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The article was promoted by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 22 August 2022 [1].

1988–89 Gillingham F.C. season

Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:52, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here is my 15th nomination of an article on a season in the history of English football club Gillingham F.C. This was a frankly awful and shambolic season as the club went on a two-month run of consecutive defeats, went through three managers (plus caretakers!), and ultimately slipped into the fourth tier of English football for the first time in 15 years. This is a vaguely topical nomination, as in a couple of weeks the club will be starting their first season in the fourth tier since 2013 after relegation at the end of last season (*sigh*). Feedback as ever will be most gratefully received and promptly acted upon. -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:52, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

images are appropriately licensed. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:03, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Support by FrB.TG

The infobox lists Roy Wood as the chairman until February, but it's not very clear to me which year this was.
"..since the team gained promotion from the Fourth Division as runners-up in 1974" - should it be in past perfect tense, maybe?
"On 26 October, one day after Gillingham lost 5–0 away to Preston North End, the team's eighth consecutive league defeat,[15] Taylor was dismissed.." - not a fan of the parenthesis ("the team's eighth consecutive league defeat") within the parenthesis ("one day after Gillingham lost 5–0 away to Preston North End"). It takes a little long to actually get to the significance of the date.
"Youth team coach Richardson and Bill Collins, who had retired at the end of the previous season after many years with the club" - do we have a specific number of years he worked with the club? It's fine if we don't (just curious).
"Two days later, Keith Burkinshaw was appointed as the club's new manager; the appointment" - repetition of appoint
"It was Gillingham's second consecutive away victory" - maybe link away to Away match? I had to look it up to see what it means.
"Burkinshaw continued to sign new players ~~in an attempt~~ to improve the team's fortunes." Prose redundancy.
"Tim O'Shea, a defender signed from Leyton Orient, played for the first time against Brentford and another new signing from Tottenham, midfielder Billy Manuel, made his debut on 11 February against Bristol City as did Alan Reeves, a defender signed on loan from Norwich City." Sign and defender are repetitively used in this sentence.
"His assistant Keith Blunt was appointed as caretaker manager, but despite" - can you find a way to rephrase it so you don't have to use double contrastive conjunctions?
Any reason why the second row in the partial league table is missing !scope="row"? FrB.TG (talk) 17:49, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @FrB.TG: - all done with this edit apart from the last one. I can't figure out what the issue is there - the partial league table uses a template which (as far as I am aware - it's far too complex for my simple brain) adds the scopes automatically, so I can't see how/why one row could be missing a scope.....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:32, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support. I just wanted to ensure consistency but if it’s a template thing, it’s fine. FrB.TG (talk) 06:11, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thank you :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:38, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Support by Eem dik doun in toene

"for a game against Fulham on 26 December 1988" ==> maybe you can indicate this was a league game
Gillingham appointed a new chairman halfway through the season. Maybe this is worth mentioning in the prose?
season[3][4][5] and ==> I'm not really a fan of having refs in the middle of the sentence without a preceding comma
Associate Members' Cup - the infobox shows "Torquay United (H)" but Gillingham had an away match
"with only two months of the season remaining." ==> I know this info can be found elsewhere in the article (and referenced), but I don't think it would do any harm to put a reference behind this sentence
That's all I have. Nice work again. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 18:11, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Eem dik doun in toene: thanks for your review - all done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:51, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 20:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments and source review from Mike Christie

Support. Not much to say; you've done this enough times to get it right by now.

For the source review:

You're missing the location on Bateson & Sewell (1989), and you list them as editors for 1992 but not for 1989.
The "Peacock sacked" clip doesn't get the whole article -- can you reclip? I wouldn't hold up the source review for this, since what you've clipped does verify the citation, but it bothers my OCD.

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:09, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: - both of the above resolved -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:34, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pass. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:37, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: - fab, many thanks! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:41, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Co-ordinator query

@FAC coordinators: - can I ask the usual question here? OK to start another one? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:55, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, 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. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:57, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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