Talk:Peru national football team/Archive 1

Archive 1

Blue Sash

I didnt remember last time i saw Peru with a sky blue sash, its back to red now :) --Nasdaq 01:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Further Improvements

The article has greatly improved since it was first rated due to the help it has been getting by various people. Now, we need to further plan out how to make the article even better. Make some suggestions here (Which is the purpose of the discussion page, I suppose) so that others understand what you're planning to do or what you would want for the article to have. I myself would like if somebody with a greater knowledge on the subject to expand on how the Peruvian team has done in the Copa America (As a preview, like the section previous to the "World Cup and Qualifiers"). Perhaps also somehow mention more about Peru in other tournaments like in the Kirin Cup, Gold Cup, and Olimpics. I will also keep contributing to the article. But, are there any other ideas you might have? MarshalN20 22:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

~The article is looking more and more impressive, a far cry from its previous status.Selecciones de la Vida 05:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, I've expanded the article as far as I can imagine it can be expanded. Now perhaps it just needs some more citations. I'll try searching for those. Great job everyone, this article definately looks much better than last time; and I even dare say this article has every right to be nominated for something higher than a "B" rating. In comparisson to the majority of the other football articles (Even those of the higher-ranked teams. Hahaha.), this article is helpful and well-organized. Then again, we eventually should also start to think about moving the U-17 article to its own Wikipedia article; but right now I think it's fine to keep it in here since right now the U-17 doesn't have much history on their backs.MarshalN20 13:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I would recommend getting information such as when the first international was played, biggest win and worse defeat regarding the U-17 national football team, so when the article gets created, there won't be a problem filling the info-box. Selecciones de la Vida 16:50, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

As suggested by the peer review, the stuff on the World Cup and Copa America (not the records, though) should be merged into History. When you first enter the article page, there are several titles which kind of distract the reader. I think it would be best that there should be subtitles under History used instead of various new titles. --MicroX 23:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the Interesting Facts section because:

1. Trivia sections are discouraged per WP:MOS
2. The stuff in that section were already integrated into the article.

I also moved the citation for the chalaca move into the article. --MicroX 23:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

~I would like to first begin by thanking you, MicroX, for taking the time to want to discuss this article. Now that you have openly stated your ideas, I can see what you want to do.

Now, back on subject, yes, it was a good idea for you to delete the trivia-like section of the article. Yet, I disagree that the World Cup History and the Copa America history should be merged in with the "General History" of the Peruvian team. The reasons to this are that: World Cup History and Copa America history are specific sections of the article that specifically discuss those subjects; and it would be highly illogical to truncate these sections that have been hardly worked on. I read your ideas in the bottom part of this discussion section, I'll continue this discussion on that part.MarshalN20 (talk) 00:07, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Then let's just make the Copa America and World Cup sections subtitles of History. They would fit underneath perfectly and it would make sense. We should rearrange the content in history a bit to make it look like this:

==Last and next games==
==History==
→La Blanquirroja in the FIFA World Cup
→Copa America
→Records
→La Blanquirroja in other tournaments
==Home stadium==
==Noted players==
==Recent matches==
==Current squad==
==Managers==
==Kit evolution==
==Football rivalries==
==Under 17 team==
==See also==
==References==
==External links==

--MicroX 19:40, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

~That's perfect. I'll make the "Alternate Stadiums" sub-section.MarshalN20 (talk) 23:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I did some major editing to the article, including the re-arranging of various parts and deletion of the U-17 section (since there's a whole article for it already, there's no need for it in the Peru national team article). The format I based this re-arranging on was a Wikipedia structure for football articles, and the above suggestion by MicroX. Some things I did not do was mixing the individual histories of the tournaments Peru participated into the main "history" section of the article as I still think that the main history should be an overview while the individual sections for the tournaments should be more in-depth to the actual participation of Peru. It was also suggested, by Victor12, that the format of the article get somewhat closer to the Scotland national football team article, so I tried imitating some of the things in that article, but did not completely follow their structure such as (at least the way I see it) their first history section which looked as if somebody had simply got a bunch of information and stuck it in there for the heck of it (and put a bunch of sources along with it). Adding to it that I don't think it would be deserving for this article to be a complete imitation of the Scottish team article. On the overall, I really think this article should get a GA rating. I know more references are needed, there are some POV problems, and some grammar mistakes, but that only means the article is still not ready to be an FA class article, it does not mean that the rating cannot go up into a GA, for the least.--~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarshalN20 (talk • contribs) 16:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. You might want to try your luck at WP:GAN then. As that page is backlogged it might take a while before this article is reviewed. In the meantime we can keep on improving it. --Victor12 (talk) 17:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Failed good article nomination

This article's nomination on Good Article Candidates has been failed due to a lack of references. Facts which could potentially be questioned by a sceptical reader should be attributed to a reliable source. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources for more details. YouTube videos should not generally be used as references. Oldelpaso 17:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

It should however be noted that this is a very good article, maybe not very far from FA status once the citation problem has been fixed. Please note also the style guidelines at WP:CITE: all citations should be inline and correctly formated using cite book and cite web templates. Keep up the good work and good luck for your next nomination!--SidiLemine 17:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

For further improvement and suggestions you might want to submit the article for peer review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Peru/Peer review. You'll be sure to get some useful reviews. Greetings, --Victor12 17:53, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Most of the contributions I've made to the article come from basically translating a lot of text from the Spanish article into here. Of course, I have also added a lot of visual candy for the reader to have an easier and entertaining read for a sports article and have tried to make the article more ordered (As an encyclopedia should be). Nearly all of the statements I have translated from the Spanish article held no citations that I could use, but I added only the information that I know for a fact that is true. Of course, I know about there needs to be a reliable verification to the statements. Perhaps someone could volunteer to go scout the information for reference (BTW, I agree YouTube really isn't something that should be used as a reference)?MarshalN20 18:38, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Mini-peer review

I did a small peer review and these are the suggestions it gave me. The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.^[?]
• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long – consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.^[?]
• This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, then an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail.^[?]
• Please make the spelling of English words consistent with either American or British spelling, depending upon the subject of the article. Examples include: favorite (A) (British: favourite), defense (A) (British: defence), organise (B) (American: organize), recognize (A) (British: recognise), counter-attack (B) (American: counterattack), skillful (A) (British: skilful).
• Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
  • Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. I think we need to work on deciding if the article should be American English or British English and reducing the size of the article because it is very long. Thanks, MicroX 23:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

~The idea of the recent and previous games for the article was very good. Yet, I would not like for the section showing all the games the team has recently played to be erased. It is not long, and it really is necessary to show the team's results. Perhaps once that section gets long, it can be made into a new article (specifically for the purpose of seeing the records of the recent matches of the Peruvian national team).

• The table of contents is long, but it does not have unnecessary sections. All of the section titles there are relevant to the article.

• The Subpage idea is fantastic. I had pondered about that for a while, but I wasn't really sure as to how to make it (the only article I've created was the Chile-Peru Football Rivalry, and it survived due to the help of another editor) into a good one. This is the idea I had:

-Make a page called "History of the Peruvian National Football Team," and there send the long information in the sections of the World Cup (Qualifiers and Participations), the Copa America (Participations), and summarize the "General History" and add the long section currently in this article into the new article.

• I have already made little summaries of the Copa America and World Cup sections. Perhaps they could be improved, but I think they are a good base for the summary.

• The "Players Recently Retired From the Team" section seems irrelevant to me (I know I'm contradicting what I previously said, but I just noticed this one). I did not bother to erase it previously because I really didn't care much for it. Yet, now that you mention that the table at the beginning may be too long, perhaps that section could be taken out?

• The American/British spelling thing mainly comes from previous and current editors in this article. I really don't think it is much of a big deal, but if you think that will make the article better, then by all means you can do that.

• I have to admit that I contributed to parts of the redundancy in the article. Sorry about that. Editing that would be a magnificent idea.

• Aside from the redundancy, I have been trying to constantly fix spelling mistakes and other minor errors several editors (past and new) make. I think that some of the problems come from some of the editors at times not being very "efficient" in the English language, but their contributions turn out being good when they are fixed with propper grammar.

Well, that's all I've got to write for now. I can tell that your editing, MicroX, will greatly improve this article. Just please take into consideration some of the things I've pointed out. If you need any help with the article, don't doubt to contact me (I'll try my best to help).MarshalN20 (talk) 00:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Ticket image copyright

I've got two tickets right now that are for a Peruvian FIFA World Cup Qualifier. Would it be a copyright violation if I scanned them and uploaded them onto Wikipedia for this article? --MicroX 19:52, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

-If you've bought the tickets, then I see no reason as to why you wouldn't be able to post them. Yet, the only problem I would see with this is in the case the ticket has some trademarks in it. If you can, after you scan the picture try to make those trademarks blurry as to there won't be a problem with the company. Other than that, since you bought the ticket, you have the right to do whatever you want with it.MarshalN20 (talk) 00:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I'd have to blur out the Teleticket logo. However, the Teleticket logo does not show a ®, ©, or ™ logo on it. I've noticed that most Peruvian companies don't trademark or register their logos.

