Jump to content

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of 2006 Major League Baseball all-stars/archive1

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 by User:The Rambling Man 06:54, 2 July 2008 [1].

List of 2006 Major League Baseball all-stars[edit]

This seems o meet all FL criteria. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 21:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think there needs to be some sort of divide between the National and American league tables. You could turn it into two seperate tables, or add some sort of thick line/narrow blank column between columns 2 and 3. Drewcifer (talk) 21:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Also, what about including their positions? Players are added to the roster based on position, correct? Drewcifer (talk) 00:12, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • I do have most of the positions in the lead. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 00:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Well I actually haven't read the lead yet. Busted! =) But technically speaking the lead should summarize the rest of the article/list, but not introduce anything new. So that info should be in the table in some way, right? Drewcifer (talk) 00:44, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Okay. Done. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 02:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
          • How are the rows organized? For instance, why is Alfonso Soriano on the same row as B.J. Ryan? The fact that everything is in one table necessitates a bit more structure. Table-wise, I'm honestly more akin to the style of 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Which leads me to a related question: why do we need this list anyways? It's already done in the other article, and in my opinion better. Drewcifer (talk) 02:32, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Due to my comments above and (so far) a lack of resolution to them. To recap, I have three over-arching issues:

  • This list is made redundant by 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. This list contributes nothing the article does not, and is in fact inferior (IMHO) to the list contained in the larger article which is formatted more carefully and logically, aesthetically more pleasing and readable, and contains more information. The only thing this list does that the article does not is add a bunch of pictures on the side, which isn't particularly compelling to me.
  • The formatting and structure of the tables is arbitrary and seemingly haphazard. This is mainly due to the fact the both leagues occupy the same horizontal space in the same table.
  • Lastly (and this is a new one), the sorting does not work at all. I believe this is due to the common row at the bottom with the source, but I'm not too sure about that. Drewcifer (talk)
  • Comment The main article for this list still has a table. Why can't the one here be moved there? Then, that article would be a lot more useful. -- Scorpion0422 06:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, for now. I usually don't oppose right off the bat (no pun intended), but I see a lot of issues and incorrect grammar.
  • The contest was the fifth hosted by the city of Pittsburgh -- tying the Indians for the record of most times hosted by a single franchise. Oh noes! Not the double hyphen!
  • The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 3-2, thus awarding the AL champion (which was eventually the Detroit Tigers) home-field advantage in the 2006 World Series. Change "3-2" to "3–2".
  • Ivan Rodriguez made his eleventh all-star appearance, while Alex Rodriguez made his ninth. Why is Alex in italics?
  • In the American League, Catcher Ivan Rodriguez making his 13th all-star appearance, received 1,826,720 votes, the most for the catcher position. Something funky there.
  • New York Yankees players Alex Rodriguez Derek Jeter, both making multiple all-star appearances, received over two million votes to play third base or shortstop, respectively. "Alex Rodriguez Derek Jeter" is not one person. Also, that sentence is very pooly worded.
  • Albert Pujols, received 3,418,555, the most that year for any position.. Why the commans?
  • Chase Utley, making his first world series appearance, received 1,971,920 votes. I thought we were talking about the All-stars game, not the world series.
  • The key confuses me. It says the color green and a bullet point indicates that a player ppeared more than once in an all-star game, but some of the entries in the table are only colored green and don't have a bullet point. Do they signify different things?
  • I'd like to see more references. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • More comments Starting to look better. I struck my oppose, so just a few more comments.
  • The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 3$ndash;2, thus awarding the AL champion (which was eventually the Detroit Tigers) home-field advantage in the 2006 World Series. Funky non-breaking space.
  • Albert Pujols, received 3,418,555 votes, the most that year for any position[3], to play first base in the world series.[3] Because you're using the same ref, kill the one in the middle of the sentence.
  • Albert Pujols, received 3,418,555 votes, the most that year for any position... Still too many commas.
  • In the outfield, Vladimir Guerrero topped the list with 2,833,601 votes. Maybe becaues I'm going crazy, this says to me that he topped the entire All-star list.
  • Jason Bay was voted to play outfield 2,635,930 times, the most in that position that year. Gah! Jason Bay played outfield 2,635,930 times?! :P
  • Image layout looks fine on Firefox, but poor on Internet Explorer. I can't imagine there's a way to fix that, so it's no big deal.
  • As the entire chart isn't a key, it might be best to eliminate the "key" subheader or move it to the bottom.

Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 13:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/List_of_2006_Major_League_Baseball_all-stars/archive1&oldid=1126717344"