Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Calgary Flames draft picks/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:Scorpion0422 20:37, 2 September 2008.

List of Calgary Flames draft picks
Nominating as I believe this meets the criteria. All feedback will, of course, be responded to. Resolute 23:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Haven't looked properly, but heck "Stats are complete"—no, "The statistics are complete" ... more formal register, please. Tony  (talk)  14:17, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments The Rambling Man (talk) 16:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * "This is is a list of draft picks by the Calgary Flames..." zzz - please start the list with some more imagination - featured articles don't start with "This is an article about..." so featured lists shouldn't either.
 * "came into existence" -really? This could be reworded in my opinion, discussing a brief history of the franchise and its various locations, ending with the move to Calgary.
 * "For the first eight years of the franchise's history" - is this before or after it moved to Calgary?
 * I guess "The 2008 draft was the 29th in which Calgary participated, where they selected seven players, including first round pick Greg Nemisz." would make more sense toward the end of the lead rather than the end of the opening paragraph.
 * A (very) brief description of how the NHL draft works would be of great use to non-experts reading this.
 * "was also drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays and chose a career in Major League Baseball over the NHL.[2]" - emphasise that Blue Jays are a Major League Baseball team.
 * Fix Tony's "stat" issue.
 * "Goaltender stats are listed in the form of wins–losses–ties for goaltenders who played prior to the 2005–06 NHL season, and wins–losses–ties–shootout losses for goaltenders who played after." - I guess there's a good explanation for this so include it as a referenced footnote.
 * "year they hosted the draft." - is there a reference for this? Does the draft location move from year to year?  Again, that could be part of the explanation you could add - as a matter of interest, some of the NFL draft lists include information regarding the technicalities of the draft - perhaps use one of those as inspiration?
 * Why is Penalty Minutes abbreviated to PIM and not PM?
 * Seems a shame to have so many separate table with the see also's when you could incorporate all the information into one table.
 * Several abbreviations seem to lack explanation, such as Ret-#2, STL, CGY, USHS, GAA etc.
 * Does the colour coding indicate anything that the P column doesn't already tell you?
 * I'd prefer to see column widths the same from table to table if you insist on keeping each year's draft in a separate table.
 * Some players have no position, at least one has no nationality - don't leave blank cells, explain why they're unknown (or whatever).
 * Is it clear somewhere that all these statistics are for the NHL entirely rather than just for Calgary Flames appearances?
 * What's a supplemental draft?
 * The notes need references.
 * A lot of very good suggestions that I will look to address in the next couple days. As a quick note - PIM is the standard abbreviation used by the NHL, and stands for "Penalties in Minutes."  "Ret" and GAA are linked in the table.  I'll link the other abbreviations. Resolute 01:35, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments
 * Your player stats reference needs a last access date. (Picky, I know...)
 * Otherwise sources look okay. Links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:10, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

I am going to withdraw this nomination for the time being. I have some ideas on how to change this, which will probably leave the article in a considerably different format when done. No sense carrying on with this nom for the time being. Resolute 23:26, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
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