-That's a terrible trend with Peruvian companies, but nonetheless (for courtesy), it would be best to simply respect their "trademark" (even if they really haven't registered the logo). It's better to simply stay away from that kind of trouble. Also, something I was thinking about, if you're going to go to the game; perhaps you could try to take some pictures of the game so that you can later upload one photo for the article? I know it's hard to bring in cameras into the Peruvian stadium (Especially with the risk of it getting stolen), but the article would greatly benefit from a picture of the team actually playing.MarshalN20 (talk) 06:24, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I've been planning that for a while now. I'm going to take a camera and take pictures of both the stadium and the team. However, I'd prefer to go to the Nacional because the article on the Nacional does not have a picture that shows the entire stadium. --MicroX 13:53, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Home stadium:Estadio Monumental U?

The traditional stadium of Peru is the Estadio Nacional. But the Estadio Monumental "U" is used now by the team. I think it would be logical to include something on the Monumental in the Home Stadium section. --MicroX 02:27, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

-Technically speaking, the Monumental is not really the "Home Stadium." You're completely correct, though, in stating that the team has recently been using the Monumental (I've read several papers stating that the coach has said he preffers to use that stadium due to controversies with the synthetic field) as the stadium. I think a sub-section within the Home Stadium section called: "Alternative Stadiums" would come in handy. Sometimes the team has also used the Alejandro Villanueva stadium, I think if I remember well, and also the Cusco stadium. So on that "Alternative Stadiums" sub-section there can be a mention of all the alternative stadiums used by the team (the current one at the top, of course).MarshalN20 (talk) 06:28, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

You've added the alternate stadiums which is good but we should try to make the information in each section relevant to the National Team. Also, when has Peru played at the Garcilaso? --MicroX 02:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

~I'm not sure if Peru has ever played in the Garcilaso; but here's this little something:

"Silva said the decision on the location of the Oct 13 clash with Paraguay would be taken soon and that three stadium's are under consideration: Cusco's Garcilaso de la Vega Stadium, which is also 3,400 metres above sea level, and the Monumental Stadium.

Both stadiums are included in the FIFA list, alongside Lima's National Stadium and Alejandro Villanueva Stadium, even though the world football governing body is opposed to official games being played at more than 3,000 metres above sea level."

Even if Peru has not actually played in the stadium, they are part of the list of alternate stadiums the team planned to use. Though, unless somebody really knows, it should not be stated in the article that Peru has or has not played at that venue.MarshalN20 (talk) 18:07, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Peru-Brazil Images

Here are some images that I took during the game. Unfortunately, I didn't take many because I was so caught up with the game. And to make matters worse, one of the pictures that was of the team warming up before the game was erased when I accidently stepped on my camera. The sun was very bright that day, which made one of the pictures come out badly.

Image:PeruBrazil final.JPG‎
Image:Monumental Sur Camiseta.JPG‎
Image:PeruBrazilanthems.JPG‎
Image:Monumental U Occidente.JPG

I plan on going to the next home game. The next home 2010 World Cup Qualifier is in June but there are three FIFA-fixed-date friendlies in February, March, and August. So there could possibly be a home game on one of those days. Finally, we should try to place these pics in appropriate places in the article. --MicroX 00:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice work. I specially like the second and fourth ones. I see that you have already linked the latter and I was wondering where can we place the former. Any ideas? --Victor12 (talk) 01:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I've got two more that picture the northern stand with a red banner that says Yo pongo el aliento and one that has the Peruvian National Police marching on the field. Would they be of any use in this or any other article?

The Monumental U Occidente could go under an Alternative Stadiums section as suggested by MarshalN20. --MicroX 03:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

~Second and Fourth are the best. I think I know where I can add them in the article...MarshalN20 (talk) 23:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

confusing citation

In the article, while I was fixing citations, I found this one. What is it suppose to be?

<ref>Allan Pedersen, "Kroghs oprejsning", ''[[Ekstra Bladet]]'', 20 January 1997</ref>

I need to know so that I can use it in the appropriate template. --MicroX 03:43, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

It's apparently something related to the goalkeeper of that team during the U.S. cup. I'm really not sure what it is, other than that.MarshalN20 (talk) 23:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Estadio Nacional pictures

Anyone know if the Estadio Nacional is open during the week to the public. I thought of going there to take a good picture of the stadium. There aren't many good or whole free images on Commons or the web. A good picture of the Nacional would be great. I don't think the Monumental will be national team's ground for very long and as soon as someone removes the artificial turf, everyone's going to want to go back. So it'd be best to have a good picture ready. --MicroX 21:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

new year, new fixtures

The new year has started so I will remove all of last years games, except for the four World Cup Qualifiers and start putting the games for this year. --MicroX 22:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good, except that the record so far is not so good for Peru. lol. MarshalN20 (talk) 02:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Contradiction

About the Estadio Nacional, the article currently states that inaugurated on October 27, 1952, it is Peru's main stadium and has hosted all four Copa América's football competitions held in Peru between 1927 and 1957. This is a clear contradiction, how can a stadium inaugurated in 1952 host tournaments held before that year? --Victor12 (talk) 18:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

As confusing as this may sound, the stadium was apparently previously inaugurated with another name, then it was re-modeled (or something of that ilk) and renamed, and then it was "officially" inaugurated (or for technical purposes, "re-inaugurated") in 1952. I used the information that the Wikipedia link carried me to, but I think it would be best to look for a more concrete source (I might not have the time, so if somebody else could do it that'd be great, but if not, I'll find one eventually).-- MarshalN20 (talk) 04:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Improving Noted Players section

Well, I'm still interested in making this article become FA some day, but at the moment seek to for the least make it to GA. Yet, the section of Noted Players, with its long list of players and no sources to verify such claims, will certainly not serve well in this first step. Hence, I will be trying to find articles validating several of the players from the list. Nonetheless, help from other members interested would also come in quite handy.--MarshalN20 (talk) 05:24, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Bolivarian Games: Peru has more than 4 Int. Titles?

I was looking around for some links to the "Notable Players" (Used to be "Noted Players," but "Notable" sounds better and makes more sense), and suddenly discovered that Peru the peruvian team had participated and won a series of games known as the "Bolivarian Games." Moreover, I found that this games are backed by the Olympic Comittee and even has judges from the United States as a means of showing the validity of these games. Not only that, and rather surprisingly, the Peruvian delegations had won a series of medals in these games and had even reached top in the medal count, with a historic third place in the competition. The more relevant news for this article come from the apparent fact that the Peruvian football team had won gold in a series of these tournaments...which means that (considering teams from other nations participate) Peru has more than just 4 international titles, and the first international title for Peru did not come during the Copa America of 1939, but rather during the Bolivarian games of 1938! The Bolivarian Games are apparently still played, so any news, links, or whatnot relevant to this article that can be found would be welcomed.--MarshalN20 (talk) 15:20, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Incidents at the 1936 Olympics

Hi everybody. I think this is an issue to be improved: it has the appropriate attention but not enough precision. The match was a violent one and had many irregularities that should be stated, primely the match's own termination (with the unclear circumstances surrounding the decisive goals). Some of these irregularities (and, of course, the fact that they lost) led the Austrians protests when the match was declared finished. Another important statistical fact is that the original result (4:2) was declared null, hence it isn't recognized neither by IOC or FIFA. For the official records, Austria had a "win over" Peru when the Peruvians retired themselves from the competition (after rejecting the IOC's resolution on the conflict). All this can be checked within the official IOC reports of the competition. See for instance http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936v2sum.pdf (pages 1050-1054). I post this here and not in the main article because I want to prevent any controverse. If it's ok to you, in a couple of days I'll insert some of this in the article. Suggestions? Opinions? Ipsumesse (talk) 19:22, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Would you please state what exactly you're trying to introduce into the article? By this I mean what's your point. I've read through the information, and one of the first things that I did not find was that the match "was violent." According to the file, the match was "energetic" (which is a phrase that can be taken into a wide range of meanings; but no specific mention of the word "violent" is mentioned). As far as it goes for irregularities, the only thing that seems to be a fact was that the fans went into the field as a sign of joy when they saw their team do so well. For one thing, the file only contains information that "Peruvian fans stormed the field," but other than that it does not mention what either the Austrian fans or the Austrian football players did. Next, the file states that a football player of Austria claimed he had been kicked by a Peruvian fan...but that was simply his opinion. Whether he was lying or stating the truth, it will never be known. The 4:2 result was indeed declared null, but that does not mean that the score should not be taken into official account. The Peruvians left the tournament because of the irregularities that went on against them because they were in a foreign country, were ruled against them by an IOC composed of Europeans that took no consideration on having the Peruvian commitee give an explanation, and the current situation in the world at that time.--MarshalN20 (talk) 15:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I once again reviewed the information provided by Ipsumesse, and included a more neutral position on that matter. However, details of the event should only be included in the actual page concerning this, I believe it is called Peru at the Olympics or something of that ilk.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 18:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Good Article Nomination

