Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of San Diego Padres Opening Day starting pitchers
- 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 promoted by User:Matthewedwards 22:08, 8 November 2008 [1].
I am nominating this list because I believe that this completes all of the FL criteria. This is also my second nomination for this FLC Contest. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 01:58, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The Padres first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma, who received a win against the Houston Astros. how about "earned" versus "received."
- The word, "earned", sounds a little bit too POV. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Randy Jones and Eric Show ties the Padres' record for most Opening Day starts with four, and both of them combined have an Opening Day record of 3 wins, 3 losses, and 2 no decisions - ties should be singular. Also how about ..and both have a combined Opening Day record..etc
- Jones also hold the most Opening Day starts consecutively with 3, holding it with Andy Benes and Jake Peavy. - "hold" should be pluaral. Well if he holds the record with other players, then the sentence is incorrect because he himself doesn't hold the most starts, needs rewording.
- done Check it if I did something wrong. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Andy Benes has the most Opening Day losses consecutively with 3 from 1993 to 1995. Jake Peavy was the Opening Day starting pitcher for the Padres since 2006. - 1)Benes and Peavy do not need to be linked again per WP:OVERLINK. 2)You have already mentioned them, you have to just mention them by their last name.
- Overall, the Padres's Opening Day starting pitchers have a record of 8 wins and 5 losses at San Diego Stadium/Jack Murphy Stadium/Qualcomm Stadium, and 2 wins and 0 losses at Petco Park. "Padres's" should be "Padres'"
- In addition, although the Padres were nominally the home team on Opening Day 1999, the game was played in Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. - "In addition" is a bad transclusion. How about "On Opening Day in 1999, the game was played in Estadio de Beisbol Moterrey in Monterrey, Mexico." You should say why, to make it seem notable.
- I don't really think it's a bad transclusion, since if I put it your way, then they wouldn't know if they were home or away. Also, I don't know why they had it in Mexico. I'll try searching it up. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Why is the score in 1985 "03"?
- Weak Support - Meets WP:WIAFL, but another thing that stands out is the heavy reliance on the Baseball-reference website, there needs to be more diversity of sources.--SRX 23:33, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - all FL criteria appears to be met. Good job. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 15:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support—Meets all criteria and matches the format of other Featured Opening Day lists. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Consistent with the other Opening Day starting pitcher lists that are Featured Lists. In the interest of full disclosre, I have made an edit to this page prior to the FLC. - Rlendog (talk) 19:38, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from RyanCross:
- Delink the second link to Major League Baseball in the lead – Avoid WP:OVERLINKing.
- Baseball-Reference is linked in the references, why isn't MLB.com?
- done
- "In addition, although the Padres were nominally the home team" – "nominally" to "normally"? Not sure if this was a type or not, so I'll let you decide.
- I just copied the sentence structure from the List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 20:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Make the 90% font-size in the wikitable to 100% – Avoid small fonts
- done
Support – Meets featured list criteria and all my comments have been resolved. Nice work, – RyanCross (talk) 21:15, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments
- San Diego Stadium/Jack Murphy Stadium/Qualcomm Stadium - is this really necessary? Just use the current name.
- I rewrote the sentence. Check if I did anything wrong. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Why are you using boldface inside the table? If it's not necessary, don't use it.
- Look at the key first. The bold faces letterings are to indicate the home stadium. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]- I can look at the key all day and still I will not understand why it's necessary to use boldface in this table. Boldface should only be used where WP:BOLDFACE tells you. I don't see anywhere the "use bold to indicate something" guideline.--Crzycheetah 07:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- So how do I fixed this? Italics? Not even indicate it at all? -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 07:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- So how do I fixed this? Italics? Not even indicate it at all? -- SRE.K.A
- I can look at the key all day and still I will not understand why it's necessary to use boldface in this table. Boldface should only be used where WP:BOLDFACE tells you. I don't see anywhere the "use bold to indicate something" guideline.--Crzycheetah 07:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Why are there <br>'s in the table headers?
- fixed I was to make the table smaller, but I changed to now. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Should Final Score → Final score ?
- in brackets are the number of innings over than 9 - reword please
- done If it is still horribly worded, I suggest you word it for me, as I only have an intermediate understanding of English. -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
--Crzycheetah 04:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments from Killervogel5
- "The Padres have used 23 different Opening Day starting pitchers in its 40 seasons." - subject and object do not agree. It needs to be "Padres franchise" or "their 40 seasons." One or the other.
- "The Padres first Opening Day starting pitcher" - Padres'
- "The Padres went on to play in the MLB post-season 5 times" - post-season should be linked to Playoffs#Playoffs in Major League Baseball.
- Key: "No Decision" - No decision. No caps in the second word.
- DONE -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]- If you are going to link no decision in the key (really not necessary because it's linked above), it should not be linked twice in quick succession. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on!
- Neither the Pat Dobson image nor the Eric Show image have fair use rationales for use in this article, and I doubt that you can provide one because there are other appropriate images already being used to illustrate. Remove.
- DONE -- SRE.K.A
nnoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply] - Hope this helps. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:13, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All numbers 10 and below need to be written out (i.e., one, three, nine, etc.). There are a lot of these in the lead.
Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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