Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year/archive1


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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 21:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC).

Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year

 * Nominator(s): Harrias  talk, The Rambling Man (talk) 12:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Based off the other similar lists here, I present Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year for your perusal. Harrias talk 12:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: Amusingly, despite the fact that I just edited it, I completely forgot that I already had Featured list candidates/England cricket team Test results (1946–1959)/archive1 open, and so shouldn't have initiated this. Got myself tangled up while trying to tidy myself back up! Harrias  talk 12:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's okay, between us I think we can handle any comments. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:16, 19 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Comments from magiciandude
 * "formerly known as the Alternative Sportsperson of the Year" comma after "year"
 * Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:03, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * "The awards are considered highly prestigious and are frequently referred to as the sporting equivalent of "Oscars"." Please specify who. I assume its sports journalists and if so, just mention that.
 * No, it's more general than that. Of the three references I used to cite that claim, one was CNN (not specifically "sports journalism"), one was the IAAF (so the definitive global body for athletics, not journalists at all) and one was a sports writer in Die Welt, so it's more across the board, so coming up with a specific statement to cover that would be too clunky.  That's why I used the "frequently referred to" styling.  The Rambling Man (talk) 19:03, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The disambiguations and external links checker came out clean.
 * Thanks for checking. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:03, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

That's all I got for now. Great job you two! And if either of you have the time, would you care to comment on my FLC for Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award? Erick (talk) 15:26, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks for your comments, I've responded inline above. I'll add your review request to my queue of jobs!  The Rambling Man (talk) 19:03, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok, that makes sense. Not really much to say except the list is looking great and I wish you both good luck on this FLC. I now support this article. Erick (talk) 10:28, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Support – Honestly got nothing. Great job to the both of you! BeatlesLedTV (talk) 21:26, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Support The pair of you have forged one fine list here. Now eagerly awaiting the remaining three lists! MWright96 (talk) 20:47, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Support Comments from JennyOz

Hi TRM and Harrias, HNY!

Infobox
 * awarded for - quote marks and ref per other Laureus FLs

Prose
 * ...formerly known as the Alternative Sportsperson of the Year,..." - could replace "formerly" with 'prior to 2007'
 * "The Laureus World Sports Academy then select the individual winner..." - selects?
 * "It has been award posthumously..." - awarded
 * "...while surfers have been recognised most often..." - insert 'of any sport' after often?
 * "...and Stephanie Gilmore (2009),..." - 2010

Table
 * 2002 ref 13 - better (more timely and in English) refs this or this?
 * 2005 Ellen MacArthur - dab Sailing to Sailing (sport)
 * 2005 Mike Horn - swap ZAF to RSA (per 2001)
 * 2007 Kevin Pritchard - wlink is not same bloke? At Windsurfing he doesn't even have redlink. See here for Kevin bio, no mention of basketball.
 * 2011 - winner Sherwood? Is the NZ Herald in error saying Sherwood won one? It and other Kiwis got carried away? This says Slater. Current Ref 22 xgames.espn says 2012 was Slater's 4th ie 07, 09 and last year (2011). This and this say Slater. and this and this and photo of Slater holding statuette. Laureus World Sports Awards winners by year still has Slater.
 * 2011 Sherwood - dab his sport wlink to Freestyle Motocross?
 * NB If 2011 was Slater, will need to:
 * change template and
 * remove template and category from Sherwood article.
 * and in lede, this sentence "Americans are the most successful with seven awards, while surfers have been recognised most often with five awards." - will need to change to eight awards for US and six for surfing
 * Maybe mention Slater in lede prose as the only multiple winner with four action wins?
 * 2014 Mick Fanning - is an Aussie pls!
 * 2015 Sage Kotsenburg - skateboarding should be snowboarding
 * 2015 Gabriel Medina - is Brazilian
 * 2016 Mick Fanning - is an Aussie pls!
 * 2017 Pedro Barros - not the priest, dab to Pedro Barros (skateboarder)
 * 2017 Tyler Wright - dab to Tyler Wright (surfer)

Refs - all live

Template
 * 2011 - Slater as above?
 * 2016 - should be Jan Frodeno

That's me for now. Best wishes, JennyOz (talk) 05:30, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Jenny, thanks for all the comments, I believe I've addressed them all, but you know me....!! The Rambling Man (talk) 07:39, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Fantastic TRM! just one little problem...


 * Infobox - we can't use that new NZ Herald ref to cite the "awarded for" bit - that news article replicates (in same sentence, no less) NZH's previous error that Sherwood won in 2011. How about this or Laureus itself or this? JennyOz (talk) 09:40, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * done, just used the Laureus official site. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:42, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Perfect! Very happy to sign my support! JennyOz (talk) 10:04, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

, hi guys, any chance of a source review and then closing this nom out? Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Source review passed (with a small tweak), promoting. -- Pres N  21:01, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


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