Well, it has taken nearly 2 years for the article to be once again nominated. This time, however, it seems to me that is by far stronger and much better than the prior attempt. The article is by no means ready to be a Featured Article, but it is on its way. Perhaps, I could have been more ambitious and nominated it for an "A" class status, but for the moment would like for the article to get a step-by-step approval that will (hopefully) come with more improvement suggestions. The main, and perhaps the only problem, at this point and time are the references. Several of them are simple and basic, and need improvement. However, the links all work and the references are factual; in other words, this should not be a determining factor for a GA status.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Requested merge

I suggest that the content of Peru national football team squads is merged into this article. It is currently a content fork and should be covered in appropriate sections in this article in the same way that the current squad and recent call-ups and the previous squads are covered more concisely in the England national football team article. King of the North East 20:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

It seems to me that including a whole list of players who played for the team is somewhat redundant to the article. It's basically beating around the bush on a section that should merely include the players of the actual team.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 06:02, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

GA review pt.1 (quickfail criteria)

Per WP:RGA#First things to look for, here's a quick assessment of the page to ensure it doesn't warrant an "instant fail", before I review it in depth

1. The article completely lacks reliable sources – see Wikipedia:Verifiability. Y
2. The topic is treated in an obviously non-neutral way – see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Y
3. There are cleanup banners that are obviously still valid, including {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{NPOV}}, {{unreferenced}} or large numbers of {{fact}}, {{clarifyme}}, or similar tags. Y
4. The article is or has been the subject of ongoing or recent, unresolved edit wars. Y
5. The article specifically concerns a rapidly unfolding current event with a definite endpoint. Y

So everything's fine here. I'll have a closer look at it over the next couple of hours, but may possibly reserve commenting until later this evening, as my home PC allows me greater flexibility to look at layouts etc in different browsers and at different resolutions. --DeLarge (talk) 12:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to review the article. Hopefully everything else is correct. I've been going around to different GA reviews related to this same topic, and from them I fixed a series of things (including the references, and en dashes for scores, and the summarizing of sections). Perhaps the only section which might seem to need summarizing is the "history," but I have already read and re-read (3 times, to be honest), and I cannot find any other way to summarize things. Maybe the reason is that I have been the one who created, referenced, and improved the history section. However, my reasoning is that the Peruvian team is quite old and hence has an long history, has done a series of interesting things throughout its history that need mentioning, and the CONMEBOL football region it is located on has allowed it to do a series of "historical" things. In comparisson, several countries from the UEFA have barely any chances to win the Eurocup, qualify for the WC (even though Europe does get the larger spots for the tournament), or do anything truly "historical" of mention. Well, that's it for my long statement, thank you for evaluating the article.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 12:47, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

GA review pt.2

This article was nominated for good article status. The review began on March 12, 2009. Below is an evaluation of the article, according to the six good article criteria.

Sorry for the delay—had a wee problem with my PC, and I've had to revert to using my laptop for now. In advance, I should disclose that I'll occasionally refer to Scotland national football team for comparison, since it's FA-class. That's not to say I think this page should follow that article slavishly, but it's a good point of comparison.

And even though I'm Scottish, I won't hold 1978 against you... ;)

1. Well written?:  Done

Prose quality:

• I prefer the opening sentence in the Scottish article; it seems more logical to me to say what something is before mentioning who controls it. You just need to swap the two sentence clauses around.
• "Created in 1927, the team competes with nine other teams in the CONMEBOL conference within FIFA." Since (a) CONMEBOL is not an acronym which transparently explains the region it represents, and (b) we unfortunately live in a world with a lot of geographical ignorance, I think this sentence should mention your continent explicitly. How about "Created in 1927, the team competes with nine others in the South American CONMEBOL conference within FIFA" (also removes the repeated "team")?
• "The Peruvian teams are often said to play with much technique and elegance, making them one of the finest exponents of South American football." I think this is a tiny bit POV for the lede. It may be verifiable, but it's still subjective, and the website blurb used to source it is quite loaded with praise. I'd either omit the sentence entirely, or insert it further down in the main body, as long as you can find a suitable place for it.
• Although it's mentioned in the infobox, it's easy to overlook that the team's nickname is La Blanquirroja, so when it's suddenly introduced in the ==Creation of National Team== section it's a bit out-of-the-blue. See if you can find a way to introduce the nickname, as well as translating it. Even the lede might be OK for this. Also, whenever you use the nickname, I think it reads better when prefixed with "la", instead of "the". I'll strike through this, but I suspect you could move it to a more prominent position. On a whim I had a look at Italy national football team, since they're another country whose nickname (L'Azzuri) is based on their colours. Sure enough, they have a section in the lede to explain it. Ultimately it's up to you, though.
• The {{Peru Squad 1930s Golden Generation}} template needs tidied. I'd put the coaches on a separate line to the players, and you need to put a space between the coaches' names and their parenthesized dates of service.
• In ==1970s Golden generation==, you need to tidy the prose a wee bit. "Peru reached the top of their group after defeating the Scotland of Ally McLeod (3–1)" should just begin "Peru reached the top of their group after defeating Scotland (3–1)". If you must mention the manager, it's spelled Ally MacLeod, but since you don't mention the coaches of Iran or the Netherlands, I'd say the sentence is improved by just cutting his name out entirely.
• The ==From glory to decadence== section heading seems misnamed. I don't think decadence is being used properly here, unless there's more to Peruvian football in the 1980s than is being described. "Decline" might be a better alternative (or "tragedy", or "despair").
• Templates. On the bright side, most of the templates are collapsed, and don't interfere with the article. However, most of them, especially the various squad templates, are nearly all redlinked, so they're not serving a great function. Also, you might want to make nested templates for the World Cup and Copa America squads, so that when collapsed, only one template will be visible. Note: this is a style issue more than anything, so I don't think I'd fail the article if you said 'no'.
• In ==FIFA World Cup record==, would it be possible to convert the performance table to a de-flagged, single-column version with more statistical detail? See Scotland national football team#World Cup record for something which I think looks much better. Failing that, the tables at Brazil national football team#Competitive record seem more standardized across various articles. Note: this is a style issue more than anything, so I don't think I'd fail the article if you said 'no'.
• In the ==Uniform== section, would it be possible to explain why your strip uses the diagonal red band across the shirt? It's such a very unusual and distinctive design that I think passing readers would want to know more about. Of course, I understand that it may not be easy to source that info.
• Minor outstanding issues listed below.

Manual of Style compliance:  Done

• Italics: there's a few occasions where I'd italicize, per WP:MOSTEXT#Foreign terms; you've done it sometimes, but not always. "Federación Peruana de Fútbol" in the opening sentence, and "chalaca" in the ==History== section should both be in italics. The latter should definitely not be bolded, though. Conversely, there's an instance where you italicized "Peruvian Football League" in ==History==, and I don't think it's required.
• Diacritics: Since the current WP standard is to use diacritics for people's names, I'd fix all the instances where you've not used them, e.g. Héctor Chumpitaz, Teófilo Cubillas, etc. You've done it with some, so as with the italics issue, this would make the article more consistent.
• Dates: I can see instances of years and centuries being wikilinked. It's an issue currently at arbitration, but long-term I think this practice has little support. Better than delinking, though, would be to convert all the year dates to wikilinks to XXXX in football links.
• Inline citations. There's a couple of instances, especially in the ==History== section, where what looks like uncontroversial statements are being supported by four or more citations. I'd say one [ref] for uncontroversial material, two for something which might be challenged, and three for the stuff most likely to be disputed. Remember that you can use multiple {{citation}} templates within a single <ref> tag.
• Per WP:MOSFLAG, I don't think José del Solar's name in the infobox needs the Peruvian flag beside it. Checking with the Scottish article, sure enough there's no flag there. There's a lot of flags used in the article overall, but I think they should be cut back a little. I don't think you should ever use the flag unless you've also written the country's name beside it (so the table in ==FIFA World Cup record==, already discussed above, is possibly in violation of the guideline).

2. Factually accurate and verifiable?:  Done

References to sources:

Citations to reliable sources, where required:

No original research:

• Ref #13, clubatleticochalaco.com, seems to be dead. One of three citations for a sentence, so safe to remove, I think.
• Ref #15, the second link is to the print version (it brings up the print dialogue box automatically). A non-print version should most likely be available from the same site.
• Ref #19, gives me a malware warning, and
• Ref #22, first link is dead, third link gives me a malware warning. Given the context of the sentence, it may be possible to just remove these two, and combine refs #20, #21 and the rest of #22 at the end of the sentence?
• Ref #23, the same as ref #18, and can be combined.
• Ref #31, the second citation is the same as ref #30, and can be combined.

Other referencing issues which I won't mark you down for, but which FA reviewers will require to be fixed:

• Ref #43, Geocities site, self-published hence not reliable.
• Ref #84, Tripod site, self-published hence not reliable.
• Ref #25 & 31, per WP:ALLCAPS, we usually transcribe reference headlines from all-capitals to regular prose.
• Ref #56, 62, 79, 80, 85, & 86, these are all peru.com, which was earlier written as futbalperuano.com. I'd choose one or the other and stick with it.

3. Broad in coverage?:  Done

Major aspects: The cause of Peru's suspension by FIFA doesn't seem to be fully explained. It looks like the bbc.co.uk link to Tim Vickery's blog can be used for sources, though.

