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The article was promoted by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 17 September 2024 [1].

2001–02 Gillingham F.C. season

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Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi everyone, after some time away (partly down to being unable to access newspapers.com through TWL) I am back with yet another article on a Gillingham F.C. season. I attended most of the matches mentioned herein, and my two abiding memories of this season are being enthusiastically hugged by a total stranger when Gillingham equalised for the second time against Arsenal and the moment when a Crewe player took a penalty kick so bad that the ball hit a house outside the stadium. Feedback as ever will be most gratefully received and swiftly acted upon! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image review - pass

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The article contains the following images:

All images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution. They are all relevant to the article and placed at appropriate locations. All images have alt-text but I'm not 100 % happy with some of the alt-texts. For example, the alt-text of "Jlloyd_Samuel.jpg" says "Football Jlloyd Samuel". This should presumably be "Footballer". This is also a problem for some of the other photos of the players. I would include a description of the medium, i.e. "Photo of...". The alt-text of "AndyHess2009.jpg" says "Footballer...". In this context, would it be better to describe him as a manager? The captions are fine. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:12, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Phlsph7: - I tweaked most of the alts, let me know what you think -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:50, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that resolves the concerns. Phlsph7 (talk) 15:19, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Eem dik doun in toene

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  • "of the campaign for a transfer fee" ==> maybe add a comma between "campaign" and "for"
  • "in the UK" ==> in the United Kingdom
  • "After a 2–1 defeat at home to Coventry City" ==> home can be linked earlier (e.g., at "The highest attendance recorded at the club's home ground" (lede) and "in a 5–0 victory for the home team")
  • "distance of nearly 40 yards" ==> also convert this to metres
  • "Jason Brown (pictured in 2005)" ==> this picture is from 2015
  • "A week later, they lost 3–1" ==> A week later, Gillingham lost 3–1
  • The image captions of "Gillingham were eliminated from the FA Cup at Arsenal Stadium." and "Gillingham won at the Kassam Stadium, home of Oxford United, with a goal in the final minute of extra time." could both do with a "(pictured in ....)"
  • "and the championship of the Premier League" ==> I would shorten it to just "and the Premier League"
  • "and avoiding relegation only" ==> "and avoided relegation only"
  • Another great read! Had to chuckle when reading that part about the Crewe penalty miss. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 18:36, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support from NØ

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  • You can remove these commas
  • "It was the 70th season in which Gillingham competed in the Football League, and the 52nd since the club was voted back into the league in 1950."
  • "Gillingham began December with a 2–2 draw away to Nottingham Forest with two goals from Shaw, and extended their unbeaten run to eight games by beating Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 at Priestfield on 15 December"
  • "BBC Sport acknowledged that Gillingham had exceeded expectations in their first campaign in the First Division, but predicted that the team had"
  • "Brown had joined the club a year earlier, but had never previously been able to displace Bartram from the team"
  • ""On 19 March, Onoura scored an early goal against Norwich City and Brown saved a penalty kick to ensure that Gillingham were in the lead at half-time" - Add a comma after "Norwich City"--NØ 02:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MaranoFan: - all done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - pass

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  • There is even sentence-case formatting in the references.
  • Is there a replacement for the Evening Standard? (WP:STANDARDUK)
  • Spotchecks:
  • ref 2 - verifies the claim
  • ref 25 - verifies that Gillingham is third in the table and the only team with a GA of 0
  • ref 26 - verifies that West Brom won 1-0 over Gillingham
  • ref 32 - verifies Grimsby Town losing
  • ref 76 - verifies there were promotion hopes for Millwall which ended due to the 1–0 Gillingham victory

Support from Alavense

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  • This edit by the bot made you lose some of the edits you'd made earlier. You might want to check them.
  • Following a 2–0 victory over Portsmouth on 26 December - Can it be stated that this was the home game with the highest attendance of the season?
  • Following a 2–0 victory over Portsmouth on 26 December, Gillingham's final game of 2001 was three days later at home to West Bromwich Albion - The sentence as a whole reads a bit weirdly, because one would think that only the second match was played at home.
  • I'd include the {{Abbr}} template for both "No." and "Apps" in the table.

That's what I saw. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 07:52, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alavense: - all done. Thanks in particular for picking up that first one, no idea quite what happened there..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. I guess you ran the bot, it took its time and in the meantime you made those edits, which were then lost when the bot completed its task. I enjoyed the read and the details I pointed out have been addressed, so I'm happy to support. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Comments to follow. - SchroCat (talk) 07:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC) I made a few very minor tweaks here to give the proper name of the paper, but otherwise I am a Support for this. I was actually at one of the matches mentioned, which didn't turn out so well for Gillingham! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SchroCat: - hmmmm.....intriguing...... ;-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:11, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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