Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/IAAF Road Race Label Events/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:Giants2008 21:29, 9 March 2014.

IAAF Road Race Label Events

 * Nominator(s):  Harrias  talk 16:45, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

A bit out of my normal area of editing, this one. Was a tidy little list to start with, but I updated it for 2014, made the tables accessible and fixed the sorting. I removed a list of criteria and wrote it into the prose for the lead, although I'm still a little concerned about the flow of that bit. As always, let me know your thoughts and suggestions.  Harrias  talk 16:45, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The Beirut Marathon is listed as a 20 km race. This is either a typo, or unusual enough to need a separate source. Courcelles 18:27, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You're right it shouldn't have been 20 km, not sure why that was like that.  Harrias  talk 18:35, 8 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment Looks like there's some double rounding in the list of distances: in metric a marathon is a fraction under 42,195m. Since a marathon is defined as 26 miles 385 yards, it may be better to state this directly instead of using a decimalised figure.
 * Is data available giving the year in which each event first attained label status? Are there any former label events? Is the performance of athletes tracked across these events, and do we know who has won the most?
 * Could do with a couple of images from races in the list to meet 5b more fully. Oldelpaso (talk) 17:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Comments The Rambling Man (talk) 12:30, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Image caption doesn't need a full stop.
 * "as being one of the" not sure about "one of" here. There are multiple races...
 * "other. Within the "other" " should the first other be "other"?
 * "three years in a row " three consecutive years would be a bit tighter.
 * "for another three years" a "further" three years I thiknk.
 * I would force sorting distance so it's in actual distance order rather than alphanumerical order, i.e. 10 miles should sort after 10 and 12 km.
 * Any reason why some locations are in English (Prague) and others not (Venezia)?


 * Comment: (having stumbled here from my FLC discussion page). A few recommendations to improve the page: (1) Redlinks are totally okay for Featured Quality content pages, however, in the Key section might be helpful for the reader for 10 miles (road running) and 12 kilometres (road running) to exist at least as Wikipedia stub articles with a couple sources each. (2) Last paragraph of the lede is a little skimpy as a two-sentence-long-paragraph, might be nice to see it either merged, or expanded. (3) I'm not seeing where the References are cited for the Races subsection. (4) Please consider using Portal bar to add some portals either to the bottom of the article, or just add a few to the See also section. (5) I made a minor formatting change to the References section, per WP:LAYOUT. That's it for now, keep me posted, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:21, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you to all those who have posted comments and suggestions. Unfortunately, I am currently tied up with life off-wiki, and won't be able to commit much time to the encyclopedia, so for the moment I will regretfully have to withdraw this nomination.  Harrias  talk 21:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)


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