Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Texas Rangers managers/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 User:The Rambling Man 11:13, 3 August 2008 [1].

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List of Texas Rangers managers

I have worked on the article, and believe it meets criteria. Thanks for the comments in advance.--LAAFan 23:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

• Comments
  • You've linked Major League Baseball twice in quick succession in the lead.
  • "The Rangers are based in Arlington, Texas. They are members ..." merge.
  • "...first manager of the then Washington Senators in ..." confusing to non-experts who aren't aware of the mobility of franchises. Explain further.
  • "In 1963, manager Mickey Vernon was fired " this is repeated.
  • "In terms of tenure, Bobby Valentine has managed more games and seasons than any other coach in franchise history" why do you need "in terms of tenure"? He's either managed more games and seasons than any other coach or not. And is it all franchises history or just the Rangers franchise history?
  • "as Yost was never meant to be the manager" says who?
  • Lots of focus on interim managers and not much focus on the longer term managers in the lead, seems an odd bias.
  • Valentine and Oates are over-linked in the lead.
  • The franchise rename/relocation isn't reflected in the table as it could be (per NFL lists).
  • Kevin Kennedy points to a dab page.
  • Ref 3 could use a date.
• The Rambling Man (talk) 07:15, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments from Killervogel5

• "then Washington manager" should be "then-Washington manager".
• I agree with the above reviewers that there is a big focus on interim managers. If you are looking for content to address with the lead, how about managerial records? Who's statistically the best? Who's the worst? Who was there the longest?
• Why not make the table sortable? Click here for more info, or I can help.
• Darrell Johnson isn't linked in the lead.
• You have a footnote at the bottom and in the key about managers having more than one term, but no manager does. It's extra data that really doesn't need to be in the list. It can be removed, and then if it needs to go in at some future date, it can go back in then.
• If you are going to use the Texas Rangers navbox, then the list in the navbox should be changed so that it links properly to the article, rather than through a redirect.

That's all from me.

Review by KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 00:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

• Arlington is a dablink, and the MOS says Arlington, Texas, not Arlington, Texas anyway, since the reader will easily be able to get to Texas from Arlington, Texas if they have to. Also, a 2×6 pixel comma isn't enough to separate links, as prescribed at MOS:LINK
• "The only Rangers manager to make it to the postseason" what or where is the postseason?
• "while with Texas." The state, or the team, which you have previously shortened to "The Rangers"?
• "In 1963, manager Mickey Vernon was fired and replaced by Eddie Yost." did Yost do the firing too? And can a better term that fired be thought of? It sounds too informal.
• "One game later, Yost was replaced by Gil Hodges, as Yost was never meant to be the manager." Why not?
• "After one game as manager, Connie Ryan." I think this sentence is missing some words

Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 07:57, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

• • I reformatted the Level 4 headings on this page too, as they were causing havoc on WP:FLC by having too many [edit] sections. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 07:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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