Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Nea Salamis Famagusta FC/archive1

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The article was not promoted by Ian Rose 10:01, 11 April 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Nea Salamis Famagusta FC[edit]

Nominator(s): Xaris333 (talk) 20:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because I think that it meets all the FA criteria.

Oppose – Welcome to FAC, Xaris. Unfortunately, I don't think the article meets the prose criterion (1a) at the moment. For example, the opening paragraph of Decade 1960–1969 reads as follows: "In the early years of the decade, Nea Salamina was strong in home games, but impossible to away games. Noteworthy is the conquest of the championship from substitutionary team the period 1960–61. The games alternate players gathered the same interest with the main team among fans, who enthusiastically celebrated winning the title." There are many similar issues throughout, and I fear that the entire article needs to be rewritten. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – this is a premature nomination, some of the text is poorly translated failing 1a as above, but some is actually in Greek, for example in the "Gallery" captions. The article also appears to fail the referencing criterion (1c) as a lot of the information (former managers, current squad, Nea Salamina in Cypriot Cup, Overall statistics on class A, Statistics by opponent) appears not to be supported by inline citations. I agree with Giants2008 that the entire article needs to be rewritten. C 679 16:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - needs to be totally re-written by a native English speaker, much of the article borders on unintelligible. As mentioned above, also fails significantly on refs -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:47, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delegate comment -- Just on a quick glance, in addition to the comments noted above, there are style issues such as title -- rather than sentence -- case in the first subsection, and a series short, choppy paragraphs in for instance Ammochostos Stadium. I'll therefore be archiving the nomination. Xaris, pls take on board the recommendations and consider GA and Peer Review before bringing back to FAC. Pls also note that once this is archived, per FAC instructions, you cannot nominate any other article here for at least two weeks. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 22:46, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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