Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Academy Award for Best Actor/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 SchroCat 14:35, 28 September 2014.

Academy Award for Best Actor

 * Nominator(s): Birdienest81 (talk) 20:58, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because SoapFan12 and I have worked on the list more than a year ago to comply with Featured list standards. I strongly believe that this list has a potential to become a featured list. I followed closely to how the Daytime Emmy Award acting list were formatted. Birdienest81 (talk) 20:58, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment - Matthew McConaughey is the most recent winner in this category for his role in Dallas Buyers Club. The sentence should be shifted to the end of the lead as we follow chronology to these kinds of lists. I have no other thing to say -- FrankBoy (Buzz) 18:37, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Done: I moved that sentence to the end of the paragraph.

Comments from Jimknut
Support — Looks good. Jimknut (talk) 00:14, 16 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Comments – I really like the list after reading through it. However, I do see one area that could be improved: the multiple wins and nominations lists, which are just bullet-point lists with minimal formatting. A simple two- or three-column table would look nicer in each case, in my view. Also, the See also section contains several links that are in one of the templates at the bottom of the page; they probably don't need to be duplicated and make the section long. Finally, the bibliography should probably be alphabetized, which won't take much work with only two books there. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 01:32, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Fixed: I have alphabetized the bibliography by author's surname and eliminated duplicated Oscar links. Regarding the multiple winners and nominees section, however, I'm not sure what to do. I attempted to do a similar table as the one featured here, but other Wikipedians complained that it was too long. How can I fix the problem?
 * --Birdienest81 (talk) 21:47, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * You could change the emphasis of the latter grouping to be about actors with the most noms, and pick a minimum number of noms required for inclusion that will help control the size. If you limit a table to actors with at least four or five noms, the table's size should be much more managable than if you try to put all of the actors currently listed in a table. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 01:05, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Done: I merged the multiple awards/nominations into one section. For the nominations, I put the limit to four to avoid a long column. Thanks for your help!
 * --Birdienest81 (talk) 07:37, 16 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Another great list, good job. Cowlibob (talk) 19:06, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - List looks great !  Neonblak talk  -  07:01, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: Nice to see a different type of great list for a change.--Jagarin 21:55, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: Excellent work!! Just one minor point: For the images of the actors on the right, I see some of the captions are accompanied by the year(s) in which they won, while some are not. For example, it doesn't state the years in which Sean Penn and Daniel Day Lewis won. I suggest the years are mentioned for all of them. -- KRIMUK  90  ✉  11:17, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Done: Added missing years in the thumbnail captions to Brando, Hoffman, Brody, Penn, and Day-Lewis.
 * --Birdienest81 (talk) 22:54, 21 September 2014 (UTC)


 * – SchroCat (talk) 14:51, 28 September 2014 (UTC)


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