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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 promoted by The Rambling Man 10:01, 24 March 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of honors received by Maya Angelou edit

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Nominator(s): Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because it failed its first nomination due to lack of support, and I believe it's to the point that it can pass. This also happens to the last stage in the creation of a Maya Angelou FT. Her 85th birthday is April 4, so I'd like it to happen by then. Thanks for your consideration. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support the first nomination was archived too early. Probably worth asking people to review that page. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 14:59, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. In the notes column, descriptions should not end in period, unless they are complete sentences. Also why National Book Award nomination is not mentioned in the table? Ruslik_Zero 18:42, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Removed periods. I wasn't able to find a source that states the year of the nomination, so I removed it from the lead. (Lots of sources state that it happened, though, so it belongs in other articles that don't require a year.) Thanks. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 19:19, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Astros4477
Comments –
  • Table currently does not meet MOS:DTT. Col and row scopes need to be added
Tables are such a weakness for me. This table doesn't need row scopes, so it's not necessary to include them, right?
Why wouldn't it need them?-- Astros4477 (Talk) 21:42, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Because if I'm correct, row scopes are used if the rows have headers, and this one does not. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:37, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I was under the impression that this was no longer necessary, but okay.
That may be true but in all of my FLC, they have asked for alt text.-- Astros4477 (Talk) 21:42, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Column heading "Reference" – replace with "Ref(s)", since some have more than one.

-- Astros4477 (Talk) 19:32, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All done, thanks. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 21:32, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support An excellent piece of work. Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:43, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Quick comment – Ref 17 has an excess quote mark after the publisher (New York Times) that needs removal. Giants2008 (Talk) 00:13, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, thanks. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 12:29, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 21:30, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comments much improved from the initial nomination, good work.
  • "longest-running appearance (two years)" presumably the list is updated more frequently than annually so do we know the actual number of weeks (for example)?
This isn't in the list, and when I looked for the source, I saw that it's from Angelou's webpage, something I'm trying to avoid here. So I cut it from the intro. Then because I wanted to mention at least one honor in a different area, I added Angelou's appointment at Wake Forest.
  • "Pulitzer Prize Nomination" nomination doesn't need to be capitalised. Check the others.
Only two, fixed.
  • "Horatio Alger Award" notes ends in a period but none of the others do...
Wow, can you believe that I only missed one? ;)
Got next three. The last one was just stupid.
  • Refs 16, 18, 26 "1928—" should be an en-dash, not an em-dash.
  • Ref 33 has a spare z.
  • Ref 35 needs a space after the title.
  • BBC is not a work, it's a publisher.
Got all of the above.
  • PDFs in refs normally have a format=PDF parameter added or if you're not using {{Cite web}} then you should put (PDF) manually in the ref.
Chrome, regardless of whether you put the PDF in manually or not, shows the PDF icon, as per refs 8, 38, 40. Is that true for the browser you're using?

The Rambling Man (talk) 16:56, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words, useful feedback, and catches of stupid errors. ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 21:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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