Talk:Cambridge United F.C.

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Former good article nomineeCambridge United F.C. was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 14, 2007Peer reviewReviewed
September 1, 2012Good article nomineeNot listed
Current status: Former good article nominee

Player information[edit]

I have made a new table showing the first team players using a template i found on another page. What do people think of it? is it better or worse than before? --BurtonH0123 (talk) 16:56, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please use the format as found in the Manual of Style for football clubs. It's a much nicer layout, anyway. Dancarney (talk) 20:30, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sorry about that :P... BurtonH0123 (talk) 14:57, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reg Smart[edit]

  • Recent editor added note about Reg Smart stepping down from role (unspecified) in early 2006. I cannot find any verification for this elsewhere on the web - could this statement be clarified? -- MightyWarrior 12:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The official website lists Baker as the current chairman and Smart as life president, so I believe this information to be correct. Although I can't find any verification for the fact that he resigned in early 2006, at http://www.cambridge-united.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/Feature/0,,10423%7E793946,00.html it does state that Baker was named president on 20/02/2006. --Oli 22:21, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but Reg Smart ceased to be chairman (stepped down from board of directors) in 2002; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cambridge_utd/1789540.stm. So what role did he step down from in 2006?? -- MightyWarrior 23:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is it realistic to expect that the list of current players can be kept sufficiently up-to-date? From the club's official web-site it looks as though a number of players listed in this article have now moved on. -- MightyWarrior 12:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think it is realistic to keep the current players up to date. I would happily take on the role of updating it if i hear of any transfers. --BurtonH0123 (talk) 16:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Table of Managers[edit]

Here is a table of managers to add. I'm holding back at the moment until I can verify some of the dates that look iffy.

Cambridge United managers, post-war
Manager From To Duration
Bill Whittaker August 1949 July 1955 6 Seasons
Gerald Williams 1955 1955  
Bert Johnson August 1955 July 1959 4 Seasons
Bill Craig August 1959 May 1960 1 Season
Alan Moore August 1960 May 1963 3 Seasons
Roy Kirk August 1964 May 1966 2 Seasons
Bill Leivers December 1967 October 1974 7 Seasons
Ron Atkinson November 1974 January 1978 3 Seasons
John Docherty January 1978 December 1983 4 Seasons
John Ryan January 1984 January 1985 1 Season
Ken Shellito March 1985 December 1985 1 Season
Chris Turner January 1986 January 1990 4 Seasons
John Beck January 1990 October 1992 3 Seasons
Gary Johnson October 1992 December 1992 Caretaker
Ian Atkins December 1992 July 1993 Half-season
Gary Johnson August 1993 April 1995 2 Seasons
Tommy Taylor April 1995 November 1996 1.5 Seasons
Roy McFarland November 1996 February 2001 4.5 Seasons
John Beck March 2001 November 2001 Half-season
John Taylor November 2001 March 2004 2.5 Seasons
Dale Brooks March 2004 March 2004 Caretaker
Claude Le Roy March 2004 July 2004 8 matches
Herve Renard July 2004 December 2004 Half-season
Ricky Duncan December 2004 December 2004 Caretaker
Steve Thompson December 2004 May 2005 Half-season
Rob Newman May 2005 Present

TomDestry 12:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • I've used this information and created the page List of Cambridge United F.C. managers with a link from this page. I think the information is now correct using a combination of Soccerbase and the official website. Oli 22:34, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Headings[edit]

Seems to be too many sub-headings in the history section (more of User:AlexWilkes edits). Can I suggest that the sections are combined, rather than having one sentence per heading? WikiGull 13:50, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I did do this some time ago when there were many more headings, but I would agree there are still too many, especially the first few which could probably come under one 'older' history section. Why not have a go WikiGull? Oli 15:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Kit[edit]

Cambridge United have today released a new Home kit and as I am not very experianced with Editing football related articals I am going to suggest someone else to do it. The new kit looks like this,

http://www.cambridge-united.premiumtv.co.uk/javaImages/75/6e/0,,10423~3305077,00.jpg

Jazza5 19:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


The away colours need changing. The away kit is light blue, the 3rd kit is white.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/200811251954/08/09-kits/cambridge-united-new-08/09-away-kit.html 87.82.25.114 (talk) 16:14, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Women's Team[edit]

I've added a short sentence about this under players in line with a lot of other club pages, but I can't find much information about it. I think it would be beneficial to have something about this if any information can be found. Oli 22:32, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

I think the History section is too long and needs condensing, with a longer history (including more pre-league era information) being created on a separate linked-to page. I will start to do this unless anyone has any objections? Oli 22:36, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fandom[edit]

