Talk:Gambia women's national football team

Gambia women's national football team was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 4, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
May 13, 2022	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 10, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that while football is the most popular women's sport in Gambia and the U-17 has played in a World Cup qualifier, the Gambia women's national football team has not played a FIFA sanctioned game?

Current status: Delisted good article

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DYK nomination

GA Review

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Reviewer: Batard0 (talk · contribs) 12:21, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm beginning a review of five articles about African women's football teams simultaneously. Unless they're finished earlier, I will put them on hold for at least a week and a half as the review process continues, recognizing that this will likely be somewhat more complex than the average GA review. For reference, the articles are as follows:

--Batard0 (talk) 12:21, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some edits for clarity and conciseness; please change if necessary and let me know. Here are some specific points:

~~First sentence issue, as with Burundi and CAR.~~
- Done I think? --LauraHale (talk) 06:52, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~In the third sentence of the Team section, can we put in the year in which the Gambia Football Association was founded? So "since the founding of the Gambia Football Association in XXXX" etc.~~
- Fixed? --LauraHale (talk) 06:57, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~The first section is called "Team", but it's "The team" in Burundi. I suggest we standardize these, however you suggest.~~
- Changed. --LauraHale (talk) 06:52, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~What was the outcome of the Sierra Leone game? Was it played?~~
- At the time it was nominated, I don't believe the game had been played. In any case, this information has now been added. :) --LauraHale (talk) 07:21, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~I can't find a wikipedia page for the African Women's U-19 Championship. Does one exist under another name? Would be good to link it if there is, or perhaps redlink it if not.~~
- Made a link. Pretty much the competition before they did the age change to reflect FIFA changes. --LauraHale (talk) 06:52, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~Same stuff with the human rights issue in the background section.~~
- Added more sources like the other articles. --LauraHale (talk) 06:57, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It confuses me that the national football association was founded in 1952 and became affiliated with FIFA in 1968, while the women's team hasn't played a FIFA-sanctioned match. I assume this means there were men's teams but no women's teams until more recently. Could we say something like "became affiliated with FIFA in 1968 as the men's team began to compete at the international level."?
- As the information is repeated in the second section, I've removed it and reworked the sentence. --LauraHale (talk) 07:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~When we talk about national competition being launched, what exactly does this mean? Are we talking about clubs within the country and not national teams?~~
- National competition would be a national league for domestic players to compete domestically. Different from a national team. (But often seen as a key thing to have in place for national team success.) --LauraHale (talk) 07:21, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand the bit about the FIFA-sanctioned MA women's course. What does this mean?
- FIFA teaches some courses that basically highly qualify people in the country for certain things. It can be removed I think if needed as it isn't necessarily that important. --LauraHale (talk) 06:57, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - I changed the wording to make it a little clearer, describing it as a women's football education course...that work?--Batard0 (talk) 08:22, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - yeah. That works. :) --LauraHale (talk) 03:01, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's about it for now. It looks all right; addressing these things will go a long way toward getting this in line with GA criteria. Well done.--Batard0 (talk) 18:28, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One other thing I noticed: any chance we can get a date for the Gambia U-17 team's first World Cup qualifiers? I looked at the source, and it doesn't seem to contain any dates, unfortunately. That's a little bizarre; perhaps there's some other source? If not, we'll have to just go with what's there.--Batard0 (talk) 08:25, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is pretty much ready to go. I made some other edits for clarity, all of which were pretty minor. Best to take a look and see if you agree with them.--Batard0 (talk) 08:55, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see anything that concerns me much. :) --LauraHale (talk) 03:02, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

After making a few adjustments, the article meets the GA criteria.

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:
The article is free of spelling and grammar mistakes, and the prose is clear and concise.

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
Basic MoS compliance is there.
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:
It contains adequate references, formatted correctly.

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
Inline citations are included.

C. No original research:
No evidence of OR here.
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:
It covers the major aspects.

B. Focused:
It doesn't get into unnecessary detail.
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Neutrality isn't an issue.
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
It's stable.
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
Images are properly tagged.

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Images are appropriate for the article.
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
It meets all the relevant criteria. Well done.

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GA Reassessment

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Over the coming days, I will be reassessing this article to determine whether it still meets the Good Article criteria. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:04, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.	A few issues here, see below section.
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.	Lists are not supposed to be empty, of course, and there are empty lists in the Records and All-time records sections. Multiple sections are orange-tagged, the "coaching staff" section makes no sense, and the "Players" section has lots of missing information about those players. The honours section is totally empty, as is the Team image section.
2. Verifiable with no original research:
	2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.	Ref 24 is formatted incorrectly, Refs 4 and 20 is marked as a dead link, and Refs 6 and 7 have full URLs in the references and therefore are also formatted incorrectly. Ref 2 is named "archive copy" instead of having a proper title
	2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).
	2c. it contains no original research.
	2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.
3. Broad in its coverage:
	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).	Perhaps a touch too much detail on Jawara.
	4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.
	5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.	Team logo has fair use.
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Team logo is relevant.
	7. Overall assessment.

Issues with criterion 1a

Lead/infobox

"...it has only competed in one major international competition, attempting to qualify for the 2018 Africa Cup of Nations." → "...it has only competed in one major international competition, the 2018 Africa Cup of Nations qualification."
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:44, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure if World Cup, Olympic, and AFCON appearance counters are necessary in the infobox given they are all 0
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:44, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History

The team

a bit of inconsistency; "The Gambia" (capital "T") is used in the lead but "the Gambia" (lowercase "T") is used in this section
- Done Per The Gambia used capital T only at beginning of sentence and lowercase in middle.--SuperJew (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"lost a 1-2 result" → use en-dash rather than hyphen
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"the Gambia drew the defending..." → sentence starts with a lowercase letter
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"defending Cup of Nations Champions" → "champions" should be lowercase
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Gambia fielded an under-17 team of 24 players, narrowed from an initial pool" → remove bolded portion, since the under-17 side having under-17 players is redundant to state
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:50, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Gambia" is stated without the leading "the" in the third paragraph
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Gambia then beat Tunisia 1–0 at home and won 2–1 in Tunisia" → "...won 2–1 away" to avoid repetition
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Any reason why the team withdrew from the 2002 U-19 championship?

Death of Fatim Jawara

"a player of the national team" → "a member of the national team"
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:55, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"homeland" → would "hometown" be more appropriate?
- Done Changed wording order. --SuperJew (talk) 08:56, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This paragraph repeats itself about halfway through. The paragraph goes from: (1) Who Jawara is, (2) her travel to Italy, (3/4) her ultimate fate and death, (5) notice of her absence, (6) her travel to Italy, (7) her travel to Libya, which was the first step in her travel to Italy, (8) her ultimate fate and death.
- Done Reworded. Let me know if it needs any more minor adjustments. --SuperJew (talk) 09:02, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reactions to her death

Since this is only one sentence, and it is about the previous section, just merging them would make more sense.
- Done --SuperJew (talk) 08:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All-time record against FIFA recognized nations

This section uses the name of another country (Djibouti) rather than The Gambia
There are numerous placeholders that just have a string of the letter "x" rather than any actual information

Overall review conclusion

WP:GAR states that An individual assessment may be closed after seven days of no activity. As there has been no activity on the review for eight days, I am closing the review. My conclusion is that the article fails GA criteria 1a, 1b, and 2a, at least, and therefore will be delisted. If improvements are made in the future, and the article is brought up to par, it can be renominated for GA. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]