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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 00:56, 17 December 2008 [1].

List of Washington Capitals head coaches[edit]

Though I just 5x expanded this article 30 minutes ago (or less than that), I do believe that this article is ready for this promotion. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:07, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comment from SRX

Comment - wow 30 mins of work leads to an excellent list, except for one thing.

  • Bryan Murray and Bruce Boudreau are the Capitals coaches to have each won the Jack Adams Award. - only needs to be added before Capitals.--SRX 22:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 23:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:09, 5 December 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "formerly known as MCI Center"-->formerly known as the MCI Center
  • "The Capitals are owned by Ted Leonsis, with George McPhee as their general manager." "with"-->and.
Are you sure? Wouldn't readers think that George McPhee is also a owner? "The Capitals are owned by Ted Leonsis, and George McPhee as their general manager." Doesn't sound right. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I meant "The Capitals are owned by Ted Leonsis, and George McPhee is their general manager."
That sounds more reasonable. DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's part of About.com. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
About.com is not necessarily reliable, I asked User:Ealdgyth to put in her opinion here. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'll just wait for Ealdgyth's reply until I do something about it. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
About.com is not reliable, so you should replace it.—Chris! ct 03:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can you tell me why About.com isn't reliable? -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 03:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 16#Huffington Post.2C_Gawker_and_About.com; generally, About.com is not considered reliable because anyone can write for the website; there is no fact checking or editorial oversight; the reliability of the page depends on whether the author meets WP:SPS as an expert. Why don't you use the official rules from NHL.com? Dabomb87 (talk) 03:29, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Changed ref. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 03:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dabomb87 (talk) 02:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DONE the ones without comments. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:09, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments by Chrishomingtang

Comment

  • "Roger Crozier is the franchise's all-time leader for the least regular-season games coached (1), the least regular-season game wins (0), and the least regular-season points (0), as he only coached one game in his entire Capitals coaching career." Read like a run on sentence to me. Need to reword
Can you suggest a rewording? -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 03:29, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe just say Roger Crozier, who has only coached one game for the Capitals, is the franchise's all-time leader for the least regular-season game wins (0) and the least regular-season points (0). Or something similar.—Chris! ct 04:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE, but removed the least regular season wins one. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 04:59, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Bryan Murray and Bruce Boudreau are the only Capitals coaches to have each won the Jack Adams Award." Remove "each"
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 03:29, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Jack Adams Award in the table need refs
Look at the column heading, "Achievements". -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 03:29, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, either place all the refs at the column heading like ref 6, or place them all next to award names like ref 4.—Chris! ct 05:43, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 06:04, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The About.com ref issue need to be resolved.
    • SRE replaced that reference with the official rulebook. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:09, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
—Chris! ct 03:26, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Support Comment from Nurmsook (talk · contribs)

Both would be fine, but I would like to wikilink it to Head coach because Coach (ice hockey) refers to both the head and the assistant coaches. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 02:33, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Further comments
    • Make sure all season articles have endashes in the link, I noticed a couple that simply use a hyphen, thus linking to a dab page. Also, the "stats as of 2007–08" link links to the NBA article, not the NHL one as it should. Be careful with this, I've caught it on a few other of these articles as well.
    • Could you switch the html endashes and emdashes to simply the symbols (– and —). This will reduce bandwidth and load time of the page. – Nurmsook! talk... 17:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
DONE all. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 23:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Add a playoff winning percentage column. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DONE -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 01:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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