An unnamed editor today (21/08/2007) added a section entitled 'Fandom' to the article. I've since removed this as there's already a section on 'Supporters', and most of the information read like an advertisement (price and sale information) and was thus unsuitable for Wikipedia (see WP:SOAP). I've put a more objective sentence on 'United in Endeavour' in the supporters section which I think is more appropriate. Oli 22:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Current Season Page[edit]

I have created a new page showing this season for Cambridge United. I am slightly unsure that i have included everything, in particular transfers, as for me the Cambridge utd website has not been working for me. Could somebody please take a look at it and help take it forward. By the way, i am happy to keep the results table up to date throughout the season so this is not an issue. BurtonH0123 (talk) 19:55, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 10:47, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to review the article momentarily, I'll give it a read through now. Miyagawa (talk) 10:47, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References
  • Date formats need to all be the same, at the moment you appear to have three different ways of showing the dates - 2006-12-16, July 13, 2012 and 20 July 2007. Doesn't really matter which one you pick as it's editors preference, but there needs to only be one format across the entire article.
  • Citations 56, 58, 59, 60 and 61 are bare urls.
  • You've listed the BBC Sport website as both "BBC Sport" and "BBC Sport Online". Probably needs to just be reduced down to "BBC Sport".

 Done Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 07:46, 7 August 2012 (UTC) Having to head out unexpectedly, so will finish this review when I'm back in later on. Miyagawa (talk) 10:50, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, back now, here's the rest of the review:

References (part 2)
  • In some places the official website is listed as cambridgeunited.com, and some as www.cambridgeunited.com - just needs to choose which one to go with, or perhaps Cambridge United Official Website or something.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 12:17, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Cite #3 needs to have more formatting (access date, website etc)

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 12:17, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Does #13 have a url?

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 12:17, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • #27 needs a website

{{done} Del♉sion23 (talk) 12:17, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lead
  • Should expand football to association football in the first line.

 Not done article is written in British English where "football" means association football if there is no further disambiguation. See the version of the article Arsenal F.C. that was made a FA [1]. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 19:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Even in British English there is more than one form of football. See Association football and Rugby football. The Arsenal F.C. article makes it clear that it is an English Premier League football club in the lead, and so it can only be one type of football. Give that, I think either a change to association football or to state the league that Cambridge United current sits in prior to saying football in the same manner as the Arsenal article would be appropriate. Miyagawa (talk) 10:13, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Text of the Arsenal article reads "Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are a football club based in north London. They play in the FA Premier League " text of the Cambridge United article is "Cambridge United Football Club is a professional football club from Cambridge, England. They compete in the Conference National...". In both cases is states that it's a football club, then tells you what division they play in - the structure is identical. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 17:45, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • Sorry, my eyes must have skipped over that - in that case it's fine to stay as it is. Miyagawa (talk) 17:28, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 19:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • "missing out on being founding members of the Premier League" perhaps "missing out on being promoted to the first tier and becoming founding members of the Premier League"?

 Done Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 19:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • The bit about FA reserve team rules isn't mentioned in the main body of the article, so it needs to be copied into it. Then you can remove the citation from the lead as it'll be cited in the body.

 Done Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 19:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

History
  • Last couple of lines of the first paragraph are uncited.
  • Second and third paragraphs are missing citations too.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Colours and badge
  • Last two paragraphs are uncited.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stadium
  • The last line of the last paragraph is uncited.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Supporters
  • The end of the first paragraph is uncited.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 12:27, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Players
  • Source needs to be as a citation rather than a piped external link, and if it's the source for all of those tables, it needs to be outside of the technical staff table.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reserves
  • End of the last two paragraphs are uncited.

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notable managers
  • The MOS way of doing the years is to present them as 1974-76 rather than 1974-1976 unless of course it changes century, so 1999-2003 would be the way of doing it instead of 1999-03. So the dates need to be updated.
  • And the information in the table needs citations too.

 Done Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 22:18, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Honours
  • Needs a source

 Done Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Going to place this one on hold to see if this work can be done in a reasonable period of time. Once the citation/referencing is sorted, I'll do a proper review of the prose. Miyagawa (talk) 15:42, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It has been two weeks since the most recent edit to this page, and the most recent edits to the article by the nominator were on August 13, when three refs were supplied for the Honours section. What is the current status of the review? Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:34, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to close this one down, it can be renominated when the nominator has finished the comments above. Miyagawa (talk) 09:10, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Before you close it, I'm willing to give it a go and help. Del♉sion23 (talk) 11:57, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Cambridge United L.F.C. listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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2019-20[edit]

Get the page updated to reflect the 2019-20 season. It finished ages ago!! BRACK66 (talk) 03:27, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Division[edit]

We finished 14th in EFL League One.The page says EGL League Two. Please amend. BRACK66 (talk) 06:47, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Division[edit]

We finished 14th in EFL League One. The page says EFL League Two. Please amend. BRACK66 (talk) 14:16, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou BRACK66 (talk) 12:01, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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