First, I did start making notes towards commenting at the peer review (would have been the first one I'd done in ages), got distracted, and ended up not doing so, for which I apologise. Much of this stuff could have been sorted there, but it's not your fault that your peer review only got one reviewer, albeit a good one.
* In the references, The Independent newspaper should be italicised. If you're using ((cite news)), just change it from publisher= to work= , or to newspaper= , which I discovered recently and which avoids the confusion between works and publishers.
- Done. Thanks for the tip.
- Perhaps you could tone down the red a bit. It says at WP:COLOUR that blue on red can be problematic, and I can confirm from personal experience that for at least some of your colour-blind readers, the lack of contrast between wikilink blue and that density of red makes the text damn near invisible :-)
- Swapped with the green, which seemed fine judging by comments below.
- Ashley Young has 7 international apps, not 6.
- Fixed, and sourced. As with most of the problems with the game, I blame the FA ;)
- I'm not sure about the green players. Is their having played pro/semipro football this season all that relevant? And even if so, how are you sourcing it? Soccerbase will verify them playing in the Football League and probably Conference, but won't do players playing abroad, or below Conference National.
I personally felt it was somewhat relevant, but as Brian made the very same point, I guess I'm in the minority. "Professional or semi-professional" was largely aimed to get around whether Conference teams are pro or not. I've removed the classification altogether as it was unverified, and recycled the color to address your point above.
- The blacklinked notable players, Joe Johnson, Tom Davies, Jim McLaren etc, should be redlinked. I read your comment at the PR, but a title like Joe Johnson (Watford footballer) would be justifiable, in the absence of other disambiguators, and if someone created their article at a different title, it's easy enough to change the one used here.
- I tend to find that finding an article from scratch is easier than merging/deleting articles. The simplest solution will simply be to create those first, so I'll make those my priority for the next week.
- Don't really see any reason why that would be any more of a problem for these few than for any other of the redlinked players. People are possibly more likely to create an article for a different person at one of the straightforwardly-named redlinks. But I see you've linked them anyway...
- Have you checked the Southern League players for possible notability through playing for other clubs?
- I've now redlinked all players who have been at Football League clubs, according to the Watford Who's Who. Admittedly, that's not a guarantee that none of the other players meet WP:ATHLETE through playing for clubs without the author's knowledge, nor is it a guarantee that all of the redlinked ones played for their Football League club(s). Nonetheless, redlinked and delinked players tally with the information used to compile the list, which I think is appropriate.
- Couple more things (sorry).
- On accessdates, per your reply to TRM, where the content is subject to change, the accessdate is important. You may be unaware that the BBC are one of the worst offenders for refactoring pages with or without updating the date of last change, so any BBC page will need an accessdate.
- Done. I might archive the BBC links later anyway, just in case they decide to pull older content offline at some point in future.
* Should the Ross Jenkinses not be listed just as Ross Jenkins, if they weren't actually known by their full name?
Shortened, and removed the footnote.
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