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The list was promoted by User:Matthewedwards 22:08, 8 November 2008 [1].

List of San Diego Padres Opening Day starting pitchers[edit]

I am nominating this list because I believe that this completes all of the FL criteria. This is also my second nomination for this FLC Contest. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 01:58, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Review by SrX
Review by SRX (talk · contribs)
  • The Padres first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma, who received a win against the Houston Astros. how about "earned" versus "received."
The word, "earned", sounds a little bit too POV. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Randy Jones and Eric Show ties the Padres' record for most Opening Day starts with four, and both of them combined have an Opening Day record of 3 wins, 3 losses, and 2 no decisions - ties should be singular. Also how about ..and both have a combined Opening Day record..etc
done -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jones also hold the most Opening Day starts consecutively with 3, holding it with Andy Benes and Jake Peavy. - "hold" should be pluaral. Well if he holds the record with other players, then the sentence is incorrect because he himself doesn't hold the most starts, needs rewording.
done Check it if I did something wrong. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Andy Benes has the most Opening Day losses consecutively with 3 from 1993 to 1995. Jake Peavy was the Opening Day starting pitcher for the Padres since 2006. - 1)Benes and Peavy do not need to be linked again per WP:OVERLINK. 2)You have already mentioned them, you have to just mention them by their last name.
fixed -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overall, the Padres's Opening Day starting pitchers have a record of 8 wins and 5 losses at San Diego Stadium/Jack Murphy Stadium/Qualcomm Stadium, and 2 wins and 0 losses at Petco Park. "Padres's" should be "Padres'"
done -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • In addition, although the Padres were nominally the home team on Opening Day 1999, the game was played in Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. - "In addition" is a bad transclusion. How about "On Opening Day in 1999, the game was played in Estadio de Beisbol Moterrey in Monterrey, Mexico." You should say why, to make it seem notable.
I don't really think it's a bad transclusion, since if I put it your way, then they wouldn't know if they were home or away. Also, I don't know why they had it in Mexico. I'll try searching it up. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why is the score in 1985 "03"?
fixed -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
--SRX 03:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support - Meets WP:WIAFL, but another thing that stands out is the heavy reliance on the Baseball-reference website, there needs to be more diversity of sources.--SRX 23:33, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - all FL criteria appears to be met. Good job. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 15:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support—Meets all criteria and matches the format of other Featured Opening Day lists. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Consistent with the other Opening Day starting pitcher lists that are Featured Lists. In the interest of full disclosre, I have made an edit to this page prior to the FLC. - Rlendog (talk) 19:38, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from RyanCross

Comments from RyanCross:

done -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 20:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
done
  • "In addition, although the Padres were nominally the home team" – "nominally" to "normally"? Not sure if this was a type or not, so I'll let you decide.
I just copied the sentence structure from the List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 20:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Make the 90% font-size in the wikitable to 100% – Avoid small fonts
done
– RyanCross (talk) 19:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Meets featured list criteria and all my comments have been resolved. Nice work, – RyanCross (talk) 21:15, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments
    • San Diego Stadium/Jack Murphy Stadium/Qualcomm Stadium - is this really necessary? Just use the current name.
I rewrote the sentence. Check if I did anything wrong. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Why are you using boldface inside the table? If it's not necessary, don't use it.
Look at the key first. The bold faces letterings are to indicate the home stadium. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can look at the key all day and still I will not understand why it's necessary to use boldface in this table. Boldface should only be used where WP:BOLDFACE tells you. I don't see anywhere the "use bold to indicate something" guideline.--Crzycheetah 07:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So how do I fixed this? Italics? Not even indicate it at all? -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 07:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Why are there <br>'s in the table headers?
fixed I was to make the table smaller, but I changed to now. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Should Final Score → Final score ?
fixed -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • in brackets are the number of innings over than 9 - reword please
done If it is still horribly worded, I suggest you word it for me, as I only have an intermediate understanding of English. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 05:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--Crzycheetah 04:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Killervogel5
Comments from Killervogel5
  • "The Padres have used 23 different Opening Day starting pitchers in its 40 seasons." - subject and object do not agree. It needs to be "Padres franchise" or "their 40 seasons." One or the other.
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The Padres first Opening Day starting pitcher" - Padres'
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Key: "No Decision" - No decision. No caps in the second word.
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you are going to link no decision in the key (really not necessary because it's linked above), it should not be linked twice in quick succession. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on!
  • Neither the Pat Dobson image nor the Eric Show image have fair use rationales for use in this article, and I doubt that you can provide one because there are other appropriate images already being used to illustrate. Remove.
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hope this helps. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:13, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Addition (KV5)
  • All numbers 10 and below need to be written out (i.e., one, three, nine, etc.). There are a lot of these in the lead.
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 00:22, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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