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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 20:56, 30 September 2008 [1].

List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers[edit]

Based upon List of Seattle Mariners Opening Day starting pitchers, a FL, RyRy (talk · contribs), Rlendog (talk · contribs) and I wish to co-nominate this article for FL. --Admrboltz (talk) 23:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

conoms: RyRy (talk); Rlendog (talk)
  • Comment MoSDASH issues in the lead image caption. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - As someone who's worked on other articles of this type, I am impressed by the multiple reference (which all seem fairly reliabe), and the detailed introduction. Very good article! --Mr.crabby (Talk) 03:06, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved stuff from NapHit

Comments

  • "Dring this period" - typo
  • "Tom Seaver won 6 starts and got 5 no decisions" - generally numbers below 10 should be written out
  • Years should be centrally aligned, as should the decisions column
  • Just out of interest why is "(III)" next to sportsman's field
  • Change one of the two colours to help users distinguish between information
  •  Fixed -- Used 3 colors - one for World Champion, one for NL champ; and one for making playoffs but not World Series. Rlendog (talk) 02:10, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Are there no more free use images that you could use?
  • I've checked, and there are no more I could use. -- RyRy (talk) 19:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • You have formatted the ref for baseball reference why not the rest, by format I mean link the publisher
  •  Fixed -- (I think) Most of the refs are published by the New York Times, which is linked in its first usage. I also added a link for the first usage of MLB.com in the refs. Baseball Almanac is not linked, since there is no Wikipedia article for it to link to.Rlendog (talk) 02:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also New York Times should be in italics to achieve this change the publisher part of the ref to work
Overall it looks pretty good NapHit (talk) 18:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Great work, well done NapHit (talk) 14:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Current ref 2 (Box Score...) is lacking a publisher.
Otherwise sources look good, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 12:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I think the image needs to be addressed. The caption needs another comma before "being." But the image itself is throwing me off. There isn't a single photo out there of a Mets opening day starter in a Mets uniform? The photo will throw people off because it says "Mets opening day starters" but the image we're using is of him as a Brave. Additionally, I'm not so sure about its free use. Essentially, the photo is a screenshot of the scoreboard which seems like it would be fair use since what's displayed on the screen is the Braves' work. I think a more definite free use image should be used (there are free images of Pedro and Johan on their articles). Metros (talk) 10:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Done -- The image has been removed. Rlendog (talk) 21:53, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 15:56, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

  • Link ballpark.
  • "The New York Mets are..." vs "The New York Mets have used 19 different Opening Day starting pitchers in its..." - consistency of plural/singular approach to the Mets.
  • "won six starts and got five no decisions" - hate the "got" bit - consider a reword?
  •  Done - Reworded to "won six starts with five no decisions" (alternatively we can use "won six starts and earned five no decisions") -- RyRy (talk) 23:36, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Opening Day 2000" - is this some sort of official title? if not, "...in 2000"
  • " reigning the 1969 and 1986 World Series champions." - is this US phrasing? It doesn't read well to a BritEng - winning those championships would make sense, "reigning the ... champions" just seems odd to me.
  • "those years during the NLDS" - rephrase please.
  • Consider making ref 1 just a general reference.
  • Pitcher name doesn't sort by surname as I'd expect.
  •  Done -- It should sort now. I wish there was a way to do this while maintining the link to the specific player's page, rather than going through a disambiguation page.Rlendog (talk) 22:12, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
-- Figured out how to address the disambiguation and sort. So now both work. Rlendog (talk) 00:08, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Avoid small fonts - no need.
  • New York Times is actually called "The New York Times"
The Rambling Man (talk) 18:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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