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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 Dabomb87 02:18, 11 July 2010 [1].

List of Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft picks[edit]

List of Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft picks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): Wizardman 18:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because it fits all criteria and is complete, like the other draft list FLs. Plus, this will complete a whole country's worth of baseball draft pick FLs (currently 0 of 1 done). Wizardman Operation Big Bear 18:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Mm40 (talk) 12:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Mm40 (talk)
Comments from Mm40 (talk). Two quick things, for now:
  • The beginning of the last paragraph...
  • I think the WS-winner indicator should have an endash between the years. Mm40 (talk) 21:37, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    Fixed. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 00:17, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Since the institution of MLB's Rule 4 Draft" – this should be "Since the Blue Jays' entrance into the league in 1977" or something similar
  • "assigning amateur baseball players" and "other amateur baseball clubs"
  • "16 of these were right-handed" → "16 of them are right-handed" – pitchers are people too!
  • You can reword the beginning of the third paragraph to something like this: "Sprague (1988), who was with the franchise when they won the World Series in 1992 and 1993, is the only pick to win a championship with the team." Also, World Series should be linked.
  • Is Schroeder's (1979) high school right?
  • Some of the in-line footnotes don't go to the relevant information at the bottom of the page when clicked. I noticed [c] and [d], but there may be more. Mm40 (talk) 13:37, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Have you checked the MLB draft history pages (like this) to check if there were any unsigned guys pre-compensation? I know I missed a couple that I had to add in recently.
  • Checked there. Blue Jays got lucky, Paxton was their first and only non-signee. I guess that's technically true that we're not done with Canada quite yet, the Expos drafted many. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 23:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

  • Captions for the Chris Carpenter and Aaron Hill photos could use cites, since their main facts aren't mentioned anywhere else.
  • In reference 10, should there be an apostrophe in Player's in Major League Baseball Player's Association? Our article on the MLBPA doesn't have one. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 21:10, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    Done. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 16:58, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Meets FL standards. Only thing I'll add is that it would be good to check other draft list articles to see if my second comment applies; I remember that source from a few past lists. Doesn't affect this nom, though. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 21:07, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 06:38, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Rios seems to have a diacritic missing on his i.
  • Catcher is overlinked in the lead.
  • "have failed to sign one" is there a reason for this? I'm a total non-expert, but this seems odd, so perhaps a footnote for us amateurs?

The Rambling Man (talk) 19:15, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I didn't find anything beyond Paxton just deciding to go back to college. Apparently his agent was Scott Boras, which automatically makes it extremely difficult to sign a draft pick. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 20:23, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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