Talk:1885 Navy Midshipmen football team/GA1

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 20:24, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"The team was the fourth intercollegiate football squad to represent the United States Naval Academy, and was the first time that the school played a multiple-game season." Needs to be rephrased; currently it has to be parsed as "The team [...] was the first time that ..."
"starting the seven-year rivalry between the schools": making it "the" seven-year rivalry implies that they have had no rivalry since; is that correct? Or should it be "a seven-year rivalry"?
Footnotes 11 and 12 go to a Wikipedia page, which isn't allowed; Wikipedia pages are not reliable sources for our purposes.
Are there any images that could be used? Perhaps an early shot of the academy?
Was the captain the same person as C.K.G. Billings?
Checklinks shows a dead link in footnote 2.

-- I'll check for source reliability and close paraphrasing after you respond to the points above, since that might change a couple of sources. I'll place this on hold. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:15, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about such a late response. I believe I have addressed all of your above concerns. Thanks for the review, - A Texas Historian (Talk to me) 00:56, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't respond re Billings, so I'm guessing we can't be sure it's him -- it's a pity, because it seems very likely. Anyway, I'm promoting this to GA; congratulations. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:24, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]