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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 Dabomb87 22:38, 19 January 2011 [1].

Nashville Vols all-time roster edit

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Nominator(s): NatureBoyMD (talk) 02:42, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it meets all the critera to be recognized as a Featured List. NatureBoyMD (talk) 02:42, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Golbez (talk) 18:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
*I see some last-name-only players in the list; when I went to a general reference to find out more about them, I was presented with five general references, with no indication what was different between them. Are they proper for a specific timespan? If so, that needs to be clarified. You can't expect the reader to surf five similar links to find a bit of information. --Golbez (talk) 11:36, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Would providing references to Baseball-Reference profiles for players who are only known by last names be an acceptable means of identifying these players? NatureBoyMD (talk) 16:31, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't want to say yes and encourage you to do that before the main issue of having five general references that are indistinguishable from another is dealt with. :) If I knew which reference to look at for which time period, I might not need specific references for the ones with no first names. But I don't know which to go to; the article doesn't state when the team was in what class, and the references should themselves state, I think, what years they're relevant for. --Golbez (talk) 16:40, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • I now see that the leagues are mentioned at the top of the article, and that's good and I apologize for not noticing that before; however, you're now asking people in the middle of the list to have to shoot to the top of the article, read the prose to find which league is relevant, and then jump to the bottom and find with reference to go to. The relevant years should be added to the five reference citations, so we don't have to hunt. --Golbez (talk) 16:44, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • I added year ranges to the general references and sorted them in chronological order. NatureBoyMD (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


  • Two more things: One, does this really need to be split into four tables? Two, many of the names have been wisely blacklinked but there's still a few redlinks, but they all appear to be for people who went on to the MLB, so that makes sense, it makes sense they'd have articles some day, whereas the blacklinks are much less likely. So no complaint on that one, just more of a statement of acknowledgment. But still, #1! --Golbez (talk) 18:58, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have combined them into one. It was split into four tables to ease load times during editing. Of course there shouldn't be a need to edit the table extensively as no one will be added. NatureBoyMD (talk) 21:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • Heh, I've been there. Support. There's a lot of empty space on the right but I'm not sure I want to say "add a few dozen more pictures". Certainly not going to cut off support for it. --Golbez (talk) 21:32, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 18:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • "the team was inactive in 1962" why?
  • What does the affiliation mean (sorry, I'm a non-expert) and are the various affiliations referenced?
  • Career columns don't sort correctly for me in Safari. I expect it's to do with some being pure numbers and some having commas/en-dashes.
  • "Vols pitcher from 1913 toi 1914" typo.
  • You may also benefit from being aware of the on-going "discussion" at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (B)/archive1 with regard to the use of baseball-reference.

The Rambling Man (talk) 17:41, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support – I think this is a nice list, and I like the many old photos of the players. The one thing I will say is that the MLB affiliations part is a bit of an odd fit with the rest of that paragraph. Not too sure what can be done about it, though. Maybe move it to the next paragraph? Giants2008 (27 and counting) 22:12, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for the suggestion. I started a new paragraph with the affiliation part. NatureBoyMD (talk) 22:22, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments:
    • The lead seems to jump right in, without having that original introduction sentence. I'd tweak wording, something like "The Nashville Vols were a minor league franchise that played in Nashville..."
    • "All minor league teams are affiliated with a Major League Baseball team." not true actually; it wasn't until about the 60s that all minor league teams became part of major league farm systems. Reword.

Only issues I have; fix and I'll support. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 02:08, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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