Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of St. Louis Cardinals first-round draft picks/archive1

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 The Rambling Man 16:33, 24 August 2010 [1].

List of St. Louis Cardinals first-round draft picks edit

Featured list candidates/List of St. Louis Cardinals first-round draft picks/archive1

Nominator(s): Wizardman 15:22, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list as a result of this list being requested. Naturally, this ended up being one of the largest lists; I don't think any other franchise we've written about yet has 66 draft picks. You would think a franchise with this many titles would have more recognizable names, but it happens. Anyway, here's the next one in the draft pick collection. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:22, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment—no dab links, no dead external links. Ucucha 15:48, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Many of the pictures are of poor quality, including the lead one. Are there no better ones available? If not, wouldn't it be better to use a higher-quality lead picture and leave some of the poorer ones further down? Ucucha 15:49, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I could replace a couple and move some around, i just didn't want the pictures to be full of just players from the past ten years. I can probably move the Brian Jordan pick up as the lead image since he had a strong career as well and the pic is better. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I swapped a couple, including the lead. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:13, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest PR} 20:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Comment Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest FLC} 07:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why doesn't 2002 always sort in the bottom?
- Not sure what this means. There's no draft pick to sort so it naturally goes to the end of the list if that's what you mean.
  - There is the class=sortbottom, so it always goes to the buttom, ascending or descending order. Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest FLC} 11:35, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Added it in, though it remained in the same area. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 22:28, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Why isn't location sortable?
- It wouldn't do much good, sorting by the first name of the high school or college, at least I don't think it would. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 23:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lead isn't the best in the world, being a summary of the stats table. Would like some subjective opinions on who of the drafts had the greatest career, failed miserably, etc. A bit more flavour. Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest PR} 20:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I changed UCLA to University of California, Los Angeles due to my general dislike of acronyms in an article that doesn't expand them. (In the interest of full disclosure, I have made several edits to this article in the past, but still consider myself impartial in evaluating it.) Courcelles 23:31, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"and one second basemen were also taken. The team also drafted one player, Leron Lee (1966), who played as an infielder.[3] " what makes the one second baseman less significant than Leron Lee? i.e. why pick out one singleton draft over another?
"they used on Braden Looper" no need to repeat first name.
"J. D. Drew (1998) is one of four first-round draft picks " vs ""MLB First Round Draft Picks". ESPN.com. ESPN Internet Ventures." consistent hyphenation (even including erroneous websites) please!

The Rambling Man (talk) 19:52, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Issues fixed. For the first one, I added it in separately as drafting someone as an infielder rather than a specific position is rather rare; I've only seen it twice in all the lists created. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:12, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - "Seven outfielders, six shortstops, six third basemen, six first basemen, four catchers, and one second basemen were also taken. The team also drafted one player, Leron Lee (1966), who played as an infielder." - The word "also" was used in consecutive sentences. --K. Annoyomous (talk) 01:49, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 17:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from KV5

As far as I'm aware, general practice is still to redlink young players who are still in baseball (not retired) at the bottom of these lists so that if articles are created for them in the future, they will be properly linked here. — KV5 • Talk • 14:05, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It was like that originally but was changed, not sure why. Redlinks put back up. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 19:40, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, well done. — KV5 • Talk • 13:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Meets FL standards. The only thing I would tweak would be "Two of the Cardinals draft picks...". The team name could possibly use an apostrophe at the end, although I'm not 100% sure it's needed. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 22:16, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Meets FL standards. I could find no problems. Because I live in the St. Louis area and I am a slightly disinterested Cardinal's fan, I gave this list an extra critical review because of the potential of conflict of interest. --Dan Dassow (talk) 23:36, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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