Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Coastal Carolina Chanticleers head football coaches/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 archived by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 29 December 2020 (UTC) [1].

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List of Coastal Carolina Chanticleers head football coaches

List of Coastal Carolina Chanticleers head football coaches (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:38, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I have created the article and, while admittedly short, it is comprehensive in the history of Coastal Carolina head football coaches and has a lead that is well-sourced. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:38, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Comments

• Please note, I don't know anything about college football being British and a fan of proper association football ;-)

  You may have an argument with "proper", I've never heard a foul called for "giving him the business" in soccer.

• In the first sentence you only refer to "The Coastal Carolina college football team" and then introduce the "Chanticleers" name in the second sentence without any context. To avoid this, and potential sea of blue concerns, I would reword the first two sentences as "The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers represent Coastal Carolina University in college football. The team competes in the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference, part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision."

  Fixed: I worded it slightly differently than your suggestion, with the only difference being "The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represents..."

• Numbers lower than 10 (in this case 3) should be written out as words

  Fixed

• "since it began play during the 2003 season" - surely the team began play at the start of the 2003 season, not during it (which implies midway through)?

  Fixed: changed to "since it began play in 2003"; if you think something like "since it began play for the 2003 season" would sound better I can change it to that, but I think my change conveys the meaning and cuts down on some unnecessary wordiness.

• "the team has played 204 games over 16 seasons" - 2003 to 2019 inclusive is 17 seasons, surely?

  Fixed: it is indeed. My math failed me here somehow.

• "Coastal Carolina has not yet made [singular] ....... but they [plural] made....."

  Fixed: changed "they" to "it".

• "he hadn't held" => "had not held"

  Fixed

• Note 1 - how is this relevant?

  Comment: notes 1–4 are part of Template:List of college football program head coaches key, so they appear the same on all of the "List of SCHOOL head football coaches" articles regardless of when each program was founded. If you think switching the template for an identical wikitable without the notes would be appropriate for this article I can make that change.

• Most of note 2 also doesn't seem relevant.

  Comment: see comment above.

• Note 5 - "Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019–20 college football season." this is not a complete sentence, so should not have a full stop.

  Fixed: changed to complete sentence and retained the full stop.

• Two of the refs show the full website address i.e. with the www and .edu/.com, but no others are written like this. To be consistent with the others, I would show the actual name of the publisher.

  Fixed: coastal.edu → Coastal Carolina University and si.com → Sports Illustrated.

• Date formats in the refs are not consistent - some are month first, some are day first. As this is a US subject, month first should be used throughout.

  Fixed: moved all dates to mdy format.

• Think that's it from me -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:09, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

  ChrisTheDude, thank you for taking the time to review the article! I appreciate the feedback and my responses can be seen above. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 19:01, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

• Support - I suppose the notes in the template aren't really a big deal. BTW we have had plenty of crazy referee calls in the round-ball game too :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:15, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose – Criterion 3c. Sorry, but this three-item list could easily be placed into the main Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football article, and I don't consider it to be long enough to justify splitting it into its own article. Therefore, I think the article fails to meet that part of the FL standards, so I feel forced to oppose. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:21, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

  I would agree... oppose Aza24 (talk) 01:28, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

• I concur with Giants2008. I regretfully oppose this nomination. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 14:46, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• As it has been well over a month since the last vote, and I think we can all agree that this will not pass as the current time, I am withdrawing the FL nomination. My thanks to ChrisTheDude for taking the time to help me improve the article. I'll be back with a better, and more qualified, article, in some time. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 04:03, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:32, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

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