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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 16:59, 1 July 2008 [1].

List of 2007 Major League Baseball all-stars[edit]

Seems to meet all criteria. Well illustrated, referenced, and informative lead. Comments are (of course) welcome. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 23:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
  • Use en-dash for score separator i.e. not 5-4 but 5–4.
    • Done.
  • Is it All-Star or all-star?
  • "Russell Martin received over 600,000 votes, the most that year, to play as catcher in the 2007 all-star game" vs " Carlos Beltran led the outfield postion ballots with 1,017,795 votes.[5]" - doesn't make sense to me - "the most that year" except for the following sentence?
  • WP:MOS#Color says not to use just colour to indicate a property, so include an asterisk, dagger etc... for those guys as well as modifying the colour of the cells.
  • "Carlos Beltrán a 4-time all-star (2004-07) appeared in the 2007 All-star game" - caption could use work - a comma after his name, that weird 2004-07 needs to be tuned into English, is it All-star, all-star or All-Star, and if it's a complete sentence, add a period.
  • "Albert Pujols, first basemen for the St. Louis Cardinals appeared in an all-star game for the 6th time." - when?
  • Is there a reason why NL had one more all-star than AL? If so state it. Looks odd at the moment.
  • mlb.com or MLB.com - be consistent.
    • No actually there isn't. I was looking through other years and NL seems to often have more all stars. I looked around on the web, couldn't find anything. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 20:46, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Rambling Man (talk) 19:55, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment I don't know if it's just me, but the color in the Key table is messed up. There's a bullet in there... Gary King (talk) 04:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment please see my comments at the 2006 FLC, all of which apply here as well. Drewcifer (talk) 06:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose (almost verbatim from my oppose at the similar 2007 FLC) 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 2007 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) 00:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The American League defeated the National League by a score of 5–4. – That's an MoS breach, unless there's some exception that I don't know about. I'll have more commemts later; just wanted to give it a quick glance. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Look at the second point under En-dashes at WP:DASH. – is correct. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 06:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove the overlinking of Teams from Team columns. --Gman124 talk 00:00, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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