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North Road, Manchester is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 19, 2014.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 26, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
December 6, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
August 9, 2009	Featured article candidate	Promoted

Current status: Featured article

GA Review

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Nice article.

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It is reasonably well written.
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This is a very solid article. You've really worked hard on it, and I'm always pleased to see that an article has been Peer Reviewed before going to GAN. The prose is good, the text is informative and (I assume) comprehensive. The only thing I can really think of is a picture, either then or what the location looks like now. Anyway, congratulations. Aptery gial 08:20, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for the review, my friend. I will endeavour to acquire a photograph of the ground, but that may not be possible until the next time I am in Manchester, which will probably be a fair way away. Anyway, thanks for promoting the article. – Pee Jay 10:34, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dean and Canons / Deans and Canons

I'd place a bet that the National Archives and Manchester Cathedral itself are correct in referring to "Dean" singular and that the author of a book on football ground history is more accurate on his football than on ecclesiastical matters. There is only ever one dean of a cathedral at a time - the dean is the head officer of the cathedral (the bishop is the head officer of the diocese). For the owner to have been the "Deans and Canons" of Manchester Cathedral there would have to have been more than one dean. The source is just wrong on this point, surely. Bencherlite ^Talk 21:13, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not seeing any evidence that the group as a whole isn't referred to as "Manchester Deans and Canons". In fact, I have more than one source that refers to "the Deans and Canons of Manchester", perhaps indicating that there was more than one Dean during the time that Newton Heath played at the ground. I'll get in touch with the authors of the sources and get back to you. – Pee Jay 21:22, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As one of the links says, "By the Dean and Chapter Act of 1840, the Warden and Fellows became Dean and Canons of Manchester", for example. There may have been more than one dean during the club's tenancy (and in fact Dean of Manchester suggests that there was), but the lease would have been with "the dean and canons" (or the dean and chapter) NOT the "deans and canons" because there was never more than one dean at the same time! As the first hit on Google for "Manchester Deans and Canons" is, err, this article (and all the other hits without Wikipedia are uncredited mirrors of this article), I think you're the one who needs to show that the cathedral website and the National Archives website are wrong. Bencherlite ^Talk 21:30, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully my rewording avoids the problem. Bencherlite ^Talk 21:35, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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