Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Yankees captains/archive1

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 Giants2008 23:22, 27 February 2012 [1].

List of New York Yankees captains[edit]

Featured list candidates/List of New York Yankees captains/archive1

Nominator(s): – Muboshgu (talk) 03:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My last FLC has three supports, so here is my next one. I have a question about how to present the officially recognized vs. unofficially recognized captains in the table, though, and I'm looking forward to that feedback. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

You should not apply boldface in the first sentence, as per WP:BOLDTITLE.
Is "This is a comprehensive list of these captains." entirely necessary? Isn't it the primary purpose of the list?
Apart from the first sentence, the remainder of the lede's first paragraph comprises a definition of what a baseball captain and an historical perspective of his function. It would sound great in Captain (baseball), but not that much (at least as detailed) in this specific list.
'Yankee captains' or 'Yankees captains'?
It would be interesting to add a history section (short or not – up to you) explaining how the different captains came to be.
Do not define specific column widths to the table, it leaves a lot of unaesthetic blank space.

— Parutakupiu (talk) 02:25, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – My major concern with this list on my favorite baseball team is whether it passes criterion 3b. The last time I remember a captains list at the FL process, it was delisted for failing 3b. That had a parent list (not multiple lists), but the number of entries in the table was very similar to this list (14 here, 12 plus one entry signifying the lack of a captain there). I want to gauge the community's reaction on 3b before reviewing further. Giants2008 (Talk) 23:12, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - In my opinion this fails 3b, the information could easily be included in either a players list or the main article (which is what happened to the list that Giants highlighted). NapHit (talk) 22:54, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not sure it'd survive 3b either. There exists New York Yankees all-time roster which could be enhanced to include this kind of information. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, forgot to put this page on my watchlist. I will address the above comments. First though, I feel this page meets the 3b guideline, as a notable role receiving a great deal of press attention. Another similar list, List of Boston Red Sox captains, passed FLC (granted that nomination was years ago). – Muboshgu (talk) 21:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a few weeks since the last comment here, and I've done some work to the page. I want to see if people still feel this may not meet 3b. I feel it does, and does not benefit from being merged to a different page. But, if there isn't going to be consensus to pass this as a FL down the road, then this should close so that I can nominate another list. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:05, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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