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Denzel Washington on screen and stage[edit]

Featured list candidates/Denzel Washington on screen and stage/archive1

Nominator(s): Cowlibob (talk) 16:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Denzel Washington is an actor best known for playing a doctor in the television series St. Elsewhere, and his film collaborations with Spike Lee, and Tony Scott. He has won the most competitive acting Oscars of any African American winning for Glory (1989), and Training Day (2001). Washington has also built a strong stage career which culminated in him winning a Tony Award for Fences (2010). This list covers his entire acting career and as always I look forward to all the helpful comments on how to improve it. Cowlibob (talk) 16:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Seattle (talk) 17:34, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

In 1982, Washington made his first appearance as Dr. Philip Chandler sentence implies he play Chandler again.

The role proved to be the breakthrough in his career. what does this mean, exactly? Can you provide a direct quote here?

playing Trip, former slave-turned-soldier can you add an "a" after "Trip,"?

The lead gets a bit repetitive after a while, especially the final paragraph; can you cut out some unimportant detail?

for playing wrongly convicted boxer Rubin Carter wrongly convicted → wrongly-convicted

"Year" column in the "Television" section should be "Year(s)"; same with "Role"

MOS:SLASH recommends against use of slash; can you replace with "and"?

"Stage" "Year" column should be "Year(s)". Seattle (talk) 03:25, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Seattle: Thanks for the review. I think I've sorted most of this. I've wikilinked breakthrough to make it clear basically St. Elsewhere is what launched his acting career and where he first got recognition. Tried to cut down the detail, he's had a near forty year career so it's hard to remove roles as he's noted for many films. For the multiple roles in television I've added breaks to separate them. Hope that's ok. Cowlibob (talk) 05:25, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 10:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from FrB.TG

"Two years later" spotted five times. Can one/some of these be replaced with something else to avoid repetition.
"In 1993, he starred in the Kenneth Branagh's adaptation" - I don't know why is "the" there.
"In 1999, Washington won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama,[10] and his second Silver Bear for Best Actor[9] for playing wrongly-convicted boxer Rubin Carter in the biographical film The Hurricane.[11]" - Can you shift the ref. 9 to the very end of the sentence?
The table has much space to add directors' names, no? I think this info. can be added.
Can you remove the width size from the third table (section "Stage") and let it adjust automatically as the empty space in "Year(s)" and "Ref." look so weird. -- FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 19:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: Thanks for the review. I think I've sorted these. I prefer to highlight the important collaborations in the lead rather than have a separate column. Cowlibob (talk) 01:19, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is any harm to have a separate column for the directors, and the table has the space. I am just asking it for the ease of readers in case they want to know the names of the directors rather than going to those pages and looking at the names. -- FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 15:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: Added director column. Cowlibob (talk) 06:00, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support — FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 10:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Very informative and well oranized

--Birdienest81 (talk) 00:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Littlecarmen (talk) 12:32, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Littlecarmen

By virtue of his win, he became the first African American actor to win two competitive Oscars, and the first since Sidney Poitier in 1964 to win the leading actor Oscar.[15][16] Oscar(s) -> Academy Award(s)
For his portrayal of an alcoholic airline pilot in Flight (2012),[21] he garnered a nomination for the Best Actor Oscar.[22] Don't use Oscar.
He seems to have played two roles in one of the Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child episodes he was in, but he isn't clear, which. Maybe put those two roles in the same line or use rowspan to and separate the two episodes.
Only link publications and publishers the first time you use them in references. Littlecarmen (talk) 12:17, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Littlecarmen: Since the editor is unavailable at the moment, I have addressed your first three comments. As for the last one, there are absolutely no problems with repeating the links in references, and like I said before it can indeed be useful as we don't know which one is going to be clicked first. -- FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 18:51, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Littlecarmen: Thanks FrB.TG for taking care of these when I was gone. In relation to overlinking it doesn't apply to references and could be useful as we don't which ref would be viewed by the reader first. I believe SchroCat said it was ok in a previous nomination. Cowlibob (talk) 11:24, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are areas of a page which are exempt from OVERLINKING, one of which is the reference section. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 11:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support Littlecarmen (talk) 12:32, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:41, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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