Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award


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BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
This is my fourth list for a BBC Sports Personality of the Year topic. I believe it now meets the criteria. Per this I think I am meant to mention I am participating in the WikiCup, but please note I started this topic before entering the competition. Thanks in advance for comments, Rambo's Revenge (talk)  00:32, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

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 * When Alex Ferguson won the award in 2001, the BBC described the award as "a new accolade" to be presented annually;[3] however, there had in fact been two previous recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award. - remove the word the before BBC, its not common to say the BBC.
 * Not done, that is the common way because it stands for "the British Broadcasting Corporation", infact see what it says on the first line of BBC.
 * Oh okay, I wasn't aware.-- TRU CO   503  01:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The inaguaral award went to Frank Bruno in 1996, following his retirement from boxing that year following medical advice. - 1)typo on inaugural 2)Reword the beginning to "The inaugural recipient of the award was ..." 3)repetitive use of following, for the last part how about "that year after he was given medical advice." -Done, Done and Done
 * Having been favourite to win the main award in 1995, but losing to Damon Hill,[5] the Lifetime Achievement Award was criticized by many for being a consolation award. - 1)add an "a" before favourite 2)Who is this statement referring to?
 * Done, reworded whole sentence but used "the favourite" not "a favourite" per wiktionary description of its use as a betting term. Rambo's Revenge (talk)  11:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Golfer Seve Ballesteros won the award the following year, and after that there was a three-year hiatus.  - 1)Comma after that 2)I suggest rewording the last part of the sentence to ", before there was a three-year hiatus." -Done
 * The award has been presented annually since football manager Ferguson ended the hiatus in 2001. - why not state that he is a football manager in his first mention? -Done
 * Five of the ten recipients have been associated with football, with tennis being the only other sport to be represented more that once.  - that --> "than" -Done
 * Six of the winners have been from the United Kingdom, with the other winners being from Brazil, former Czechoslovakia, Spain, and Sweden.  - unlink the countries, they are common geographical terms -Done
 * Table and references check out fine.-- TRU CO   503  00:46, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * All done, thanks for the comments. Rambo's Revenge (talk)  11:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - problems resolved to meet WP:WIAFL.-- TRU CO   503  01:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Comments from --  SRE.K.A.L. 24 [c] --  SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]] 00:47, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Couldn't you also tell the readers that Martina Navratilova is the only female to have won the award? -Done
 * All the images are images of people who are related to football. Just add a little more variety to it. -Done
 * (Many) more to come...

Comments from --  SRE.K.A.L. 24 [c] (continued)
 * "former Czechoslovakia" If you're saying "from", it should be "Czech Republic" because that was the country Navratilova was from in 2003. If you were saying "born", then the sentence will be fine. Either one is fine.
 * Done, went with the "born" option as it provides more background.
 * Why is the category Category:Sports halls of fame in the article?
 * Done, no idea when that got put there.
 * Good luck in promoting the topic.

--  SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]] 01:26, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, for the review and kind words. I believe I have addressed all your concerns. <b style="color:#E32636;">Rambo's Revenge</b> <b style="color:#FFA500;">(talk)</b>  13:36, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Support You're welcome. :D --  SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]] 20:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - passes all the criterion imo. Found nothing actionable to change. I would probable merge the "by sport" and "by nationality" sections into a "statistics", with the tables next to each other.Yobmod (talk) 10:01, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
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