Focused:

4. Reflects a neutral point of view?:  Done

Fair representation without bias: Hmmmmmm... It starts very well, and I think your coverage of the most controversial topics (e.g. the bicycle kick dispute) is very even-handed. However, if you have a read through the entire article, there's a few instances of hyperbole begin to creep in. I wouldn't recommend completely removing everything, though; it's very easy for neutral prose to become neutered, and since football is a passionate game, good writing should convey that. Others might disagree, so I can't say for sure what'd happen if you ever tried to get this to Featured status. Making the tweaks below should deal with any POV issues. I don't see any overt bias running through the article, and both good and bad times are covered even-handedly.

5. Reasonably stable?  Done

No edit wars, etc. (Vandalism does not count against GA): Seems fine.

6. Illustrated by images, when possible and appropriate?:  Done

Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

• I won't shoot you down for all the FU images—I think Wikipedia is too strict in this regard—but can't guarantee that you won't run into trouble at a later time. Specifically, I think File:Peru Coaches.png, File:1936 Peru Olympians Returning.png, and File:Peru CopaAmerica 1975Champs.png would be the hardest to justify.

Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

• The biggest gap here seems to be the shirt crest in the infobox, which can surely be easily obtained and justified under fair use? All the other national team articles seem to have such a design layout, and it'd improve the immediate impression the page will leave with readers. Fix that and this section can be ticked off as OK.

That should get you started for now. There might be more to get through, since the problems with my PC tonight forced me to rush this review a little. I'll give it a much closer look over the weekend, covering all the prose in depth and checking all the references. Also, I'll try and do a quick copyedit sometime tomorrow, to fix small grammatical errors. Rather than detailing everything here, it's probably quicker to do those myself.

Overall though, an enjoyable read. I especially like the early history sections, since many Wikipedia articles are guilty of "recentism" and overlook how compelling the past can be.

Overall:

Pass or Fail:

If you feel the final result of this review has been in error, you may request a reassessment. If the article failed to attain Good Article status after a full review, it may be easier to address any problems identified above, and simply renominate it.

Wow. Thank you for your comments. Before I submited the article to the GA list, I was also attempting to model the article to that of the Scotland national football team. I'll do my best to fix all of the things that you have suggested, but it won't be an easy task since it's just me working with this relatively large article. However, I've been working on it alone for the most part. I'm most worried about the "original research" thing. Since, like I mentioned, it's been mainly just me working with the article, I do not know if what I have done in the article has any original research. In other words, if there's anything in there that constitutes original research, it really was by no means my intention to do that. As of now, I have included the FPF's logo (for the images), deleted the flags from the World Cup section, and deleted the flag from Jose del Solar's name.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 00:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Concerning the story of the red sash of Peru, I truly have no idea. However, I've heard three hypothesis from people (probably not factual): 1. The team was trying to copy River Plate's shirt design. 2. The team copied the design of the Uruguay national football team of 1901-1910. 3. The Peruvians simply got it that way because the person designing the shirt wanted to give the team a more "presidential" look (since the President of Peru, and other countries in the planet, tend to like wearing sashes around their chest).--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 00:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

"The Peruvian teams are often said to play with much technique and elegance, making them one of the finest exponents of South American football." lol. I really like that statement. You're right in saying that it is a tad POV. I judged that since it was the CONMEBOL's website, then it could be counted as verifiable; but I'll move it down. I think it would fit in nicely with the "Notable Players" section.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 00:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

"Remember that you can use multiple {{citation}}: Empty citation (help) templates within a single <ref> tag." I'm not sure how to do that. I've done an attempt in citation n. 13. Yet, I'm not sure if that is correct. Could you please show me an example?--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 12:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, I've struck through the tasks you've completed so far, which has made a good difference to the workload. Tomorrow, I'll go through everything as part of #2. Nothing in particular looks like original research, but I suppose we'll see. The biggest concern I have in advance is the quality of the references; I can see a few occasions where you've referenced about.com and tripod.com, so it'll depend on the context whether I think they need sorted. On the surface though, it certainly doesn't look problematic.

With regards to the two MoS sections above which I haven't yet struck through (italics and diacritics), I'll need to go through the article in detail to check everything. Again, it's something I'm likely to leave until tomorrow. If I do find any instances you've overlooked, I can probably just fix them myself.

RE: the origin of the red sash — ah well, if you don't know, you don't know. Better to omit these details until proper confirmation can be found, rather than guessing. I had a Google around myself and couldn't find anything either. You're not limited only to online sources, though. What I might recommend is that you contact the FPF directly and see if they can assist. Of course, you can't cite an e-mail reply, but if they can give you the answer, they can maybe also give you a source to support you as well, or at least point you in the right direction. Of course that would take time and is beyond the scope of the GA review, but you might want to think about it if you ever want to get this article promoted to Featured status in the future.

Also, I found Football in the Americas in a Google Book search which a local library might be able to get hold of. And I've e-mailed someone on the Isle of Skye, in an attempt to contact the author of A Statistical History of Football in Peru on your behalf. That's a long shot, but you never know what'll turn up. ;)

There's no need for me to explain the ref tags—what you did with citations #13 and #20 is exactly what I meant. It's not the way I'd always do it, but for uncontroversial statements, it stops the "overload" of references. Regards, --DeLarge (talk) 20:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I've contacted the FPF, but I'm not sure they will reply to my questions. I've tried to do all of the italics and diacritics that you mentioned, but I can't certify that there are more or that there are none. Thanks for the books. I'll probably have to buy them as my local library is horrible at having these kind of things (nobody cares about football where I live; you can probably guess which country that is). As for the FIFA World Cup section, I will make the table into a single column (like in the Scotland article); but I cannot do the same for the Copa America section since it would really stretch the article down. As for the templates, this might sound really dumb but I do not know what a "nested" template is (I'll try to figure it out, so if you read this and see that I have not nested the templates then it's probably because I did not figure it out). Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll next attempt to take this article into an "A" class status; of course, that's hoping it first passes this GA review.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 20:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

"Failing that, the tables at Brazil national football team#Competitive record seem more standardized across various articles." I'll follow the method of the Scotland article. Even though you're right that other articles have a different and more standard section, I believe this might be one of the reasons the Scotland article is FA and the rest are not. Aside from that, I think that I nested the templates (not really sure if it's right).--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 14:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Nested templates are where one parent template contains multiple child templates, and collapsing the parent means all the templates are hidden. It's done to minimize the amount of space the templates take up.

There's examples at Help:Template#Nesting templates, or I could point you towards {{Mitsubishi Motors}}, a nested template used on Mitsubishi Motors. It's a personal preference whether or not you want all the templates to be visible, but I felt that while most of the links are red, it's as well keeping the templates' impact to a minimum.

I've been told by the author that the book isn't available, though he offered to help with specific queries I might have. I've e-mailed a reply to see if he knows anything about the strip design, but it's probably a long shot. --DeLarge (talk) 19:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

That's good. Hopefully we'll get some information on the matter of the shirt (I would really like to know this too). Thus far I've nested the templates and done the chart fixes in the FIFA World Cup section.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 21:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

(<-- outdent) I've copyedited the article to try and catch all the remaining diacritics, so I'll score that out as done. I also came across one or two instances of links to disambiguation pages, so fixed them too. Finally, I standardized every reference to Valdir Pereira, so it look the same in every instance (I was slightly confused by his nickname not being used in the photo caption, and didn't realise it was a picture of Didi).

I've left the italics as is, except for the reference to Combinado del Pacifico. It's complicated by the fact that as far as I can tell, Copa América is rarely italicized on Wikipedia. Also, re-reading the GA review criteria, I think it's unnecessary to nitpick over MoS issues. That's a job for the FA reviewers. Still, in the long term, I think you'll have to decide whether or not to italicize all the stadia, tournaments, etc which have Spanish names.

I'll start going through the references just now, and also start listing any POV language. I might not get finished tonight, though—it's a long article! Regards, --DeLarge (talk) 21:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Sounds fantastic! If you have any question about the sources (especially those in Spanish), feel free to ask me about them. Thanks again for your review.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 03:37, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Minor issues to be dealt with

General points  Done

First, there's a few times that you begin a sentence with "However". For most style guides this isn't wrong (the strictest exception is, I believe, Strunk & White's The Elements of Style), but you might want to change a few instances to "Nevertheless", just for variety.

Second, there's a lot of times where you mention the city where a match took place, especially in the 1970s and 80s. For this, I think the correct term would be <team> in <city>, not "at". Conversely, if you mention the stadium then "at" would be correct, e.g. "...Scotland in Glasgow", but "...Scotland at Hampden Park". However, I'm not convinced that mentioning the city is relevant.

Specific edits needed  Done

• Historically, Peru's traditional rival is the football team of Chile
  • You don't need both "historically" and "traditional" here.

• During the 1930s, featuring players such as Teodoro Fernández and Alejandro Villanueva, Peru participated in the first FIFA World Cup, the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics, won at the inauguration of the Bolivarian Games, and won their first Copa América in 1939.
  • This line needs tweaked, since it reads like the 1936 Olympic Games was the first FIFA World Cup, and some wikilinks need changed: "During the 1930s, featuring players such as Teodoro Fernández and Alejandro Villanueva, Peru participated in the first FIFA World Cup, the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics, won at the inaugural Bolivarian Games, and won their first Copa América in 1939."

