Talk:2003 FA Cup final

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2003 FA Cup final has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

2003 FA Cup final is part of the 2002–03 Arsenal F.C. season series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 5, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
August 3, 2015	Good topic candidate	Promoted

Current status: Good article

First header

Apolgies for any breach of copywrite. I suuggest we revert back to the previous edit before the "offending" material was added —Preceding unsigned comment added by David Earley (talk • contribs)

The previous edit you mention forms the contents of Talk:FA Cup Final 2003/Temp, which should get moved back to the article on Sep 7. sʟυмɢυм • т • c 21:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

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--JeffGBot (talk) 05:49, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Match report

Can someone write a summary of the actual 90 minutes of football. The article describes the run-up to the match and the "aftermath", but there is no actual "match report". -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:39, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:2003 FA Cup Final/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 10:46, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Millennium Stadium is both overlinked and overused (three times in three sentences) in the opening para of the lead.
"Arsenal's 17th appearance in a final and Southampton's fourth." seventeenth per MOSNUM.
Link Premier League.
Consider link Replay (sports), I'm not sure how common this term is for non-football sports.
"it was to be his ..." It was to be Seaman's ... (last person you mention was Vieira).
"converted in by" no need for "in".
Link "header".
"retained the competition since " retained the trophy makes more sense, or retained the title.
Maybe link Champions League and UEFA Cup (relevant seasons maybe) in the lead.
You may need to explain what (h), (a), and (n) are to non-expert readers.
" Farnborough as the home team began the match in disastrous fashion" a bit tabloid, POV.
Link "sent off"?
"the previous season's final" could link that.
Matt or Matthew Oakley? Be consistent.
"sprightly" again, perhaps a little tabloid.
Take care not to repeat first names after the first instance.
You haven't linked Champions League anywhere.
Check ref titles for compliance with en-dash.
Be consistent with linking works and their format, e.g. is it The Guardian or guardian.co.uk?

A nice article. Some minor quibbles above so putting the article on hold. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:45, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reviewing! I believe I have made your suggested corrections. Lemonade51 (talk) 14:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, good stuff. Any reason why ref 5 is guardian.co.uk? The Rambling Man (talk) 15:04, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In order to differentiate both mediums; one refers to the publication (print edition) whereas the other is content published exclusively online (blogs, min-by-mins, PA). I've linked Ref 5's source, theguardian.com (who happen to have renamed its domain last week) for clarity. If content is both published on print and online, the newspaper title is cited. Lemonade51 (talk) 15:14, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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