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List of international goals scored by Harry Kane[edit]

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Nominator(s): KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 22:26, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list status because Harry Kane has always been one of my favourite players to watch and I would feel very honoured to get this list there. I have tons of experience working on other international goals lists, and I have been waiting for him to become England's all-time record goalscorer so this list could be created and expanded upon. Please let me know what I should change in this list article. Thank you. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 22:26, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Could make the lead image larger (or use a landscape one if one exists). At present it looks a bit lost in amongst all the text
"Kane surpassed England's second all-time top goalscorer" - I would say "Kane surpassed England's second-top goalscorer of all time" or ""Kane surpassed England's second-highest goalscorer of all time"" works better. Present wording makes it sound like Charlton was the second player to be all-time top scorer
"having equalled it" - as Charlton (rather than his record) was the object of the previous clause, this means you are referring to Charlton as "it". Suggest changing to "having equalled his tally"
"Kane made his debut for England in a 4–0 home win over Lithuania, replacing Wayne Rooney in the second half, and scoring just 80 seconds later" - Seems a bit jarring to find this at the end of the paragraph after all the talk about the records he equalled/beat. I would suggest putting it before all that (so essentially after "since 2018")
Also, lose the comma after "second half"
"to seal the team's trip to Russia and became England captain" - I misread this as "to seal the team's trip to Russia and become England captain", as if scoring the goals made him captain. I would suggest moving the bit about his becoming captain into the next sentence, which would become "Kane became captain of England for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where he led them......"
"to fire the team top of their group" - a bit tabloid journalese-y. Suggest "to help the team win their group"
Use of words vs digits for numbers under 10 is a bit inconsistent. You have "he scored 3 goals in 4 appearances to help England qualify for the tournament" but then later you have "During UEFA Euro 2020, Kane scored four goals"
"England topped their qualifying group yet again" => "England topped their qualifying group again"
"win over Panama at 2018 FIFA World Cup" => "win over Panama at the 2018 FIFA World Cup"
"which was also coincidentally England's 1000th ever fixture" - don't really see how this was a coincidence, so I would lose that word
That's what I got :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@ChrisTheDude: Changed the prose around your suggestions, but I moved the Kane debut goal sentence to after the opening sentence because I think it fits there more than after the second sentence. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 17:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:32, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- Idiosincrático (talk) 14:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Soccerway is a statistics website for the gambling sector, it should be used sparingly as a source. It would be better to switch over those citations that actually discuss the goals like BBC. Like on List of international goals scored by Wayne Rooney.
Use nowrap on #dates. Govvy (talk) 08:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Govvy: Removed Soccerway citations and added ((dts)) to the dates in the tables. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 17:34, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support Had another read through, looks all good now. Cheers. Govvy (talk) 18:32, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FOARP[edit]

Notability I think is passed, on the BBC and DT articles about Kane's goals exceeding Rooney's/Charlton's. Govvy handled the other sourcing issues.
Picture licencing checks out in as much as I am able to confirm it. Surprisingly generous of Soccer.ru to CC licence their photos to be frank.
Support — Preceding unsigned comment added by FOARP (talk • contribs) 07:33, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed; promoting. --Pres N 17:33, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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