• Currently, Peru has gained a series of disastrous results that have led it on a downfall in the rankings.
  • "Disastrous" is too strong a word. It's OK to describe the air crash of 1987 as a disaster, but not a mere series of poor results on the pitch. Also, I'd change "currently" to "As of 2009". And I think it should be "fall down the rankings"; the current version implies that the entire ranking system is collapsing, rather than just Peru's individual ranking.

• During their free time, the English sailors resorted to playing football and they invited the local Chalacos (people from Callao) to participate in their games. Allegedly, it was during these early games...
  • "Resorted" isn't quite right. There's an implication that the sailors played football because they had no better alternative. I suspect the reality is they played football any chance they got. Also, since you use "games" early in the second sentence, I think you can stop the first sentence after "participate" to avoid repetition.

• Even though the Peruvian Football Federation had joined CONMEBOL in 1925, internal and economic problems prevented the creation of a national footbal team that would officially participate in their tournaments.
  • Second "football" is redundant in this context.

• The time that followed saw the appearance of a group of excellent Peruvian football players.
  • I think I'd prefer "talented" or "skilful" here. "Excellent" seems a slightly POV assessment of just how good they were.

• During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Peru made a great start by defeating the Finland national football team with a margin of 7–3.
  • You could get away with just "Finland" here.

• Next, the Peruvians defied all odds and managed to defeat Austria by a 4–2 result during over-time.
  • This is a bit POV, in light of the fact that you do not explain why. What I'd do here is add the adjectival "highly fancied" or "pre-tournament favorites", and wikilink Austria to the more specific Wunderteam article: "Next, the Peruvians upset the pre-tournament favorites Austria, 4–2 after extra time."

• However, the complete Olympic delegations of Peru and Colombia left Germany due to a controversial situation with the International Olympic Committee and the German government that led to the nullification of Peru's victory against Austria and the ordering a re-match. To this day, it is not known with certainty what exactly happened at Germany, but it is popularly believed that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi authorities might have had some involvement in this situation.
  • A bit of a run-on sentence. How about: "However, the International Olympic Committee controversially nullified the result and ordered a re-match, and the complete delegations of Peru and Colombia left Germany in protest. To this day it is not known with certainty what exactly happened at Germany, but some assert that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi authorities were involved."

• ...and a struggling Peru managed to tie Argentina twice in two games to finally lose in the third match by 3–0.
  • Since you've already mentioned Argentina as the opponents, it should just be "...and a struggling Peru managed to draw twice before finally losing the third match 3–0."

• However, Peru would not even get close to achieving another international title until 1949.
  • No need for "even".

• ...and defeated the England of Walter Winterbottom by a score of 4–1.
  • As before, do you need Winterbottom mentioned? "...and defeated England by a score of 4–1" seems sufficient.

• Nevertheless, this story would soon change once in the 1970s.
  • If you look at the first sentence of ==1970s Golden generation== it's very similar to this one, the last of the previous section. I'd just remove this last sentence.

• The national team continued to show signs of shine in the 1980s.
  • "Signs of shine" isn't correct. "...continued to occasionally shine"?

• La Blanquirroja managed to successfully qualify for the 1982 qualifiers at the expense of Colombia and, the favorites and Mundialito winners, Uruguay.
  • Doesn't quite read right. "Qualify" and "qualifiers" together, and the end of the sentence isn't ideal. Also, "Mundialito" redirects to FIFA World Cup mascot, which I presume is incorrect.

• The Peruvians needed a victory against Argentina in order to directly qualify to the World Cup, but the Argentina of Diego Maradona...
  • "Argentina" is mentioned twice here, and per precedent earlier in the article, saying "of Maradona" implies he is the manager. I'd splice that out unless he was absolutely pivotal in the match.

• The Chileans defeated la Blanquirroja both at Chile and Peru...
  • Repetition again. "La Blanquirroja were defeated both at Chile and Peru..."?

• The terrible 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster further crushed the hopes for the team...
  • Since any disaster will by definition be terrible, you don't need the second word here.

• If that were not enough, in November 2008 the Peruvian Football Federation, the Peruvian league, referees and officials, and national football team were suspended by FIFA due to the problems between the Peruvian Football Federation and the Peruvian Institute of Sport.
  • Two problems here. The sentence could be simplified to "If that were not enough, in November 2008 Peru's Federation, League, referees and officials, and national team were all suspended by FIFA due to the problems between the Peruvian Football Federation and the Peruvian Institute of Sport." More importantly, is there an explanation of what those problems were, and whether they were overcome (I've asked this in the GA review template, above)?

Sorry about hitting you with a big pile like that, but as I said they're all small tweaks

That's OK. The more improvements, the better. I believe that every point you mentioned should be fixed by now.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 20:54, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

The article is looking much better now thanks to your constructive criticism DeLarge, thank you! I think that now all of the reference problems should have been fixed.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 22:36, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Yup, that looks like all my remarks have been covered. Happy to give this a pass after all your work, so congratulations. It was an enjoyable read, especially the stuff about the early history, the dispute over the bicycle kick's origins, and the Olympics in 1936; the Time magazine reference was a great source for that. Over here we all know about Jesse Owens' achievements, but it was interesting to read up on these "less publicized" events. --DeLarge (talk) 18:13, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you DeLarge. If there was a rating available for reviewers, I'd give you all of the stars available. I feel that the article now has bases that are strong enough for another level on the review ladder.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 00:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Nicknames

The Peruvian team has a series of different nicknames that I have heard throughout its history. Among these are "la Rojiblanca," "los Incas," "El equipo andino," "el equipo de los Andes," "El equipo de la franja," etc.

However, the only constant one that has been used throughout its history is "la Blanquirroja." In Spanish, that means the white-and-red. Now, there is also the similar name of "la Rojiblanca," which in Spanish means the red-and-white. You may ask what the difference is. Well, the first mention on the color in Spanish symbolizes the majority of the color throughout the kit. In the case of the white-and-red (blanquirroja), it serves to say that Peru's kit is more white than red (which is the original case). However, the red-and-white (rojiblanca) states that Peru's kit is more red than white (which serves with the alternate or second kits). I hope this did not sound too confusing.

Either way, I would not mind using both nicknames, or maybe even adding the third nickname of "los Incas" into the jumble. However, having too many nicknames within the article would make it highly unprofessional and confusing to the reader. For instance, if I did not know about the Peruvian football team, I'd be extremely confused if I saw that the article refered to the team as "la blanquirroja," "Peru," "Los Incas," "La rojiblanca," for I would have to associate all of those names to simply the Peru national football team.

I'd like to discuss this so that there will not be any problems in the future. So, what are your opinions on the matter?--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 11:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Como peruano quiero opinar que La Blanquiroja y La Rojiblanca(por los colores de la camiseta) son los nicknames oficiales de la selección peruana de futbol.
http://www.conmebol.com/articulos_ver.jsp?id=60321&slangab=S
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=873920.html
http://www.conmebol.com/articulos_ver.jsp?id=58707&slangab=S

Y todos los otros nicknames ..

• los incas mmm.. mejor dicho el equipo incaico (por nuesta cultura incaica),
  
• el equipo andino (por la cordillera, pero la verdad de 1000 veces 1 nos llamarán así),
  
• el equipo de los Andes ?(literalmente nunca lo escuché), el equipo de la franja ?(ese no es el Muni?)
  

.. son parte del folclore del futbol peruano y de la creatividad de la prensa deportiva. Saludos. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.42.59.113 (talk) 06:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

statement on playing style

even Marshall20 said "The Peruvian teams are often said to play with much technique and elegance, making them one of the finest exponents of South American football." lol. I really like that statement. You're right in saying that it is a tad POV. I judged that since it was the CONMEBOL's website, then it could be counted as verifiable; but I'll move it down". moving it down isn't exactly a solution. this is an encyclopaedia not a posting of opinions. if someone read this and knew nothing about Peruvian football they would think it is one of best sides in South America. really it is not just the last year they have struggled. LibStar (talk) 14:23, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

This article is about the national football team of Peru throughout its whole history. Recent events have set the team down, but that does not mean that throughout its history Peru has not had a regularly great squad. I stated that the statement was "a tad" POV as in the lead it sounded like Peru was currently one of the best squads in South America, which is exactly the same thing that the reviewer of the article had previously stated (It no longer being in the lead allows a serious reader to read every other important bit of information before they actually get to this statement). By analyzing the statement, you would find: The Peruvian teams are often said to play with much technique and elegance, making them one of the finest exponents of South American football. "are often said to play" does not equal "Currently play." Peruvian football history demonstrates (along with all of the references to it included in this article) that Peruvian teams generally play with "much technique and elegance, making them one of the finest exponents of South American football." "one of the finest exponents of" does not equal "is the finest" or "is the number one;" the statement merely includes Peru along the others.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 14:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

