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Radio Times's Most Powerful People

Featured list candidates/Radio Times's Most Powerful People/archive1

Nominator(s): A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 00:22, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Radio Times's Most Powerful People was a series of listings created by Radio Times from January 2003 to June 2005. I have been working on this list for a while now, and I believe that it meets the FL criteria. I welcome any and all feedback. Thanks, A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 00:22, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

In the first sentence of the TV comedy section, comedy randomly has a capital letter when it doesn't anywhere else

Done A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gervais, Norton, Lucas and Walliams are not linked in the prose in this section at all. I realise they were all linked in the lead, but standard practice is to link again on the first usage in the body.

Done A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Risque is usually spelt with an acute accent on the e.

Done A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

TV drama section starts with "Following the success..." - this may be pedantic, but is there any evidence that the previous polls were a success? On what basis were they a success?

✓ Rewritten A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"As of May 2010, Ross keeps" - I would change "keeps" to "kept" giving that May 2010 was nearly nine years ago.

Done A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why is no station listed for Chris Evans? As far as I can see from his article, he was broadcasting on Radio 2 at that point.

Simply because that's what the sources did ([2] [3]). I'm willing to change this if it's an issue. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Think that's it from me.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:11, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review, Chris! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 20:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough on the last point. Maybe you could add a footnote saying something like "the poll did not identify Evans with a specific station" or something like (better-worded than) that, just because it looks a bit jarring to have it missing for one person....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:35, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 17:11, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one, now happy to support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:18, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Chris! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 18:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Aoba47

For this part (Following the publication of the Most Powerful People in TV Comedy polls, in July 2004 Radio Times), I believe there should be another comma after “2004”.

✓ Rewritten A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 18:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For this part (was the highest new entry and the highest-placed female), I would say “woman” instead of “female”. Something about using “female” as a noun always seems off to me, but it could be a cultural/American v.s. British thing.

Done A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 18:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any information on why the Radio Times stopped doing these listings?

None that I can find, unfortunately. They were never exactly a massive deal; I suspect that they were simply quietly retired. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 18:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That is what I thought, but thank you for clarifying this for me. Aoba47 (talk) 19:31, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great work with this. Once my comments are addressed, I will support this for promotion. Aoba47 (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the review! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 18:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for addressing everything. I support this for promotion. Aoba47 (talk) 19:31, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the support! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 21:16, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments – Just a couple thoughts from me:

TV comedy: "The list was first published in January 2003, and was topped by Ricky Gervais. Gervais...". Try not to have the name repeat from the end of one sentence to the beginning of another like this, as it's not optimal prose.

Done Replaced with "The comedian".

Radio: I see "forty" and "70" in close proximity, and a "40" later in the section. A particular style of spelling out the numbers or not should be chosen here. Since other numbers seem to be given in numeral form throughout the article, I'd change the "forty" into number form. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:19, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done

Thank you for the review, Giants! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 21:22, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support – My couple of nit-picks have been addressed and I don't see any further issues. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:12, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Giants! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 16:10, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed; promoting. --Pres N 18:21, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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