Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award/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 Geraldk 20:29, 21 October 2009.

Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award

 * Nominator(s): KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 12:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because after its recent expansion, it meets all of the criteria. I know that there is no lead image; I have not found a picture of the trophy itself, which would be appropriate, and do not want to highlight one winner more than another by adding a second picture in addition to the ones already in the table. Mark McGwire doesn't have an image, so he's currently the only recipient without one. All concerns to be addressed as quickly and efficiently as possible. Cheers! KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 12:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments Support Looks great! Small thing, shouldn't the default order of the table be by the presentation year? Staxringold talkcontribs 16:44, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Traditionally, it's sorted by the first column, which in this case is the name. I chose that way because the presentation isn't time-dependent (it's not an annual award, a monthly award, etc.). Since the table is sortable, it's really easy to do either one quite quickly. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:49, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Meh, your reasoning makes sense, it really isn't a year-by-year award so I guess that sorting wouldn't make as much sense. I'll give this a better going-over later, looks good though. Mind looking at Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award and letting me know what you think of the formatting (on my talk page, this isn't the place. :) ). Thanks! Staxringold talkcontribs 17:19, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Support Looks good. I'm okay with ordering it by name, as it's not a yearly award.  I find it odd WP doesn't have a fair use picture of McGwire though.  I'll also check out the Comeback POY page, and just so you know, I just finished DHL Delivery Man Award and nominated it for FLC. --Muboshgu (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) Try to get this image released as cc-by-sa or cc-by
 * 2) *A better picture of the award is shown in one of the references. I don't believe that the time and effort that is involved in trying to get an unwilling photographer to release their work to the world is necessary for a picture that's low quality and doesn't truly show the award. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 14:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) **I contacted the author and got the image released as cc-by-sa. Please upload http://www.flickr.com/photos/allthegoodnamesweretaken/744407380/ to commons and add it to the list.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 08:28, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) *** What does it add? This picture isn't of any encyclopedic value to this list because of the coloration; the whole photo is underexposed. I don't even know if I can make anything of it with Photoshop. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 11:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 5) ***I'm still not sold on the encyclopedic value, but I think I've managed to do at least something with it, though I think finding an image of Mark McGwire would be more beneficial to this list. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 12:09, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 6) Arrange according to year and not name, I know it's not a yearly award, still arranging according to year makes more sense, because the award is presented chronologically to recent achievements of the persons. Arranging according to name isn't, imo, beneficial at all. Please make the first column the year and arrange according to it. --Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 06:15, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 7) *I've expressed my views on this above. In addition to the reasons I gave, there is no way to get this in true chronological order because, in some cases, it's not known on what date the trophy was presented. That means that sorting by year initially is impractical because it could be flat wrong on the chronological order. The functionality is provided, but it's better to be safe than to inadvertently put factual errors in featured content. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 14:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 8) Expand the info about the trophy, its value, size, designer ...etc.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 06:15, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 9) *Obviously I've written lists about trophies and awards before. Obviously, that's information I've looked for. Besides the fact that it's designed by Tiffany, which I've included, the info is unavailable. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 14:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 10) **I don't see why that should be obvious at all. I don't know your history of contribution and even if I did it's a simple suggestion that needs an answer. A simple "The info isn't available" would suffice.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 16:11, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Comment – "2001 saw the most awards presented in a year: Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn". What comes after the colon presents a sharp break from the rest of the sentence; I would rather see a number after it. This would also make it clearer that there were more winners than 1998. Also, try not to start the sentence with a year. The rest looks pretty clean.  Giants2008  ( 17–14 ) 19:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I got it all in one fell swoop. Let me know what you think of the new wording. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 20:21, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support – That did the trick. As I said above, the rest was already clean.  Giants2008  ( 17–14 ) 19:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:27, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:20, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Small comment Could the lead sentence on Barry Bonds be reworded? "Barry Bonds became the third player honored with the award for breaking the single-season home run record in 2002" sounds like he broke the record in 02, not that he received the award then. Maybe something like "Barry Bonds (2002) became the third player honored" or "Barry Bonds was presented with the award in 2002, the third player honored..." Staxringold talkcontribs 15:58, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done and done. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:04, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Geraldk (talk) 20:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
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