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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 04:36, 22 January 2008.

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I'm nominating this article for featured article because, after looking though the guidelines, I think that this would pass. Granted, although this particular article has not gone through peer review or a good article nomination (WP:GAN is so badly backlogged on sports that it's not worth it to let the article sit and wait there), I've been though a few with other baseball articles, and from them I can't see what else is really needed. Any improvements I can do, though, I'm willing to do what I can to make it FA. Wizardman 03:09, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: Your references are a little off. For sections in which only one source was used, such as the first paragraph in the body of the article, you dont need to repost the inline ref for every sentence. Jose João (talk) 06:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

   Done, wasn't sure if that was acceptable or not at first, now I know. Wizardman 16:34, 12 January 2008 (UTC) Well, since User:Secret wanted a citation elsewhere in that first paragraph, I will have to repost the same inline cite in that case. Wizardman 14:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I notice you have retrieval dates for many of the references, but a lot of them don't have links. Doesn't a retrieval date imply that the source was accessed on the web? BuddingJournalist 21:23, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  I assume you mean all the Sporting News references. I went through paperofrecord.com to access them, and the accessdates as such are the dates I viewed them. If they are unnecessary for news articles I'll remove them, I was just used to adding them in. Wizardman 22:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  Ah, I see. No don't worry about it; it was just confusing at first because there weren't any links to accompany the retrieval dates. BuddingJournalist 22:32, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm not a big fan of most of the references come from SABR, as anybody can join that organization for a fee, try to replace sources if possible. Thanks Secret ^account 00:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  Will fix what I can; at least the authors cite their sources there. Wizardman 14:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Sources: the authors should be stated—this needs major fixing.

   Not done: I really wish I could add in the authors, but any reference which does not have an author is the result of me being completely unable to find one. Any Sporting News ones I can double-check for, but any others without an author unfortunately I cannot fix. Wizardman 15:26, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

   Done with the ones I could feasibly do. Wizardman 15:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• 11-2: en dash, not hyphen. And similar examples.
• "a fifth infielder." and many more examples—see MOS on final punctuation in quotations that start within a WP sentence. Big fix required. Yet some are consistent with the MOS requirement.

   Done Wizardman 17:02, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• "seventeen" yet "13". Where's the boundary between naming and numerals?

  I try and use 10/ten as a boundary. I went and fixed seventeen, since it should've been 17, and I'll re-read over to see if I missed any. Wizardman 14:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

   Done, I think I got them all. Wizardman 02:20, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• "Military and return"—loosely worded title.

   Done Wizardman 14:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tony (talk) 14:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.