done
• "and during this time many of its players have made a significant impact on the game." This is a vague phrase that can be deleted.
  • done
• I still think the lead can be expanded more. Add more information about individual players (most appearances, most wins, most awards) and games.
  • done - expanded significantly
• "20 of its players have won both the World Cup and UEFA European Championship and five have won gold, silver and bronze medals at the World Cup. " Per MOSNUM, sentences should not start with a numeral. "20"-->Twenty.
  • No longer the beginning of a sentence
• "In addition five players have won" Comma after addition.
  • No longer applicable
• "Due to the country's turbulent 20th century history" Instead of adding a POV word like turbulent, provide more background on what exactly made Germany's history "turbulent" (wars, political strife, economic concerns, etc.).
  • Changed - all the events that affected the team are specified
• "many of Germany's 1938 World Cup squad were from the then-annexed Austria"—"many"-->most.
  • not done- 9 of 22 were Austrian, so it wasn't most
• "After World War II, and the break-up of Germany" First comma is not needed.
  • done
• "During this time"—"time"-->period.
  • done
• "plus"-->including.
  • Not done - I've changed to 'and', because it's not really including; it's an intersect
• You don't need to link column headers since they are linked in the key.
  • done
• Add all the column headers to the key (Pos and caps).
  • done
• Spell out the lesser-known abbreviations in the references (FIFA, RSSSF, UEFA).
  • done
• Add format=PDF to reference 5. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • done
• Shouldn't the page title be "List of German international footballers"?
  • No - naming convention on WP uses the national team name - to show that it's players who played for Germany, not just any German international, which could include players for the other German national teams, dual nationals, etc. Otherwise resolved ArtVandelay13 (talk) 09:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• "World football" Why is this capitalized?
• Reference 5 needs a last access date. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:49, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose Agreed as above with DB87 on all counts. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 17:01, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Currently neutral. Still a couple of issues.

• There are images in the table area but none in the lead. Move up one of the images to the lead section.
• In the key, you don't need to link the position and the abbreviation. Just link the spelled-out name.

• Otherwise, well constructed at this point. Sorting seems to work well, which is more than I can say for a lot of lists I review. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 14:13, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK - both issues resolved. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 16:10, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

• • I think each citation should be placed after the punctuation, not before.
    • done
  • "Several hundred players" is unclear. Do you know the exact number?
    • not done - Can't find it, unfortunately
  • "One of the most successful national teams" is pov, in my opinion. You can't say that unless a specific source says that.
    • I've justified that statement a bit more
  • What is the Ballon d'Or? People who know nothing about football/soccer won't know
    • done - Clarified
  • Does this list include East Germany national footballers? I think you should clarify that in the lead
    • done - Clarified

—Chris! _ct 21:05, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• • • I've addressed the specific concerns listed above - comments are in Italics. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 13:17, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose - Per above, lead needs to be expanded, tables need to be reformatted, and needs referencing to reliable sources.TRU_CO 22:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Since the Germany national football team's first official match in 1908,[1] it has been represented by several hundred players. - several is WP:WEASEL, needs to be more specific.
• It has been one of the most successful national teams in world football, having participated in sixteen World Cups and ten European Championships, winning three of each[2]. the citation should go after the period.

• I can't find the specific number, so I've removed it as it's not really relevant and is fairly self-evident.

• In doing so, 20 of its players have won both titles, and five have won gold, silver and bronze medals at the World Cup. - so in winning the world titles, 20 of the players have won both titles? That doesn't make sense, do you mean 2 teams of players have won it?

• It means that of the three world cup wins and three european championship wins, 20 players have been involved in one of each.

• Lothar Matthäus has played in a record 25 World Cup matches and his participation in five World Cup tournaments is a joint record. - joint with what other player?

• done

• Matthäus was the inaugural winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991,[5] and is one of five Germany players to have been awarded European Footballer of the Year – Franz Beckenbauer and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge each having won the award twice. - reword Matthäus was the inaugural winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991,[5] and is one of five German players to have been awarded the European Footballer of the Year – Franz Beckenbauer and the Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on two occasions.

• done

• Beckenbauer was also voted in eighth place for the FIFA Player of the Century award, and was named in the World Team of the 20th Century. - eight place is really not as notable as in the top 5. Also, do you mean he was selected as a player in the WT of the 20th century? (selected works better in that sentence)

• eigthth is still pretty notable among the millions of people that played football during the 20th century. Other change done

• Ten German players were named in the FIFA 100,[8] a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pelé, and six are in the FIFA Century Club, having earned 100 or more caps. - who/what is Pele? Caps is WP:JARGON, needs to be elaborated as it is not a common term. Are needs to be changed to were for past tense.

• done, except the Century Club remains present tense - they still have 100+ caps, so it stays with them.

• Lothar Matthäus' 150 caps make him the ninth most capped player in world football, while Gerd Müller's 68 goals (in just 62 games) is the eighth most of any international player. - remove just.

• done

• Germany's borders underwent many changes during the 20th century, and which had an effect on the make-up of the German football team. - remove and.

• done

• Following the annexation of Austria, the Austrian team was absorbed into the German team, with the result that Germany's 1938 World Cup squad included many Austrians. - absorbed is wordy, merged would work better.

• not done - merged suggests a more equal partnership than was the case. The country and team was still called Germany in every respect.

• How about integrated? Dabomb87 (talk) 15:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Why is that better, though? ArtVandelay13 (talk) 09:18, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I don't really know actually; ask SRX (TRUco), this issue is a matter of personal style. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:00, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• During this period the team was commonly known as West Germany[14] until reunification in 1990, when the East German team was re-integrated into the German national team. - add a the before reunification. Also, reintegrated is one word, no need for the dash.

• done

• It includes all players with 20 more appearances, or 10 or more goals, for the German team, and all capped players that were in the squad for a World Cup or European Championship finals. - very repetitive, how about It includes players with over 20 appearances, over 10 scored goals, and all capped players that were in the squad for a World Cup or European Championship finals.

• Not done - the current sentence better explains that it's any of these criteria, not all

My oppose remains per prose issues.TRU_CO 21:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've addressed your comments above. Responses in italics. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 15:12, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]