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The result was: promoted by
Desertarun (
talk) 07:58, 15 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Overall: The Copyvio Detector shows that there's
41.5% plagiarism. This is my third DYK review, so feel free to give it another look.
Salukk (
talk) 17:49, 13 June 2021 (UTC)reply
"Aldershot had finished in sixth place in the Fourth Division while Wolverhampton Wanderers finished fourth." - repetition of "finished"
"They were joined in the play-offs by fifth-placed Colchester United and Bolton Wanderers, who had finished in 21st place in the division above." - repetition of "place(d)"
"Aldershot defeated Bolton Wanderers in their semi-final, consigning the latter to relegation, while Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Colchester United in the other semi-final." - repetition of "defeated"
The term relegation can be wikilinked to the appropriate article in the first paragraph
Route to the final
"For the first two years of the play-offs, the club which had finished immediately above the relegation places in the Third Division competed with three clubs from the Fourth Division immediately below the promotion positions for a place in the second tier of English football for the following season." - repetition of each of "club(s)" and "place(s)"
"the game into extra time" - text is a little too close to The Times source
Second leg (summary)
"Ten officers and a police horse were injured in the riot while forty-two people," - try to avoid starting a sentence with a number figure
Post-match
"The Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Graham Turner" - avoid
MOS:SEAOFBLUE here
References
Does Reference 12 "Win gives the Wolves a firm grip" have a page number?
Shall place the review on hold to enable the nominator to address or query each of the points raised above
MWright96(talk) 12:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)reply