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I am looking to nominate this as a featured list candidate. Suggestions to ensure that it meets the list criteria would be appreciated. Thanks, Ojorojo (talk) 14:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ojorojo - I'm not an expert on featured lists. However, I can see "Harv error: this link doesn't point to any citation" for references 18, 23, 26, 60, and 65. TwoScars (talk) 13:33, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TwoScars: Thanks for taking the time. I double checked, but can't find any problems: no "Harv error..." and clicking on the refs leads to the entries in "References", just like they should. All of the citations in the table "Refs" column are formatted the same. Sometimes my computer doesn't display properly, but otherwise don't have an explanation. Do you have any ideas? —Ojorojo (talk) 14:59, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I changed some setting long ago that allows me to see those problems. I have no idea how I did it. For Footnote 18 Moseley has year 2000 instead of 1996. For Footnote 26 Oaklahoma Today has year 1991 instead of 1999. The others probably have something similar. TwoScars (talk) 16:50, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Very helpful. I've fixed those and will go through the rest. Thanks again. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:41, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks clean now. TwoScars (talk) 19:11, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Kavyansh.Singh edit

@TwoScars – A few relatively minor comments. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:57, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Link World War II in the lead
All the referenced need to be center aligned.
Some citations have locations like "Farmington Hills, Michigan", "Oxford, England", etc. while most of the others don't have. I'll suggest to remove it for maintaining consistency.
"Voices from the Heartland: A Cultural History of the Blues" needs publisher, which appears to be University of California Press
"The Blues Foundation" – either pipe 'The' inside the link, or remove 'The'
"Dictionnaire du Blues: Les Dictionnaires d'Universalis" – provide translation inside square brakets
Although not necessary, and completely up-to you, I'll suggest to separate books, articles/magazines/journals, and news sources by using suitable subheadings.
The sole image needs ALT text.
I'm not an expert, but is the list complete? Are there no other blues standards?
If all the above comments are addressed, I don't think there would be any other major issues, thus it should be suitable for direct nomination. All other issues would be relatively minor ones, which can be addressed during the review. Thanks! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:57, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and made the changes. A previous version had the selection criteria, which got lost and now has been re-added. Thank you for your comments. —Ojorojo (talk) 14:38, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed the sorting issue with the table, particularly in the 'First recorded by' column. When sorted, it goes like 'Bo Diddley; Lucille Bogan; Eddie Boyd'. Similar issue in 'Charting single(s) by' column. I'll suggest to keep 'Charting single(s) by' column un-sortable, and using {{sortname}} template in 'First recorded by' column. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:10, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It didn't quite work as hoped, so I removed the sorting option from "Charting" column. In the "First" column, several of the names are stage names, which are alphabetized by the first word rather than the last ("Guitar Slim" is indexed under "G" rather than "S"). Some are more obvious than others – Diddley, Waters, Wolf are not real nor legal last names; Maceo, Walter are first names. But I doubled checked and switched from data-sort-value= to {{sortname}}. Thanks again. —Ojorojo (talk) 16:38, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]