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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:Matthewedwards 23:11, 10 January 2009 [1].

List of Pittsburgh Pirates managers and owners[edit]

I am nominating this list after a complete overhaul. Editors who have reviewed other lists of baseball managers will notice the inclusion of general managers and owners in addition to the basic manager list. I included this partially because they were already present on the list when I began my revisions and unlike other franchises, I had sources available to use. I have discussed the extra inclusion with a few editors as well as the Baseball Wikiproject and I feel that the list meets the FL criteria with the inclusion of the said material. I will address any comments or concerns to the best of my ability. Thank you! blackngold29 18:39, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from KV5
Comments from Killervogel5
  • The sorting in the "Modern day franchise" table is messed up by the rowspan in the ref column. That reference should just be named and reused.
    • Done
  • En-dashes should not be spaced for indicating ranges; this is only to indicate a sharp break, like an em-dash.
    • Done
  • Use two columns for your reflist.
    • Done
  • You mention some statistics in the lead but provide no numbers to corroborate them, so readers have to search in the table. To make the lead a proper summary of the list per WP:LEAD, I suggest adding numerical values for most wins, most losses, etc..
    • Done
  • "Thirty-eight"→"38" per WP:MOSNUM
    • Done
  • A definition for player-manager would be nice.
    • Done
  • "the Pirates's first general manager"→"Pirates'"
    • See above
  • "Neal Huntington is the Pirates current general"→"Pirates'", and add "manager" after general.
    • Done
  • Section header #4: "General Managers"→"General managers" per WP:HEAD
    • Done
  • There should be mention and notation in the tables of which managers are in the Hall of Fame, whether as players/managers or whatever. Your choice on that.
    • Done
  • "The Pirates first manager"→"Pirates'"
    • It's funny you mention this. I had never done this in the past until I read a Stephen King book in which he said you should always use 's even after an s. Obviously he's not infallible, but I can't remember learning that it is incorrect to do. Is it alright as it stays consistant throughout?
      • Actually, it's grammatically incorrect to not show the apostrophe; it signifies possessive plural for words ending in S. Since the franchise (with a plural name) is possessing the manager, the apostrophe is necessary to maintain case. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 20:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Done. Sorry, I was looking at the wrong one.
  • Pirates's now appears 7 times in the article, where before it had originally been fixed. Replace all with Pirates'. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 12:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Done I still don't think "Pirates's" is technically incorrect, but I think I got 'em all.
  • According to Pittsburgh Pirates and Baseball-Reference, the team's name is properly spelled Alleghenys, not Alleghenies. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yeah, that has come up on a few other articles. According to the Pirates Encyclopedia cited in the list and the official website it's "Alleghenies". I guess we could say "Alleghenies (sometimes spelled Alleghenys)" if you want.
  • One last comment: Picture captions using the word "from" to designate a range of years should not use en-dashes, per WP:DASH and WP:MOS; rather, they should use the word "to". In addition, captions that are complete sentences should end with periods/full stops. I think Bill McKechnie was the manager, too...KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 18:09, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Done
  • The table should be able to be sorted into pure chronological order, so managers with more than one term should have more than one entry and a footnote should be added to indicate (see List of Minnesota Twins managers).
    • If you sort the chart with the "Years" column it puts the managers in order by their first appearence. The reason I didn't list them like most have is because the sorting feature becomes pointless if we split them up: If I want to know who has the second most wins as Pirates's manager and the list is split up it would be a pain to figure out what Danny Murtaugh had accomplished, but the way it is now I know instantly. I do realize that it is a little different from most list styles in the past, but I don't think providing the totals causes the list to not meet the FL criteria.
      • I would tend to agree with you, except that this prohibits us from knowing in which orders the managers served. I certainly don't think that this make it fail WP:WIAFL, but I think that knowing where a manager served in a given season is important (for example, if one manager served for 20 games and was fired, then his replacement led his team to the playoffs). KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 20:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Alright, I understand what your saying better. I'm trying to figure out some way that we could keep the list the way it is, but also state the order of managers in a season with multiple managers. What if we added footnotes and said something like "In 1947, Billy Herman was manager for the majority of the season, but left prior to the last game leaving Bill Burwell to coach the season's final game." Would that work? We could even add their stats for each term in the footnote.
          • Could work, I suppose, but I still think that not having the chronological order available might have problems. Try it out and I will check again when it's done. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
            • I added the info as footnotes. Like I said, if we include the sortable columns (pending we can figure out what's wrong with them) it wouldn't be fair to sort the list with some managers having totals and some only part of their stats. blackngold29 03:58, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
            • I like it, looks good. However, due to the width of the column and the whitespace issue it causes, I would rather see line breaks in between terms to make wider rows, rather than commas which give us huge columns all through the table. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 12:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
              • I broke Murtaugh's years, I don't think much would be gained by breaking everyone elses. Unless the whitespace you're referring to is something similar to the Firefox/IE thing below, that is.
                • I'm still on the fence; I'm coming back to this every day to look, and every day I reformulate my opinion. Agh. Confusing. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 01:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
                  • It's really up to you. If you want to break all the years so it looks right to you, I could take a look and see what that looks like. We could also add the

A serious support from me for putting up with all my crap. Cheers. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 22:35, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from SRX

