The article was kept by User:Marskell 12:11, 13 October 2008 [1].
I think that this article shouldn't be neither a featured one nor a good one because: the history section suffers of recentism, the lead section is too short, the crest section has a non-free image gallery, and so on. Hadrianos1990 ( talk) 07:55, 27 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Glancing quickly at this article, I see some minor issues, not bad for an article promoted almost two years ago, but I wonder if we aren't seeing some pointy-ness going on in the Football nominations. Was there any attempt to resolve these concerns on the article talk page? Folks, there are some really old and out-of-compliance FAs out there, and clogging up FAR with articles that could be addressed via talk doesn't bode well. If this becomes a trend, we may need to alter FAR instructions to require prior attempts to work things out on talk before bringing articles that could easily be fixed to FAR. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Agree with Sandy about this being in pretty good shape, but not that happy with the non-free gallery. Not sure five old logos are needed, not to mention a second use of the current one. The recentism issue is difficult because Chelsea have acheived most of their success since 1997. Naturally, the history section will be slanted toward this period. A little more on the club from before 1950 wouldn't hurt, though. As for the lead, some more on their history could be included. I said that for Real Madrid and it's only fair for me to repeat that here. But overall there have been many worse articles through here and I think with a little work this can be kept. Giants2008 ( 17-14) 00:50, 29 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Per the comments above, I've expanded the lead and tried to reduce the recentism in the history section. As for the images, my suggestion is to remove the two variants of the current crest and the 52-53 initials one, which would leave just the main three. It's possible that the 1905 and 1955 crests are out of copyright anyway. SteveO ( talk) 00:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC) reply
The notifications still have not been done. Per the instrutions at the top of WP:FAR, pls notify with {{subst:FARMessage|Chelsea F.C.}} and post them back to here as in the sample at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Felix the Cat. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC) reply
This didn't get comment after the first few days. Normally, it would go to FARC now but I am with the group that views this as premature and probably unnecessary. I don't see a huge issue wrt to recentism and the crests are gone. Keeping. Marskell ( talk) 09:16, 13 October 2008 (UTC) reply
The article was kept by User:Marskell 12:11, 13 October 2008 [1].
I think that this article shouldn't be neither a featured one nor a good one because: the history section suffers of recentism, the lead section is too short, the crest section has a non-free image gallery, and so on. Hadrianos1990 ( talk) 07:55, 27 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Glancing quickly at this article, I see some minor issues, not bad for an article promoted almost two years ago, but I wonder if we aren't seeing some pointy-ness going on in the Football nominations. Was there any attempt to resolve these concerns on the article talk page? Folks, there are some really old and out-of-compliance FAs out there, and clogging up FAR with articles that could be addressed via talk doesn't bode well. If this becomes a trend, we may need to alter FAR instructions to require prior attempts to work things out on talk before bringing articles that could easily be fixed to FAR. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Agree with Sandy about this being in pretty good shape, but not that happy with the non-free gallery. Not sure five old logos are needed, not to mention a second use of the current one. The recentism issue is difficult because Chelsea have acheived most of their success since 1997. Naturally, the history section will be slanted toward this period. A little more on the club from before 1950 wouldn't hurt, though. As for the lead, some more on their history could be included. I said that for Real Madrid and it's only fair for me to repeat that here. But overall there have been many worse articles through here and I think with a little work this can be kept. Giants2008 ( 17-14) 00:50, 29 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Per the comments above, I've expanded the lead and tried to reduce the recentism in the history section. As for the images, my suggestion is to remove the two variants of the current crest and the 52-53 initials one, which would leave just the main three. It's possible that the 1905 and 1955 crests are out of copyright anyway. SteveO ( talk) 00:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC) reply
The notifications still have not been done. Per the instrutions at the top of WP:FAR, pls notify with {{subst:FARMessage|Chelsea F.C.}} and post them back to here as in the sample at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Felix the Cat. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC) reply
This didn't get comment after the first few days. Normally, it would go to FARC now but I am with the group that views this as premature and probably unnecessary. I don't see a huge issue wrt to recentism and the crests are gone. Keeping. Marskell ( talk) 09:16, 13 October 2008 (UTC) reply