Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Mets first-round draft picks/archive1

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 15:25, 9 January 2010 [1].

List of New York Mets first-round draft picks

Nominator(s): Staxringold _talk^contribs 02:35, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Featured list candidates/List of New York Mets first-round draft picks/archive1

I am nominating this for featured list because I plan on creating this series of lists soon (for the Wikicup) and want to get the style down pat to make the process easier. This is built in the style of List of Philadelphia Phillies first-round draft picks, a featured list. Staxringold _talk^contribs 02:35, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support from KV5 (Talk • Phils) 21:23, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from KV5

Comments from KV5

6 dablinks.

Grah, tried to catch most of these manually, should've checked the tool. Thanks, fixed. Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have some redlinks and some "blacklinks" for players and schools... is there a difference?

Not really. The players I left blacklinked because the vast majority are guys who never made the majors and (particularly for the older ones) are unlikely to ever meet notability standards. I suppose the difference is the school could gain the notability to warrant an article, but I'll delink for now. Gonna leave Randy Sterling redlinked, however, as he does technically pass WP:ATHLETE having played (briefly) in the majors (similar to that article you created which I often cite when discussing WP:ATHLETE, Drew Carpenter). Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The schools should still be redlinked, as I believe all high schools are considered inherently notable. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 02:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is I can't really. Many have very generic names, and the precise style for disambig'ed schools isn't consistent enough to where I could point to the proper spot for the article anyways. Plus, it's a very common practice to leave redlinks blacklisted when they are in large quantity (to avoid looking incomplete, I assume). See List of unreleased Michael Jackson material (I'd say a Michael Jackson song is more notable than some random high school) or List of tallest buildings in Oakland, California, to pull 2 recently featured examples. And both of those have "blacklinks" on material which is actually an entry on the list, not simply a fact about an entry as a school is. Staxringold _talk^contribs 02:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Also not sure high schools are inherently notable. They seem to fail Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) which mentions that it includes "educational institutions", barring coverage from 2ndary sources. The line is coverage in secondary sources, which is an article-by-article standard, not an inherent one. Plus the "chains and franchises" note seems to indirectly get at this point. Staxringold _talk^contribs 03:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lead image needs alt text, and no period on caption because it's not a complete sentence.

Done. Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"one of only two first overall picks along with Brien Taylor to never play in the major leagues" - some kind of separation is needed for the phrase "along with Brien Taylor", either parentheses, spaced en-dashes, or unspaced em-dashes.

Done. Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise well done. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:33, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I figured I'd needle you, the Phillies fan, by basing the Mets list off the Phillies list. :) Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't bother me. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 19:03, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Darn, wanted to make use of that storied Mets–Phillies rivalry. :) Staxringold _talk^contribs 19:19, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's only storied because I made it a GA :-p. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 19:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

~~"played in the 1986 World Series for the Mets' 1986 championship team." No need to repeat 1986 like this. Perhaps try "second championship team"?~~

Fixed. Staxringold _talk^contribs 03:16, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Major issue: most of the yearly Baseball-Reference links are redirecting to a page listing the number one overall picks. The 1965 link has a slightly different address than the rest, and is the only one that goes to the correct place for me. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 01:25, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll fix that shortly, they changed around the precise coding for the address to get to the right page. Staxringold _talk^contribs 03:16, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There, that should be all done. Staxringold _talk^contribs 16:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Wrestlinglover

Will begin tomorrow after I finish the GA review I currently have to do.--WillC 10:00, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know alot about Baseball anymore since I haven't been apart of a team for 5 years and haven't watched in years either, but as far as I can tell this article is fine. Only problem I found was ref 12 is broken. I Support this list's nomination.--WillC 22:05, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support and note, fixed that! Staxringold _talk^contribs 00:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Mm40 (talk) 13:25, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Mm40 (talk)

Comments as promised from Mm40 (talk)

In the second paragraph, some numbers are spelled out while others aren't.
- They are done correctly per MOS:NUM. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:49, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There should be a ref after "if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year"; if the two before the comma verify this, move both of them to the end of the sentence.

This was actually the one sentence I was very worried about because I knew it to be true (so couldn't remove it) but could not find a source for it. Just did some Googling and found this, however, so fixed (and added to the Philadelphia Phillies list of this kind, the Mariners and Yankees lists doesn't have this sentence).

Are any players in the Hall of Fame, win the Rookie of the Year Award, make the All-Star team as a rookie, etc.?

No HoFers (though both Gooden and Straw would probably be there if not for drugs), but I was just thinking about adding this stuff when I read your comment below about more interesting image captions.

It would be nice if the captions were a bit less repetitious; if they're from a state uncommon in the list, played a different position from what they were drafted as (if that makes sense), anything else

I'll on this a bit.

How's that look now? Staxringold _talk^contribs 21:05, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest using File:Darryl Strawberry 2008-09-28.jpg instead of the current Strawberry picture as he's in a Mets' uniform and it's (IMO) higher quality.

Done.

You can make the table sortable by making multiple rows for years with multiple picks.

The table can't be sortable because of the colspans. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:50, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know, I meant getting rid of the colspans (as I did with the MVP list). Mm40 (talk) 20:27, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that's not what you said. That issue was raised and addressed at WP:Featured list candidates/List of Philadelphia Phillies first-round draft picks. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 20:39, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, makes sense; I need to learn how to communicate. Mm40 (talk) 20:45, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll support once these issues are resolved. Mm40 (talk) 18:23, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, the captions are much better. Good luck in the WikiCup! Mm40 (talk) 13:25, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Now that I'm not a temp director anymore, I can now offer more than strikes to my comments. I only had a couple of comments to begin with (resolved long ago), and I think the criteria are met here. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 02:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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