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The list was promoted by Dabomb87 15:17, 16 July 2010 [1].

List of Detroit Tigers first-round draft picks edit

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Nominator(s): Staxringold talkcontribs 23:25, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let me apologize now for starting 2 FLCs at once. First off I'd actually meant to nom this Tigers list last night when I finished but I forgot. Also I thought the little Yankees no-hitters project would take a while, but I ended up spending all day on it and just finished it in one go instead. I promise this is it for a bit, anything else will take quite a while to get done. Staxringold talkcontribs 23:25, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Wizardman Operation Big Bear 04:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
*Comments:
    • There are a lot of disambiguation links. See [2].
    • I would delink Wheatland; he last played in 2006 so he's done.
    • One ref says "Major League Baseball Player's Association". Apostrophe not needed (and we should probably check all the others since they probably have it that way too).
    • Highlight Lance Parrish and Kirk Gibson's '84 championship in the table.
    • "Two of the Tiger' first-round picks" Tigers'
    • "the first overall selection once (1997)." 1997's linked in the table so it doesn't need to be here.
  • I disagree. The players are linked in the table but also in the lead. All the previous lists have had these linked in prose links for first-overall draft picks. The link makes it easy for someone to say "Huh, 1997 first overall pick? What'd that look like that year? [click]" Staxringold talkcontribs 19:22, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • As an aside, that's the fewest comp/supp picks I've seen so far by quite a lot.
  • Yupyup, I was extra happy to happen upon this one when I realized how little tedium there would be in that usually annoying area. Staxringold talkcontribs 19:22, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wizardman Operation Big Bear 17:10, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Support – Matt Brunson's draft pick number is sorting incorrectly when sorted from latest pick to earliest pick. Oddly, it's not doing that when sorted earliest to latest. That was the only issue I spotted. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 21:19, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd forgotten the sort template on that one (which is needed for all single-digit numbers in a column with 2 digit figures). Fixed. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:54, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Why is the V for the free agents note not A since it was mentioned first in the article, which should it not go in alphabetical order?BLUEDOGTN 04:32, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Notes don't always go in alphabetical order. V was chosen to go with "Value". If anything I think it's good that it stands out from the gaining/losing pick notes. Staxringold talkcontribs 10:54, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you like it then I guess it is okay but Example by The Rambling Man said that I had to put all notes in numerical order? Is he wrong or should this be changed? I can support it either way I was just raising an issue based on past FLC's of mine, that's all follks.BLUEDOGTN 18:09, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm looking from the outside in and after the fact at that nom, but I imagine that that goes to the style of the notes. It would be weird if, for example, one of the gained/lost notes on this was suddenly a # instead of a letter because that would break with the style. The Type A/B free agent note, however, is a wholly separate note and so (at least IMO) doesn't carry the same style restrictions. Staxringold talkcontribs 18:21, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the explaination, I give my support to it to be promoted!BLUEDOGTN 20:01, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment
  • "The Tigers once failed to sign their first-round pick. Rick Konik (1966) did not sign but the Tigers received no compensatory pick.[10]" Is there a reason why they didn't get an extra pick? Would this work better as one sentence? Courcelles (talk) 15:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • The compensatory pick rule didn't come along until later in the history of the draft (but I don't know/have a source on the exact year) so some early unsigned picks are just "Oh well"s in the history of a franchise. One sentence'd. Staxringold talkcontribs 18:19, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 08:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • "drafted as an infielder and ultimately spent" -> "infielder but ultimately"...?
  • "and Texas follows with seven players" -> "followed by Texas with seven."
  • "taking home the" home is redundant here.
  • "was the Tigers first ever" missing apostrophe perhaps?
  • "Rick Porcello was taken with the 27th pick of the 2007 draft, the deepest first-round pick the Tigers' have ever made with a non-compensatory pick." pick x 3 reads poorly, and not sure you need the apostrophe there.

The Rambling Man (talk) 13:30, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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