For the sake of ending the argument, you specifically state how "just the last year they have struggled," which basically identifies that you're using recent events as a way to judge a historical statement.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 14:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Furthermore, the location of the statement, in the "notable players" section, merely serves to indicate the generally good history of football the team has had and the players that were a part of it. This really is not a hard concept to understand.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

you're still trying to put a POV like a Peruvian fan into an encyclopaedia. often said means that you should be able to find multiple sources saying this. secondly, "one of" is weasel words, you could say "one of the best/biggest" etc without having to justify it and "often said" can be weasel as well. See WP:WEASEL. a better way to word this line is to say: CONMEBOL have said: LibStar (talk) 15:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

If all you wanted there to satisfy you was "CONMEBOL have said," then you should have just added that there yourself and not make a big childish deal about it.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 16:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

in addition the current sentence is framed like present tense. it does not say "in the past one of the finest exponents..." it's such a loaded and ambiguous statement that I think is inappropriate for an encyclopaedia. LibStar (talk) 15:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

The sentence is by no means ambiguous. It means what it states, and it is not in present tense. Read the sentence again: The Peruvian teams are often said to play with much technique and elegance, making them one of the finest exponents of South American football. It does not state that the team is currently playing great, and neither does it state that they are currently better than any other team in South America.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk)

the change is fine now. the statement could easily have the word, Brazilian, Argentinian, uruguayuan etc. Please avoid saying statements like "big childish deal about it" that is considered a personal attack. LibStar (talk) 03:49, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

If you have problems with the statement, then send a complaint to CONMEBOL as they are the ones who laid the foundations to it. Also, "you're still trying to put a POV like a Peruvian fan into an encyclopaedia" is a personal attack. Don't be a hypocrit as you made that personal attack on me first. Treat others as you want them to treat you.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 13:30, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

rather ridiculous to send a complaint to CONMEBOL isn't it? CONMEBOL can say what they want, it's how we present it as NPOV here not WP:FANCRUFT. the statement was actually questioned in the GA review as POV first. so lay off the personal attacks. LibStar (talk) 00:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

CONMEBOL is an organization that is much older than Wikipedia, and has the upper statement on whatever information they hold on a particular subject related to football from its confederation. If they say Peru holds an elegant style it is because they are describing the overall style of play that the team has had throughout its history (which is an important description of the team that does not fall under the standards of WP:FANCRUFT). This discussion is done.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 03:51, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

it does not mean it is solid undisputed fact, it is irrelevant if the organisation is older than Wikipedia, Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia, the statement is still a statement of opinion. quality of playing styles is subjective not objective. it is much like FIFA saying "Korea has one of best playing styles in Asia". LibStar (talk) 03:55, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

CONMEBOL's statement comes under a statement of opinion NOT a fact as defined here "Some sources may be considered reliable for statements as to their author's opinion, but not for statements of fact. A prime example of this are Op-ed columns that are published in mainstream newspapers. When discussing what is said in such sources, it is important to directly attribute the material to its author, and to do so in the main text of the Wikipedia article so readers know that we are discussing someone's opinion". Wikipedia:RS#Statements_of_opinion. LibStar (talk) 04:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

As I said, this discussion is done. However, I do recommend you to read this: Wikipedia:Recentism.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 04:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

well you're denying it's a statement of opinion not fact. and you're assuming everyone knows the last 100 year history of Peruvian football, when I first read this article, that statement stuck out. if CONMEBOL said over the last 100 years or something it would have made more sense. LibStar (talk) 04:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

You are quite persistent. I'm not "assuming" anybody to know the last 100 years of Peruvian football history. The statement is set on the 9th section of a 13 section article. I expect that anybody who reads this statement would have already read the history sections on the article. Even if somebody is reading quickly throughout the article and finds this statement to "stick out" and makes them go into despair and into a state of panic, it falls completely to their fault as the statement has already (basically) been explained in the several sections prior to it. As an example, it would be like somebody who attempts to understand a complex book by reading it quickly, but at the end does not really understand a particular statement in the last part of the book as it is dependent on the earlier part of the book; the reader is the only person who holds the fault.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 04:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

"it is much like FIFA saying "Korea has one of best playing styles in Asia"." If FIFA were to say something such as this, as an editor you would have to evaluate the statement for what it is while taking into account that FIFA, the top organization that regulates football, is the one who stated it. The statement would not be an opinion if its history demonstrates that it does indeed hold one of the best playing styles in Asia. An opinion, going by Plato's philosophy, would be a matter of half-facts and half-lies, which would be like saying something such as: "Korea had a large margin of victories during the 19th century, making it the best football squad of Asia of that century." (There you have "facts," which would be the large margin of victories, and a "lies," which would be the title of "the best" given to the football team). In Peru's case, no lie is found as it neither claims to have been "the best" nor does it exagerate on its playing style. In fact, you could even go on YouTube and check out some of Peru's old games (not that it serves as a matter of reference or source, but rather just so you can further understand the statement from CONMEBOL in the case you want something more than words).--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 04:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:CHILL given the amount of text you have written here you are obviously passionate about defending this statement of opinion. end of discussion as you said...LibStar (talk) 04:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Don't spend your time attempting to "hate" on the way I do things (some call it "swag" for short nowadays). If I write a lot is because I have plenty of resources to argue with. However, I am glad that you agree with me that this discussion is done. Have a merry time.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 04:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

Whoever nominated the article for reassessment seriously needs to learn to look at things before nominating.

1. The GA review is easily located the in the archive of the Peru national football team, at the top of the list. Since certain people apparently are inexperienced at looking at archives, I have now posted the link to the review at this page.

2. The only problems noted at the FA review were: Improve the writing of the article to meet FA standards, check a few sources that do not have access dates on them, and check the verifiability of a few sources (Which was a completely opinionated request, with the exception of the request to identify Mr. Pulgar-Vidal Otalora's credentials, as the GA review had found them to be acceptable).--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 20:49, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in responding to this request: I was travelling. I've added links to the archive from ArticleHistory. I believe the summary page in Wikipedia space can now be deleted. I've given the article a quick copyedit, but see no reason to open a reassessment at this time. As a general tip for future editing, please remember that this is an encyclopedia and avoid portentous use of tenses ("would become" etc.) to describe the narrative past of the subject. Geometry guy 21:33, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you.--//[*]MarshalN20[*]\\ (talk) 17:22, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Jaime Pulgar Vidal Otalora Credentials

I've contacted Mr. Pulgar Vidal Otalora in order to try to get his credentials as a historian and journalist. Hopefully he will provide us with his credentials.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Mensage para el señor Pulgar Vidal Otalora: Señor Jaime, para proveer sus credenciales por favor aprete el boton "edit" de esta seccion, y simplemente escriba (o copie y pegue los links que tenga para demostrar su calidad como historiador y periodista). Una vez mas le recuerdo que por favor no ponga nada personal, esto es solamente para verificar su estatus como profesional. Gracias por su colaboracion.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

JAIME FRANCISCO PULGAR VIDAL OTÁLORA

ESTUDIOS REALIZADOS

SUPERIORES: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Carrera de Historia Grado: Bachiller

Maestría en curso Especialidad Historia de América Latina Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Lima

EXPERIENCIA LABORAL INSTITUTO SAN IGNACIO DE LOYOLA: Docente curso Historia del Deporte. 2009 CABLE MÁGICO DEPORTES: Programa Partido Aparte. Reportajes de investigación sobre fútbol. 2008 a la actualidad CABLE MÁGICO DEPORTES: Investigación y redacción de guiones del Programa sobre historia del fútbol “Crónicas de balón” 2004- 2007 UNMSM: Jefe de práctica. Cursos: Historia de América 2. Historia de América 3. 2007 FRECUENCIA LATINA: Programa El Equipo. Jefe de Prensa. 2001 – 2003 ANDINA DE RADIODIFUSIÓN: Programa El Equipo. Jefe de Prensa. 1997 – 2001 PROGRAMA LA CLAVE CON CÉSAR HILDEBRANDT: Comentarista de Noticias Deportivas 1996 GLOBAL TELEVISIÓN:Programa Deportivo Acción. Reportero. Comentarista. Jefe de Prensa.1992 – 1997 REVISTA LA COPA Y LOS MEJORES: Jefe de Redacción. 1993 DIARIO LA TERCERA:Editor de Deportes. 1992 RADIO MIRAFLORES:Programa Hablemos de Deporte. Comentarista. 1991 DIARIO PÁGINA LIBRE: Sub Editor de Deportes.1990 REVISTA TODO FÚTBOL: Reportero. Coordinador periodístico. 1988 - 1989

PUBLICACIONES COMO HISTORIADOR

• “El padrino: los vínculos de Augusto B. Leguía con el mundo del fútbol”. En: Ciencias Sociales. Revista de Estudiantes de Ciencias Sociales; Lima, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Fondo Editorial de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Nº 1, mayo de 2007, pp. 99- 113.

• “La teoría de la dependencia y la historia política”. En: Uku Pacha. Revista de Investigaciones Históricas, Año 6, Nº 11, julio de 2007, pp. 147- 152.

• “A bastonazo limpio: la historia del primer clásico del fútbol peruano”. En: Aldo Panfichi, editor; Ese gol existe. Lima, Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, julio de 2008, pp. 111-134.

