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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:The Rambling Man 16:40, 1 July 2008 [1].

List of U.S. Open (golf) champions[edit]

I'm nominating this list for featured list candidacy as I believe this list meets all the criteria, a list similar to this List of Masters Tournament champions has already passed feature status and this list is similar in style. Thanks in advance or your comments NapHit (talk) 17:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved stuff from Drewcifer
  • Comments There's a few accessibility issues: information shouldn't be described only by images (the flag icons) or colors (the amateur/playoff things). Some sort of text-based equivalent is needed. But, that doesn't necessarily mean you have to get rid of the flag icons and the colors, but by themselves they aren't enough. Also, the year column should be centered. Also, it would be good to separate footnotes and citations into separate sections.Drewcifer (talk) 18:05, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There is text for the colours which indicate playoffs, every colour has an accompanying footnote. I'm opposed to the idea of using the text for flags, as its quite clear by the flag what country it is and many other lists such as List of UEFA Cup winning managers have used this format and passed featured list status. NapHit (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Adding text is encouraged for accessibility reasons, per WP:ACCESS, where in some cases Wikipedia articles are read without images (such as for mobile devices). Gary King (talk) 18:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok I've fixed the flags they now all have the three letter after the flags. NapHit (talk) 16:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good. Also take a look at the other issues I brought up, since those have yet to be addressed as far as I can tell.. Drewcifer (talk) 21:05, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done it all now I think NapHit (talk) 17:22, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Looks great. Drewcifer (talk) 19:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
  • You can make the lead image bigger (as long as the resolution supports it) per WP:MOS#Images - it encourages lead images to be at least 300px (I think 250px in this case as the image isn't that big).
  • Try a more imaginative lead sentence than saying "This is a [TITLE OF LIST]".
  • "Tiger Woods holds the distinction of being the most strokes under par for 72 holes. He was 12 strokes under par (-12) when he won in 2000.[6]" consider merging these two sentences.
  • "(n/a) = Information not available" looks odd as it's bigger than the rest of the legend. Also, why is not available in italics? (n/a) isn't...
  • You need to explain E for even par.
  • I see it in ref 7 (explanation of E), but you need a space before the E.
  • ref 28 appears to be missing a full stop.

The Rambling Man (talk) 07:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed everything you mentioned except the image size which balloons in size when I put 250px in instead of upright. NapHit (talk) 16:07, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Just a couple for now.

  • Remove "The following is a list of U.S. Open (golf) champions." which simply repeats the article title, and open with something that engages the reader.
done NapHit (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • besides the salmon, blue and green shaded cells, you need some kind of marker to identify, per WP:ACCESS. Asterisks, daggers and carets would be fine.
done NapHit (talk) 13:20, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 05:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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