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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:Scorpion0422 20:31, 29 November 2008 [1].

List of Portland Trail Blazers head coaches[edit]

-- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 22:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from SRX

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  • The Trail Blazers has also sold out 814 consecutive home games from 1977 through 1995, the longest such streak in American professional sports. - source?
The source is after the last sentence in the paragraph. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 22:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The #, name, and terms should be made sortable.
I'll see if it can work. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 22:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It can't work. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 22:37, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
--SRX 22:31, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - My comments were resolved to comply with WP:FL?.--SRX 22:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Chris! ct 02:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments by Chrishomingtang
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I copied the link from Portland Trail Blazers. Should be a reliable source since that good article is using it. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 01:16, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That reasoning does not establish reliability; however, this: "Source: International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 50. St. James Press, 2003. " listed at the bottom of the page may. Ask User:Ealdgyth about this one. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:50, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I added two more references to support to fundinguniverse.com one. I'll ask Ealdgyth right now. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:44, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ealdgyth is on vacation, but I checked out the links with link checker tool, and it looks like sources look okay. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:49, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note that http://www.thocp.net/biographies/allen_paul.htm may not be entirely reliable, since it use Wikipedia as one of its sources. This http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1114257/index.htm could be a replacement. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:50, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think you should remove the fundinguniverse.com ref since you now have replacement.—Chris! ct 05:06, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I still need it for the sentence about the consecutive sold outs. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 05:24, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Then please find a better source for that fact. Will support if this is done.—Chris! ct 06:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 06:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
One more thing, "This is a list of head coaches of the Portland Trail Blazers" -> "Portland Trail Blazers"—Chris! ct 16:47, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:20, 17 November 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team that plays in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Based in Portland, Oregon,"-->The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). I'm not just suggesting that you should change it to the other way because that is what other head coach FL lists do. It's also because the way it is now, the first sentence has way too much jargon for the uninformed reader (Northwest Division, Western Conference, and NBA). The lead sentence should just establish definition and notability: " American professional basketball team" provides the those elements, "Portland, Oregon" provides context (location). Anything more is too much.
  • "The Trail Blazers has also sold" "has"-->have.
  • ". Mike Schuler and Mike Dunleavy have been named the NBA Coach of the Year, in 1986–87 and 1998–99 respectively, with the Trail Blazers." Extra period at the beginning of the sentence. "have been named the NBA Coach of the Year"-->won the NBA Coach of the Year Award.
  • "currently" (used twice in lead)—against MOS (See WP:MOS#Precise language, and is unnecessary because the use of the present tense conveys the "currently" information anyway. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:50, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE all. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Killervogel5
Comments (KV5)
  • Articles don't start with "This is an article about...", so lists shouldn't either. Find a more appropriate and interesting opening hook.
Another user did that, not me. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 21:37, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per BOLDTITLE, no links in the bold title. This might be resolved by changing the first sentence as well.
Another user did that, not me. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 21:37, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The above two still need to be changed, whether you made the alterations or not. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 22:18, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • In the first para, 1970 is not linked, and 1995 is linked twice.
They are different link. Laugh out loud. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 21:37, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Other than that, it looks good. Well done. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 17:30, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. Support from KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 23:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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