• “Discriminación en blanco y negro”. En: Frank Huamaní y María Aguirre, editores; Lima a través de la prensa. Lima, julio de 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.234.59.84 (talk) 00:23, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Perfect! The above information (in Spanish) has been provided by Mr. Pulgar Vidal Otalora. These are his credentials, and are important to the article as some of his information is used as references.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 06:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Muchas gracias señor Pulgar Vidal Otalora.--06:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Image

Curious as to why the image of the three managers was removed from the article. Everything seems to be in order. AniRaptor2001 18:08, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

It was one of the problems noted in the GA Review. Out of all the non-free images in the article (6 in total), the one with the managers was the most flimsy. It's not really necessary to have non-free images of the managers. However, if there were free images of the managers that could be used, those certainly would be welcomed. I'm planning on nominating the article for FA status in some very close time, so any final fixes to the article are quite welcome.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 19:17, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. That clears it up perfectly. I'll do my best to help get this article ship-shape ;) AniRaptor2001 19:53, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. The more contributors to the article, the better. I don't think there's much to fix as of right now, except maybe better summarizing some parts. The article itself is complete; in fact, if compared to the Scotland national football team article, I think that Peru has a great chance of being named FA class (The first for CONMEBOL).--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 01:52, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Excessive number of non-free images

User:Fasach Nua posted a maintenance tag of the article possibly containing too many non-free images. He did not make an argument as to why he posted that, but he did provide the rules as to why there might be too many non-free images. Since no argument was provided from his part, I will provide a defensive argument.

1. All of the images are properly referenced (in their respective image pages) and have an appropiate non-free use rational.

2. There are only 6 non-free images. It's not an excessive amount of non-free images, and each convey a particular topic of interest that is necessary for the article.

3. Here is the Peru national football team rational for each of the images:

-The image depicting the 1930s Golden Generation is necessary because it depicts Peru's first "great" team. It is the team that participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, won Peru's first Copa America, and participated in the first FIFA world cup. It is also essentially one of Peru's earlier teams, and thus is necessary in order to depict the history of the team. There is no possible way for a free image to appear of this team (probabilities are too minimal). The only way this image will become "free" is when 100 years have passed (as I recall that's one of the rules for free images) in the year 2030.

-The image depicting Juan Seminario scoring a goal against England is the only action picture of the article. Moreover, it is one of the better results of the Peruvian team and is historically important. There is also no possible way for a free image to replace this one as the game itself is rather "forgotten" by many Peruvian fans and English fans alike. The "forgotten" part of it is what makes it that much more important to have it in an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia.

-The image of the 1970s Golden Generation basically has the same criteria as that of the 1930s generation.

-The picture of Teofilo Cubillas, who is still alive, will not be available for free use until he dies. He is widely considered to be the best Peruvian player of all times, received several important international awards, and deserves to have his image in the team's article as he is essentially an icon of the Peru national football team.

-The FIFA Fair Play Trophy award is an important and memorable award that Peru received in the 1970s. It is one of the most important awards given to the national team as FIFA, the maximum authority of international football, awarded it to Peru. There is no free content that can replace this image.

-The memorable games picture, which does hold a reasonable rational for its appearance in the article, does not hold as much strength as the other images. I'll remove this one as it could be replaced with a free image.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

post-FAC comments

Later than promised, some post-FAC comments on possible improvements.

• The Peruvian team has an inconsistent history of success. - A team can either have an inconsistent history, or a history of success, but not both.
• Recently, Peru was the first CONMEBOL team to be knocked out of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers - avoid terms like "recently" which may become out of date.
• Even though the Peruvian Football Federation had joined CONMEBOL by 1925 - was this in 1925? If so, writing it as "'Even though the Peruvian Football Federation joined CONMEBOL in 1925" would avoid the passive voice.
• It is worth noting that Argentina and Brazil did not compete in the 1939 Copa America.
• Putting managerial win percentages to two decimal places is far too precise. Given that most of them managed a number of mathces in single figures, the decimal places are meaningless.

More to follow, give me a poke on my talk page if I forget. Oldelpaso (talk) 09:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and implemented the first three improvements. I'm struggling with the best way to mention that the two most powerful teams' non-participation is what enabled Peru to take home what would have otherwise easily gone to them. AniRaptor2001 (talk)

Thanks Oldelpaso. Aniraptor seems to have taken care of your first notes. I'll check the rest of the ones you have just noted.--//[*]MarshalN20[*]\\ (talk) 20:50, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

The article is looking good! What's left to do? AniRaptor2001 (talk) 23:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

It certainly is. I think all of us deserve a big congratulations for the amount of improvement this article has gotten. According to the peer review the article recently received, here's some of the problems:

1. Find a free image of Teofilo Cubillas. The image currently being used apparently is copyrighted and will be removed.
2. Find some book sources that talk about the football team. Try using google books (I'll check it myself in a bit).
3. Fix some wikilinks (too many repetitive ones). For instance, "it would be silly to wikilink silly almost every time you think of something silly." Only one of the wikilinks for the name is needed every now and then (not as repetitive).

AND, the final thing would be another copy-edit. The peer reviewer gave a good one, and I tried to fix a couple of things also. However, there are still things that could be improved. I'm sure this article will reach FA status soon.--$%MarshalN20%$ (talk) 00:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Managers (1960-1968)

Is there anybody who can find who where the managers of Peru during these years? As hard as I've tried to look for some data, nothing comes up.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 21:55, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I just remember Marcos Calderon for Qualifying World Cup 1966 / Solo recuerdo haber leido que fue Marcos Calderon, en las eliminatorias para Inglaterra '66. (1965). Acabo de editarlo en la lista de Managers, en la version en ibgles. Alguna vez lei una lista mas exacta, pero no recuerdo donde en internet. veo que sale Jaime de Almeyda como Dt en 1963, me imagino que fue para la Copa America de Bolivia (ese equipo era muy aliancista con Bazan,Pitin,Perico, recordar que el Sr De Almeyda entreno ese equipo). Faltaria ver quien fue el tecnico en las eliminatorias de 1961 y creo que ya no habrian mas Managers. Ojo, en 1967 el tecnico aun era Calderon, ya que lei sobre un partido amistoso de mediados del '67 Peru 0 - Uruguay 1, con Alberto Spencer jugando para Uruguay, por ello prefiero poner en la pagina wiki, Marcos Calderon (1965-67) compartiendo esta funcion con la de entrenador de la U, al estilo Guus Hiddink con PSV y Australia hace unos 3 años. Rrvio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrvio (talk • contribs) 04:46, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Gracias. Si, de Almeyda aparece en uno de los records de la RSSSF como entrenador de Peru durante el '63. Supongo que en el '68 no hubo entrenador (No me sorprende esas cosas para Peru). Claro, supongo que para las eliminatorias del '61 debe haber algun entrenador. Una lista completa seria fantastica. Muchas gracias!--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 14:01, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

En realidad, se que Didí asumio entre Abril a Junio de 1968. Es logico que en intervalo entre Calderon (1967) y Didi no hubiera ningun tecnico. De hecho, en 1967 el Peru no asistio a la Copa America, por ello no hubo motivo para tener un seleccionador. Eso si, tuvieron la vision de iniciar el proceso a MExico 70 casi 2 años antes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrvio (talk • contribs) 00:41, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Te invito a que mires List of managers of the Peru national football team. Añadi hace un rato la informacion que tu diste recientemente. Deja los años 1960-1962 y el 1964 como desconocidos. Es posible que de Almeyda haya entrenado al equipo tambien en el '64, pero no estoy seguro.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 02:07, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Muy interesante tu lista List of managers of the Peru national football team. Mas bien, sobre el DT de 1986, lei el sgte. articulo: http://dechalaca.com/content/view/238/89/ Pienso, por ello, que la "gestion" de Challe solo abarco el periodo entre el Partido Peru 4 vs Venezuela 1 (16/06/85) y el Peru 0 vs Chile 1 (03/11/85). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrvio (talk • contribs) 20:23, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Current Squad

I see new additions to the "current squad" section. Are we going to base the current squad listing on the last games played, or are we going to do a full list? I'd preffer a shorter last-squad used list; mainly because it lowers the amount of memory in the article. Any opinions?--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 18:40, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I think the best thing to do is remove the squad list from the article. It's unreliable and takes way too much space. We should have a separate article for these call-ups.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 06:02, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

It is my understanding that the current squad is always the last squad to play a official match, that would mean that the squad that played against Honduras should be the one being display, also a recent call up section could be added showing only players that played with the national team in the last 12 months. Regards --Bocafan76 (talk) 17:58, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, I'm not really in the mood to update the squad that played against Honduras. Peru is soon to play another team, I think Panama, and that will probably be the best time to update that section. The problem with the "recent call-up" section is that del Solar called several players to the team, and the list itself would take too much space. This article needs to be chopped up a bit by taking out information that could use its own article.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 19:13, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok, due to the fact that every other day a different Ip changes the squad in "Players" section, I'll be removing it, since any player from Peru could well be included in it, because it doesn't specify which players should or shouldn't appear in the squad. Once a set of players have been called up, add the current squad subsection. Regards --Bocafan76 (talk) 01:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Current Possible Squad?

