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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 Scorpion0422 23:36, 7 February 2009 [1].

New York Islanders seasons[edit]

iMatthew // talk // 13:47, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Truco

Comments from Truco (talk · contribs)

  • The New York Islanders are an American ice hockey team that compete in the National Hockey League (NHL). - the statement about the competing in the NHL should be in the following sentence, this should state where they are based, considering its never mentioned in the prose
  • Since 1972, the team has played its home games in Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. - this sentence makes it seem like there was a previous venue, how about stating that 1972 was their inaugural season, or along the lines of that
  • In 36 completed seasons, the team has won four Stanley Cup championships and has qualified for the playoffs 21 times. - is there a specific link to the NHL playoffs?
  • They have played more than 230 playoff games, and won more than 130 of them. - repetition of more than, replace the second occurrence with "over"
  • As of the end of the 2007–08 season, New York had won more than 1,200 regular season games, the 14th-highest victory total among NHL teams. - link to this season?
  • The Islanders were founded in 1972, and won their first out their four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in 1980. - needs rewording to "The Islanders were founded in 1972, and won their first out of four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in 1980."
  • Since then, the team went as far as losing the Conference Finals in 1993 to eventual Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens. - wouldn't it be "champions" not champion?
  • Since then, the Islanders entered a period of decline, qualifying for the playoffs once from 1994 to 2001. - 1)reword the first part of the sentence, its too repetitive with the previous way the sentence began. 2)the from should "between" and the to should be "and"
  • The Islanders have never won the Presidents' Trophy, although they led the NHL in regular season points three times before the league began awarding the trophy, winning the Stanley Cup in two out of the three seasons. - the last clause of this sentence needs to be a new sentence or in after a semi-colon and beginning with "they won the..."
  • What's verifying Note C?
  • Are the notes in the tables verified by the general references?
  • Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes - why is this needed if the table key does the same thing? In addition, some of these should be placed in the key--TRUCO 18:58, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Done with everything. iMatthew // talk // 19:26, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Note A: "The Rangers were placed in the Clarence Campbell Conference's Patrick Division." Did somebody copy that note from the Rangers list I worked on, by chance? Also, the general reference for Hockey Database has a typo: "Hockey Datebase". Good luck! Giants2008 (17-14) 03:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done with your comments. Thanks! iMatthew // talk // 12:53, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:24, 31 January 2009 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "the team has won four Stanley Cup championships and has qualified for the playoffs 21 times." Comparative quantities should be written the same way.
  • "their first out four consecutive" What does "out" mean?
  • "Since then, the team went as far as losing the Conference Finals in 1993 to eventual Stanley Cup champions Montreal Canadiens. Since then, the Islanders only qualified for the playoffs once between 1994 and 2001. " Very choppy prose; repetition of "Since then" is annoying. "went as far as" is ungrammatical.
  • "regular season points"-->regular-season points
  • "The Islanders last qualified for the playoffs in 2007, while their most recent playoff series victory was in 1993. "-->The Islanders last qualified for the playoffs in 2007; their most recent playoff series victory was in 1993. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:57, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources look good although note Giant's comment on the typo. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:57, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done with your comments. Thanks! iMatthew // talk // 12:53, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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