Talk:1939–40 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Kosack (talk · contribs) 19:35, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

I'll take this one on, review will be up as soon as possible. Kosack (talk) 19:35, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Initial review

Lead

• "The Challenge Cup competition was not played.", perhaps worth adding more context for this. The Challenge Cup article states that this is is the only season outside World War I that the competition was not held. Perhaps something along the lines of, "The Challenge Cup competition, traditionally run alongside the league, was not played for the first time since 1919"?
  •  Done

Planned season

• Pipe St Helens Recs to St Helens Recreation RLFC to avoid the redirect.
  •  Done

Suspension of the League

• Pipe friendlies to Exhibition game to avoid the redirect.
  •  Done

Yorkshire competition

• "The winter of 1939–40", the season wouldn't incorporate the winter of 1940 so would "the winter of 1939" be more appropriate?
  •  Reworded: Been a bit more specific about start date although the source added is entitled The Severe Winter of 1939–40
• Is there a source for the final table?
  • Not a contemporary one which is what I have been looking for. I have a modern one from this page which is a normally reliable amateur source. The latest contemporary table I have located in a really reliable source is 14 May 1940 in The Guardian [1] by which date some teams had one game left to play so the table can also be reconstructed from that with the remaining results added in. Per WP:CALC I don't think the table is OR as the various sources can be attributed i.e. the last printed version plus the references to the remaining results and the numbers of outstanding games are such that it's routine calculation. The omission from contemporary newspapers such as the Yorkshire Post, Hull Daily Mail etc I think is entirely understandable, we are talking about the weeks immediately following the invasion of France so newspapers were far more concentrating on war news and as the text says the season sort of fizzled out. The Play-off Final was played and nobody really seemed to care about 2 or 3 unplayed games which is understandable in context of the threat of invasion.

Championship play-off

• Link two leg play-off to Two-legged tie.
  •  Done

Representative matches

• The England and Wales national sides are unlinked in the first paragraph but then linked in the second. I would move the links to the first mention, per MOS:DUPLINK.
  •  Done

References

• All references are behind a paywall that I can't access but they are all impeccably formatted, so no real concerns there.

Overall, very little I can find to be concerned about. The subject matter is dealt with in impressive detail and is very well presented. Placed on hold for minor issues listed above. Kosack (talk) 08:22, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

All addressed, thanks for taking on the review. Nthep (talk) 15:38, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

No worries, a nice article to review. Well written, suitably sourced and an informative read. This comfortably meets the relevant GA criteria and all of the issues raised above have been addressed. Promoting. Kosack (talk) 18:45, 26 September 2018 (UTC)