Comments - good list, few problems however

  • The Pittsburgh Pirates franchise has had 38 managers in its history. - this should not be the opening sentence, the opening sentence should state what they are what they do where they play etc.
    • Done
  • The team began play in 1882, under the name the Alleghenies, as members of the American Association. --> The team began play as the Alleghenies in the American Association.
    • Done
  • Clarke, who won (1422) and lost (969) more games than any other Pirate manager, also had the longest tenure as manager in his 16 years in the position.- there no need for the data to be in parenthesis
    • Done
  • The sortability in the American Association table does not function, it also doesn't work in the modern day franchise table
    • I don't know what the problem would be, both work perfectly fine for me.
  • Caption:Fred Clarke, manager, 1900–1915 - this caption needs to flow more Fred Clarke was the Pirates manager from 1900-1915, this also applies to the other captions-
    • Done
-SRX 16:23, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Support - comments resolved to meet WP:WIAFL, with the exception of the firefox glitch.--SRX 22:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
The sortability still does not work. If you sort something in the tables you are redirected to the top of the page, there must be something wrong with the coding of the table.--SRX 00:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Every column sorts fine for me, I don't know what would be wrong. Is this happening to anyone else? blackngold29 02:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Does not work for me either. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:46, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Could someone try to figure out what is wrong? I have two computers and it's sorting fine on both. Thanks. blackngold29 02:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Guys it is all a glitch. The glitch is only on Firefox, so if you go to for example Internet Explorer, the sort will work perfectly. -- signed by SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24 (spell my name backwards) at 04:00, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(ec) A glitch for me too, probably a Firefox thing as SRE said above. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That would make sense as I have IE. Is there anyway to fix it? I assume it has been brought up before somewhere. blackngold29 17:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh okay, its probably compatibility issues.--SRX 22:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Support, all issues resolved. Although images have not been checked, they seem to look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:26, 7 January 2009 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "The franchise has had 38 managers in its history."-->There have been 38 managers for the Pirates franchise.
    • Done
  • "Pirates's" I don't think the extra "s" after the apostrophe is necessary.
    • I left a comment about that above, it stays consistant throughout the article.
      • I also re-commented on it, because I believed it had been resolved, then it was changed to be wrong again. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 15:53, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • "prior to"-->before.
    • Done
  • "Thirteen of the Pirates's managers"-->Thirteen Pirates managers...
    • Done
  • "taking on simultaneous roles as a player and manager"-->those who take on simultaneous roles as a player and manager
    • Done
  • "Five additional Pirates's"-->Five additional Pirates
    • Done
  • Needs a note about each year being linked to that particular MLB season—see List of Houston Astros Opening Day starting pitchers.
    • Done
  • The numbers in the closing page nos. should not be single numerals, for example ref 19 should be "Finoli, Ranier 2003, p. 440–41" instead of "Finoli, Ranier 2003, p. 440–1".
    • Done
  • Can you turn off the linking trick with the Harvard citations? It isn't necessary with only one reference, and it adds a lot of unnecessary blue to the reference section. You can do this by adding Ref=none to the end of the template.
    • Done Never knew about that, thanks.
  • File:Pie-traynor.jpg needs a fair use rationale, and is it even necessary with all the free pictures on the page?
    • Removed Didn't realize it wasn't free, I'll look for a replacement.
  • File:Connie Mack in 1911.jpg needs a link to the source.
    • Not sure I understand... It is from the Commons
  • Ask User:Awadewit to verify that all images look good; I am not an expert in this area. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Your other fixes look good, have you pinged Awadewit yet? Dabomb87 (talk) 15:52, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Done

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24

Comments by -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c]

  • Add a sentence telling the readers who the current manager is.
    • Done. Lol, how did I forget that one?
  • Could add a lot more onto the first paragraph. Examples are in List of Tampa Bay Rays managers and List of Houston Astros managers.
    • Done
  • Articles shouldn't start with sub-sections. (ie. ===Table key=== --> ==Table key==)
    • Done
      • About the general managers and owners, shouldn't they also ===Table key=== --> ==Table key==? -- signed by SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24 (spell my name backwards) at 00:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Done Sorry missed that one.
  • The reason why my tables don't put managers with multiple terms into the same row is because readers have to find which one came after which (hope you know what I mean). It could be great if you seperate the terms, and to the table like on List of Washington Nationals managers.
    • Done As per the footnotes section discussed above with KV
  • Could mention which managers had their numbers retired with the Pirates.
    • Done
  • Since this is a sortable table, you could link all the years, ignoring WP:OVERLINK.
    • Done
  • Though I would like you to only include HoFers who were inducted as a manager, I don't want to start a huge discussion about something so little (just look here).
    • This is specifically mentioned in the lead. What if I changed the color of shading for those elected as players?
      • Instead of another shade, just note it. -- signed by SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24 (spell my name backwards) at 00:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Done
  • Is there a wikilink to Modern day franchise?
    • Not sure I know what you mean, the franchise is just Pittsburgh Pirates. I was thinking of changing that section to "National League", would that be better?
  • On Joe L. Brown's row, the term column has, "1956–1976, 1971". Isn't 1971 between 1956-1976?
    • Done That was a typo (corrected to 1985). His second term seemed very breif, but I could add a footnote if you need it.
  • There are a lot more categories to be added. Examples are in List of Boston Red Sox managers.
    • Done
  • You could also mention which general managers and owners were elected into the HoF.
    • Done
  • Please fix the disambiguation links.
    • Done
-- signed by SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24 (spell my name backwards) at 06:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Image review
  • File:Connie Mack in 1911.jpg - The source link on this image is broken, so I cannot verify the license.
  • File:BillMcKechnie.jpg - The source link on the image does not link to the specific HTML page for the image - it links to the general collection. Please link to the HTML page for this specific image.
    • Done
  • File:Bing Crosby.jpg - The source link for this image is broken, so I cannot verify the license.
    • Removed for now. I am not too experienced with pictures, and though I did look for the needed links I could not find them. If anyone with more knowledge of the subject would like to look for them it would be appreciated, but overall I think the pictures look fine. Thanks. blackngold29 04:39, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We need to fix up these images. Awadewit (talk) 02:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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