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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 not promoted by Dabomb87 16:00, 2 February 2010 [1].

List of Australian number-one albums of 2009 edit

Nominator(s): Sk8er5000 (talk) 07:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it meets all the featured list criteria. I have put a lot of work into this list, adding references to each entry, merging rows and ensuring each entry is listed. I have also created a prose heading which I believe is of a professional standard. Regards -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 07:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from ChrisTheDude
  • "....among the releases that have reached peak position in 2009" - wrong tense, 2009 is over
  • "Kings of Leon's Only by the Night....spent 14 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, beginning in the 2008 chart year and continuing until April 13, except for three weeks in March" - this does not match the table, which shows it as off number one for six five weeks in February/March
  • Michael Jackson's name is spelt wrong in the lead
  • I Dreamed A Dream was 2009's highest selling album on the ARIA end of year albums chart, before P!nk's album Funhouse" - odd use of "before" here - do you mean that Pink's album was the second best seller? In that case used "ahead of" rather than "before"
  • Sorting is a bit odd. Because you have put multiple "issue dates" into the same row, separated by <br> tags, if you reverse sort that column, the first entry is for November 30. I'm not sure how likely it is that anyone would want to reverse sort on that column, but if they did they would get an odd-looking result
  • Also, I think some people might take umbrage with you describing Susan Boyle, who is only 48 years old, as an "old woman" in the alt text :-)

Hope this helps -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    • Suggestions actioned on. Tense fixed, MJ's name fixed, use of before changed and SuBo no longer described as old. The Kings of Leon bit refers to the total amount of time it spent at number one ("Kings of Leon's Only by the Night....spent 14 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, beginning in the 2008 chart year and continuing until April 13, except for three weeks in March"), which included part of 2008. As far as the sorting goes, it makes sense to me, as the top entry would be the last number one for 2009. Thanks for your input -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 09:29, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • We seem to be at cross-purposes regarding the Kings of Leon point. As it stands, the lead states that it was number one from some time in 2008 right through until April, other than for three weeks in March. But it was actually off the top for five weeks, not three, according to the table. Does that make sense? -- 10:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
        • Sk8er5000 deserves to be hit with a large trout xD! Done -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 11:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Don't see a need to bold Aria Charts.
  • "ARIA also issues a weekly singles chart and an end of year albums and singles chart, among other charts." chart x 3 in one sentence...
  • " 6 acts received their" - six.
  • "November 30[2], " move ref to after punc.
  • I would have thought end of year should be end-of-year.
  • "Funhouse[3]." ditto re ref position.
  • Your col heading says "Weeks at number one" and then you have "... weeks" in each cell. Do you think it's necessary to repeat weeks in every row?
  • Both image captions need full stops as they are complete sentences.
  • Don't mix up date formats in the references.

The Rambling Man (talk) 20:55, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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