Talk:1973–74 in English football

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--JeffGBot (talk) 20:46, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

What's with the ellipsis? "..." appears 127 times in the article, mostly when it looks like it should just be a new sentence.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  18:29, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

:{{ping|Knowledeayton}} I just looked at 1972–73 in English football and 1974–75 in English football and they've had the ellipsis added recently too by you. I don't know squat about football, but I've never seen this style of writing before. Any objection if I start taking them out? Thanks,  SchreiberBike | ⌨  01:52, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

{{ping|SchreiberBike}} Ah, the ellipses...reproduced as per the source material, basically. It was a "Rothmans thing" for many, many years. The author(s) tended to use them to separate different news items, in the same way you or I might use a paragraph break, for example. FWIW I have judiciously left some of them out already (e.g. if a news item has a specific link to the one preceding it), but in most cases I find the diary entries read better with them in place and would be rather cluttered and cumbersome otherwise.

So, I personally wouldn't go so far as to get rid of them, wholesale - but I'm proofreading these pages on virtually a daily basis, so in all probability you'll see more of them disappear before too long anyway...

 Knowledeayton | ⌨  17:03, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

{{replyto|Knowledeayton|SchreiberBike}} I think using ellipses in this way isn't recommended in the Style Manual.

More generally, do the recent additions to the 'Diary of the season' section follow the original Rothmans source verbatim? The writing style, including some idioms that are characteristic of this section of Rothmans, certainly suggests this is the case. This needs to be avoided. See for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing

Tffff (talk) 08:38, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

{{replyto|Tffff|}} Fair point. Updates removed and entries restored. Knowledeayton (talk) 11:45, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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