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List of New York Yankees coaches[edit]

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I spent today creating this page, and I'd like peer review prior to nominating this article as a featured list. Does the lead describe the topic well enough? Is there anything else that should be included as noteworthy (aside from the list of former Yankee players who coached, former MLB managers and future MLB managers)?

Thanks, Muboshgu (talk) 20:51, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments: While this is a good start, I think it needs some work before it can be considered for WP:FLC successfully. Here are some suggestions for improvement.

The article's lead does not meet WP:LEAD - it needs to be a summary of the whole article and my rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way, but there is no mention of the former managers and future managers and former Yankees.
The article does not have enough references. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
The use of bold (for current coaches) does not meet WP:ACCESS and is also a violation of WP:ITALIC
Biggest problem I see with this is that the last three of the four lasts are needless duplication of the first list. Expand the first list so that it is a sortable table. Add columns for Former Yankee players, Former managers, and Future managers.
I would also make it a sortable table so people could sort it alphabetically, or by dates, or by those who were former Yankees, etc.
A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow - there are a lot of FLs at Category:FL-Class Baseball articles that might be good models.
Could you indicate what position(s) these people coached?

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch poeer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:38, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, these comments are very helpful, and I can make most, if not all, of these changes. I had wanted to list them all by position, but that may be difficult to do the further back I go, because records of positions coached get murky. Is it preferable to list the positions known while listing some as "positions unknown"? --Muboshgu (talk) 15:45, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would have a column for position and just list them as unknown. Since most of the data comes from the official Yankees website, you can have a "General reference", but my guess is the people who played / managed for other teams are not listed there (and so would need refs for that). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 16:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]