It's rather absurd to be working with a "current possible squad" list that people are randomly making up. Here is an article from Peru.com that has a list of the squad of local players that Markarian is using in preparation for the game against Canada: http://www.peru.com/futbol/seleccion20100803/110815/Peru-trabajo-por-segunda-vez-con-Sergio-Markarian-a-la-cabeza Feel free to use the link to use that as a base for the "current squad" section.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 17:39, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Markarian's Peru XI call-up posted

Peru XI by Peru.com

If anybody would like to add these into the article, please go ahead and do it. We should start the "recent call-ups" section based on this first call-up by Markarian.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 00:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Squad

You should add Claudio Pizarro in the Recent callups --190.81.168.163 (talk) 15:36, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

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Copy edit October 2011

I've condensed and clarified the text as far as I can, and I have a few points to mention that perhaps more subject-oriented editors could think about. They're not major point, but if you're going for F.A status might be pertinent:

• Some terms are used interchangeably, particularly 'team' and 'squad', 'draw' and 'tie' and 'match' and 'game'.
• I removed most of the incidents of "la Blanquirroja" in favour of "Peru" or "Peru's squad"; I've left it in the header and first sub-section (Beginnings) for context; perhaps someone can expand upon this a little;
• There's probably some information cross-over between games and tournaments in the 'History' section and elsewhere; that would need some careful reading that's a little beyond my copy-editing remit;
• Should we refer to the team as a whole as "it" or "they"? I used "they" out of habit, but the article has mixed usage at the moment. The MOS says we should use plural pronouns "they" and "are" for British English and singular "it" and "is" for US English. I'll change this to US-style, as US spelling is used throughout; feel free to revert (but don't forget to change the others!) if I'm wrong. (later note - I only found two examples of "they", which I've changed as needed).
• In 'Managers', there seems to be some confusion between managers and coaches. For example, was Jack Greenwell a manager or a coach? Greenwell's article says he was a manager, but that article's section on Peru says he 'guided' the team. In this article, we have: "Peru's squad was coached by English Jack Greenwell..." Also, beneath the table is: "Freddy Ternero was the manager during the 1997 Copa America; Juan Carlos Oblitas was the head coach". If Oblitas was head coach, why is he in the table of managers?

I hope my edits have improved the article. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 19:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Your edits have certainly been an improvement. The matter regarding "manager" and "coach" is confusing because "managers" tend to be head coaches of the national team as well. Some "managers" take the approach of only coaching the senior national team, while others get more involved with the youth squads as well. The issue mainly has to do with the lack of commitment or experience many of these "managers" have had for the national team. The few that were professionally dedicated to their work, Greenwell, Calderon, Pereira, accomplished great things but left as quickly as they came (Greenwell and Pereira for better fields, Calderon into the afterlife). Markarian seems to be following a similar dedicated process and that may end up working out, but considering the trend of the past good managers he won't last long.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 20:34, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining, I can now see why that section seems a little confused between coaches and managers. I'll leave it in your hands to edit; you know much more about Pervuian football than me (not difficult!). It's been an interesting article to copy-edit; wishing you well with the FAC nomination. Cheers and happy editing, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:56, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

records

why not integrate the records into the article about the national team like in other cases?--Severino (talk) 16:51, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

This article uses the Scotland national football team as a model. Regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 22:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

ok--Severino (talk) 11:29, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Navboxes v Templates

I honestly do not understand why the templates are being deleted from the article. They help reduce the size of the article while presenting the same information as the navboxes. Please discuss.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 15:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

The template is not complex, uses just one time. It can be embedded in this article. Why does it exist? Sawol (talk) 18:36, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

My primary defense for its existence is the article size. The complexity of it is subject to opinion. These templates could (and should) be used in articles such as Football in Peru and Sport in Peru (where the notability of these squads is relevant); other likely usage includes future articles such as Football in South America and the yet-to-be-improved CONMEBOL article.

Best regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 19:57, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

How many sports are in a counrty? How many countries are in South America? How many templates suchlike are needed? Sawol (talk) 20:04, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

There are a finite number of sports in the planet, and a smaller number of team sports within that spectrum. In South America, the primary sports are football and volleyball (followed by basketball and tennis).

Focusing on just football, and considering 10 members are in CONMEBOL, not many of these templates are necessary. Only 7 CONMEBOL members have ever won the Copa America (and only 6 more than once), and only Brazil has qualified for all World Cup finals (while Bolivia has only participated in two and Venezuela has never qualified).

Thus, I calculate we would need 6 Copa America champion squads templates (including Peru's template) and 9 for the World Cup squads template (again including Peru's template). The total would be 15.

Regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 20:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Is it 15 templates per competitions, and countries? Really? The number of templates for Peru is 6 as {{Peru squad 1930 FIFA World Cup}}, {{Peru squad 1970 FIFA World Cup}}, {{Peru squad 1978 FIFA World Cup}}, {{Peru squad 1982 FIFA World Cup}}, {{Peru squad 1939 South American Championship}}, {{Peru squad 1975 Copa América}}. Please re-get. And now, why is required every player's name in the article [Football in South America]? Standings, competitions, and countries are sufficient. Sawol (talk) 06:17, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The 15 templates would be solely for international football competitions. The other sports are not of my concern.

The 6 templates you mention are sub-templates of 2 out of the 15 ones I calculated. Those 6 templates are a standard; there is no need to discuss them.

"Re-get" is not a word, and I don't understand the context either.

The name of every player is not required in a Football in South America article; only the notable ones would be in it.

What I'd like to see is policy that justifies your request to delete the templates. Please provide me with it.

Thanks.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 14:05, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Template:Peru Copa América Champion Squads can be embedded in this article like Template:Peru football squad 1936 Summer Olympics or Peru national football team#Olympic record. It is an aberration to generate bunches of templates composed of sub-templates. You said that Template:Peru Copa América Champion Squads might be used twice or thrice. But I don't think so. It is used only once in this article. If it is used in Football in South America, then a player Eusebio Acasuzo will be listed. It is notable that Peru nat'l team won Copa América at Football in South America, not that a player joined Peru nat'l team. Sawol (talk) 09:21, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Sawol, are we discussing two templates or more? The 1936 Summer Olympics template is used in two articles (including this one). The merit of players is also outside the discussion, although I have to completely disagree with the assertion that individual players are not notable. Please explain how having the current two templates with sub-templates is wrong or harmful? Calling it an "aberration" does not do much to help me understand why it is wrong. Regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 14:51, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

User:MarshalN20, visit below

• Argentina national football team#National Squads
• Brazil national football team#External links
• Spain national football team#Squads
• Germany national football team#Titles

No one make the third template like Template:Peru FIFA World Cup Squads. So Template:Peru FIFA World Cup Squads is redundant and will become wrong or harmful. You should not think that Peru national football team is in the possession of you. Explain that Template:Peru FIFA World Cup Squads is not redundant. Regards. Sawol (talk) 08:33, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

None of the articles you list have been improved to the level that Peru national football team has been improved. It will be months, if not years, before they become FA candidates. The only point of comparison is the Scotland national football team article, but (based on the FA review) that article is somewhat outdated with the current FOOTY MoS guidelines.

I am still expecting you to please show me WP policy that agrees with your position.

All I keep receiving from you are exaggerated personal opinions and (I assume inadvertent) insults.

I will raise an RfC to hear outside views on the subject. Regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 13:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

I opened a 3O case to get input from an additional user. I will mention in advance that I will abide with whatever consensus is reached. Cordially.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 14:21, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

TOC issue?

Is it only me or is the TOC (table of contents) stretched throughout the whole page width? Parutakupiu (talk) 23:01, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind. Cache problem, now resolved. Parutakupiu (talk) 23:09, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Peru Brazil 1997 Copa America match

Per the official FIFA website (see [1]), the 1997 Copa America match between Brazil and Peru took place in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 00:09, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Engvar

Why are we in American English here? This revision seems to be in UK English. When and why was it changed? --John (talk) 21:01, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

WP:RETAIN says it shouldn't have been changed. --John (talk) 23:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Very few people other than me ever reply in this page.

As I wrote in the FAC review page, WP:RETAIN also clearly states the following:

When no English variety has been established and discussion cannot resolve the issue, the variety used in the first non-stub revision is considered the default. If no English variety was used consistently, the tie is broken by the first post-stub contributor to introduce text written in a particular English variety. The variety established for use in a given article can be documented by placing the appropriate Varieties of English template on its talk page.

The 2004 version you link to is clearly little more than a stub, with no citations, and only two identifiable UK English terms ("Colours" and "neighbours").

Hence, your assertion that this article was changed to American English is without foundation.

However, if you would like to change the language, surely no one will oppose it.

Best regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 00:38, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

I have mentioned on the FAC page that perhaps using UK English would be a nice way to subtly give a nod to the British emigrants who founded Peruvian football. —Cliftonian (talk) 17:21, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

The article is now in UK English. I hope this resolves the issue. —Cliftonian (talk) 19:30, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

TFAR

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Peru national football team needs attention, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Mixed date formats?

I find both dmy and mdy date formats in the article. It should be fixed for an FA article.

HandsomeFella (talk) 15:19, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Fixed it. HandsomeFella (talk) 15:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)