Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Boston Red Sox seasons/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted 18:08, 24 April 2008.

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List of Boston Red Sox seasons

previous FLC (07:29, 25 February 2008)

Self nomination. I cleaned up the sections and made this more like a FL since the last nom. The lead has also been expanded, and I think this article is ready. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 12:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)

Much, much better, and much more what FLs are about. Some specific comments.

• First para of lead could use citation, as could the claims over their nickname origins, as could the third paragraph entirely. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• Use WP:MOS#Images for guidance on image sizing. For images other than lead images, just use thumb for landscape and thumb|upright for portraits. Consider moving on of the images into the lead. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• There's a stray full stop between the key and the table.
• Get rid of the 2008 row. The lead says it's a list of completed seasons. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• If columns are sortable, they should be useful, sorting on Results when you have things like "Tied for..." isn't useful. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• Games Behind should be Games behind and, also, doesn't sort correctly, probably because of the 1/2 character you use. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• Why is Canceled in capitals? STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• And what is the relevance of italics? It's not clear. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• Image captions, if fragments, shouldn't have full stops.
• You're using an image which appears to be at WP:CSD. It needs to go.
• Note 9 should use an en-dash.

I don't see the need for one. Could you please be more specific? STORMTRACKER 94

^{Go Irish!} 22:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Now it's note 13, where you have a page range, it needs to use the en-dash not the hyphen to separate. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC) - Milk's favorite Cookie 18:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

• Where do you actually get these stats from? Do you have a general reference? It's not clear. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 21:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

So, oppose for now, but these can all be fixed. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• Remove spaces before citations per WP:CITE. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 20:09, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
• At least have the wins and losses sortable. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 20:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
• Consider the use of the {{sort}} template for the Games behind column.
• Avoid the use of the small text at the top of the table in the key, not needed.
• MLB should be in parentheses after its first use so people understand the acronym. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 20:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
• Where is AL expanded?

American League. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, though. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 20:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Some more to deal with. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose I am confused, very, very confused. Please take a look at Boston Red Sox seasons and explain to me how come we have two lists on the same subject. Also by looking at Category:Major League Baseball teams seasons, I notice that most of the MLB season lists are named just "Team seasons". I am opposing until this confusion is resolved. As a side note, I'd like to add that the table at Boston Red Sox seasons provides a lot more useful information than the table in the nominated list.--Crzycheetah 21:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per Crzycheetah. Peanut4 (talk) 03:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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