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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 promoted by User:The Rambling Man 07:10, 4 July 2008 [1].

List of Boston Celtics head coaches[edit]

I think this list does meet featured list criteria. If you guys have any questions or comments, I would try to answer them.Gman124 talk 17:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - I originally created this, and then improved it a little after Gman nominated it. I think it meets the criteria. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 17:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as nominator. --Gman124 talk 18:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments
    • No need to overlink NBA Finals in the lead.
      • Done by Milk's Favorite Cookie
    • "while the 1959-to-1966 domination of the NBA Championship" - not keep on the wikilinking here - perhaps "the domination of NBA championship from 1959 to 1966..."?
    • 1959–1966 - I think 1959–66 is better.
    • "The current coach ..." - "As of June 2008, the coach of the ...." - provides a milestone.
    • Games Coached - Games coached.
      • Done by Milk's Favorite Cookie
    • Year ranges in the Achievements col need to take en-dash.
    • No need for italics in present.
    • Keep the terms per my third comment also - like the achievement year ranges - YYYY–YY.
    • Put a bullet point before the general ref.
    • "basketball-reference.com" vs "Basketball-Reference.com"
      • Done by Milk's Favorite Cookie

The Rambling Man (talk) 17:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments (more)
    • "while the domination of NBA championship from 1959–66, with eight straight titles" and "The franchise won eight consecutive NBA championships from 1959–1966" - a little repetitive.
    • Can you make the GC, W, L, W-L%, etc columns the same width? Would be aesthetically improved.
    • Auerbach's image caption should be Celtics, not celtics.
    • Heinsohn's image caption should take en-dash, not hyphen.
    • Fitch caption should link to Fitch, use an en-dash and have a period.

The Rambling Man (talk) 17:54, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments (more)
    • Although I haven't seen it on other head coach lists, is there a reason why Playoffs doesn't have a W–L% col?
    • Auerbach caption should have a comma after Celtics.checkY
    • Fitch's caption needs a "the" between "won" and "1981" and needs to have "year" capitalised.checkY
    • Auerbach's Coach of the Year years in the table need an en-dash, not a hyphen.checkY
    • You have single and double daggers in the key but not in the table.checkY

The Rambling Man (talk) 18:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support This looks pretty good now after Rambling Man's issues were resolved. Gary King (talk) 18:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This page is orphaned. There are no links to any article in the mainspace. I think you should add a link in the main article at least.--Crzycheetah 18:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:21, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments
  • Is it possible to get a more interesting lead sentence? People can look at the title to see what page they're on. Also, if you keep it as is, remove the bold link per MoS.checkY
  • Bill Russell, Tom Heinsohn, Tom Sanders, Dave Cowens, K.C. Jones, Chris Ford and M. L. Carr have all played and head coached for the Celtics. Some redundancies.checkY
Other than that, no problems, at least that I can see... Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The only thing I want in this list is that the years of term be linked. Done Annoyomous24 (talk) 22:32, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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