Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Doctor Who (series 4)/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 not promoted by User:The Rambling Man 16:01, 11 September 2008.

Doctor Who (series 4)
After two false starts to the FLC, I am now confident enough that it passes the featured list criteria. I am deciding to submit as a list as I feel it is more of a list than an article; it is more evocative of Lost (season 4) (an influence) than Smallville (season 1). Although the Christmas special has not yet been named, I do not think this should cause opposition: I employ a two-out-of-three rule when creating episode pages and episode sections on lists: if a television episode has two sourced aspects of: a title, an airdate, and a plot summary; I will include it. Removal would compromise the comprehensiveness of the article. See List of Desperate Housewives episodes for a comparison with a featured list. The list itself needs no changes beyond small improvement, apart from updating the title when announced and including the AI and viewing figures when release. Sceptre (talk) 18:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments
 * What makes the following sources reliable?
 * http://www.fearnet.com/Default.aspx
 * Current ref 19 (New series trailer) is lacking a last access date.
 * Otherwise sources look okay. Links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:32, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Replaced with a statement about a trailer being premiered at Comic-Con. Sceptre (talk) 14:33, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

The nominator has been blocked indefinitely. Don't know whether it's worth withdrawing this for the time being. D.M.N. (talk) 16:12, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sceptre asked if I would be willing to address any concerns, so we can keep it open for the time being. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk  ) 17:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to keep the nomination live as long as comments are addressed in a timely fashion. Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:52, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I will also help address concerns. – thedemonhog   talk  •  edits  05:00, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Comments That's all I have. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 07:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Should indicate it's a television series in the opening sentence, not just a series
 * "a regular series of thirteen episodes was aired"
 * Could it say which channel the series aired on?
 * Can we attempt to counter the Systemic bias, and provide a worldwide view, by stating which networks the series appeared on in other countries, especially those such as US, Canada, Aus and NZ?
 * "Doctor Who had been was recommissioned"
 * "The tenth production block — consisting of the 2008 Christmas special and the BBC Proms "cutaway" scene "Music of the Spheres" — completed recording on 3 May." Per WP:DASH, em-dashes shouldn't be spaced, but spaced en-dashes can be used instead.
 * The table for the production block could be removed, with an extra "Block" column added to the main episode table. What's the point in repeating five columns' worth of information?
 * Some dates are linked, while others aren't.
 * The casting section is a distracting sea of blue links. Consider unlinking the episode titles, since they're linked in the episode table anyway
 * Expand "Code" to "Production code" in the episode table
 * Unlink character names in the episode summaries, and remove actors names, as it's all repetition of the Cast section
 * citation is being used in conjunction with cite web, cite video and cite news. WP:CITET says only one version (citation or ) should be used because of the different markup.
 * I'm not a wiz with image use, but the DVD image seems to fail WP:NFCC, since it doesn't illustrate what it says it does (ie, a DVD cover, but no mention of the DVD in the article). But as I said, I'm not very knowledgeable on images and fair-use stuff.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.