Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Toronto Maple Leafs/archive1

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 01:59, 24 July 2007.

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Toronto Maple Leafs

• Maybe - This article should be of Featured status. The Leafs are one of the NHL's, and maybe one of the world's most storied franchises. There is a huge fan base not only in real life, but on the web too. There are tons of Leaf fansites all over the Internet. So this should certainly be a Featured Article, along with the other Original Six NHL teams. It may need some more work, like the intro, but soon it can be a FA Ebuz610 18:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - Two images need fair-use rationales (and each is used in multiple articles, requiring a rationale for each use) - Image:Mahovolich4Kelly8.jpg and Image:LeafCaptainSittler.jpg. (ESkog)^(Talk) 18:48, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - This article needs a lot of work before it gets to FA status. The lead needs expanding and cleaning up (see WP:LEAD), there are entire sections without references, the references are uniform, there aren't nearly enough references for a team with this much history, the article isn't nearly in depth enough, overall needs a thorough copyedit. Please consult New Jersey Devils for the standards of an NHL team article which you might follow before proposing this article in the future, and then expand even further on that because, as you say, this is a quite storied franchise. By your own standards, you have a lot of work to do. At the moment, this is questionably a quick remove.
• Delist. I bleed blue, but this article in no way meets the featured article criteria. The lead is too short, the history is too long (and suffers from recentism), the writing is poor, the references are severely lacking, the franchise records section seems to picked at random.-Wafulz 16:15, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I'll just offer suggestions, rather than piling on. Look at the New Jersey Devils article, and use it is a template. Given the Leafs history, the move by another user to pull the full history into a child article is good, but the main article will require a decent overview of the Leafs history as well. The recent history needs to be reduced. Much of it can be moved into 2006-07 Toronto Maple Leafs season and 2007-08 Toronto Maple Leafs season. It needs citations, a lot of them. It also needs pictures. Check the player articles for good pictures of players in a Leafs jersey. It will take some work, but I have no doubt that editors can get this to FA level. Once it is rewritten, I would probably suggest a peer review before a second FA nomination, just to get a better gauge of what touch-up work will need to be done. Resolute 21:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

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.