Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Florida Marlins team records/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 Giants2008 21:11, 9 September 2011.

List of Florida Marlins team records

 * Nominator(s): Albacore (talk) 18:26, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because... it's the next article in the series. However, I have two major issues with this list that I would appreciate some input on. First (the more fixable of the two), the third paragraph of the lead is really weak, but I can't find anything else to add to it. Next, more problematic, is the fact that the Marlins season team records page doesn't list any team season records outside miscellaneous records, as opposed to, say, the Mariners team season records, which lists stats, not miscellaneous records. So, should I add the misc. records or not? On a related note "Individual single-game records" was changed to "team single-game records" due to a lack of single-game records. Albacore (talk) 18:26, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Support great work, well done NapHit (talk) 22:35, 27 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment / Slight oppose Support First big thing, this may be the style so far for these lists but I hate the repeated use of "the holder" or "the holder of" in the image captions. First off it's massively passive voice, and second it just sounds awkward. Why, eg, "Josh Johnson, the holder of two career records for the Marlins" and not "Josh Johnson holds two career records for the Marlins". "Dan Uggla is tied for the Marlins' single-season extra base hits record" as opposed to "Dan Uggla, the co-holder of the single-season extra-base hits record", etc. Staxringold talkcontribs 14:46, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Albacore (talk) 12:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * And looking at that Uggla entry... Why are tied-records listed twice (ie, Shutouts and Shutouts, XBH and XBH)? Why not simply span the record title across 2 rows? Staxringold talkcontribs 14:48, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Not done per ACCESS concerns specified in this comment. Albacore (talk) 12:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * 1) Huge amount of white space between end of tables and images. I think setting it to 80-85% would be better.  Pumpkin Sky   talk  20:14, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Taken care of. Albacore (talk) 21:24, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * For some reason 80% jacked up the layout on my screen, which is a standard screen, though 80% works on other lists, so I changed it to 76%.


 * 1) Why is "baseball-reference.com." lower case but "Marlins.MLB.com" and "Retrosheet" upper case?  Pumpkin Sky   talk  23:17, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Decapped retrosheet; changed to MLB.com Albacore (talk) 23:39, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support now. Pumpkin Sky   talk  02:08, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Comment: I'm a bit iffy on why the tables are so wide. For the most part they could be thinned out, since there's not a huge amount of info in any columns. If it's to maintain consistency with other lists in this topic then I won't worry about it, but it did throw me off. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 16:39, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Not to maintain consistency; only changed List of Oakland Athletics team records. I'd like to hear what PumpkinSky has to say on this one. Albacore (talk) 18:01, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Because before there was about a 3" white gutter between the tables and the photos--a huge waste of white space, it also makes for more scrolling as it forces the page to be longer. Not mention that much white space is hugely unattractive. They don't seem any wider than other list tables to me. Pumpkin Sky  talk  18:08, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Support. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 18:09, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
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