Talk:Madagascar women's national football team

Madagascar 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
June 28, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
January 9, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 20, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match?

Current status: Delisted good article

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DYK nomination

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Madagascar women's national football team/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Dom497 (talk · contribs) 02:40, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
Pass!--Dom497 (talk) 02:43, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Nothing needs to be fixed.--Dom497 (talk) 02:43, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review comments

In no way is this a good article, with a quick review highlighting the following issues:

there is barely any sourced prose on the nation, the background section should never outweight the main history section
There is no squad listing for the last recorded match
There is inappropriate non-english language text
The recent matches section is text only, and not formatted according to the accepted MoS
No competitive records section

I would rate this as a C-class article at best. Fenix down (talk) 15:40, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Reassessment

Madagascar women's national football team

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delist on poor prose quality. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:55, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My reasons for nomination can be seen at Talk:Madagascar women's national football team/GA2, an individual reassessment that I performed. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 16:05, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get to this one. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 10:31, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I updated the article. That constituted getting rid of the empty lists (where the information is not known), and adding three tournaments for the main national team (COSAFA from 2017 to 2019). I checked if the youth national team participated in any events since the most recent one mentioned and I don't think they have. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 10:55, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Some of the other points that were raised in the individual reassessment (which I was believe was poorly done) do not disqualify the article from GA status per the instructions "Many problems (including not meeting the general notability guidelines, the presence of dead URLs, inconsistently formatted citations, and compliance with the Manual of Style) are not covered by the GA criteria and therefore not grounds for delisting". Also some of these changes are simple enough to make yourself per the instructions "Those who add an article to good article reassessment should feel free to fix problems with the article; this is not regarded as a conflict of interest". Sportsfan77777 (talk) 10:55, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is sufficient to close the article as keep. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 10:55, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I saw Indy Beetle's concern about whether there is too much information about football in Africa in general. I don't agree with that. We have hundreds of "small countries at the Olympics" articles that do basically the same thing (i.e. repeating more general information) for the background section, and it looks fine in those articles. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 10:59, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Thanks for implementing the improvements, Sportsfan77777. I made a couple of minor tweaks. I think that the general information about football in Africa is likely to benefit readers. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 10:24, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Sportsfan77777: the prose issues of the individual GA have not been addressed. Untill that's done, I do not think the article meets the GA criteria (so delist until that is done). —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:40, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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