Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day starting pitchers


 * 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 User:Matthewedwards 00:56, 17 December 2008.

List of Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day starting pitchers
I believe this meets the Featured List criteria, similar to other featured lists of this type, such as List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Opening Day starting pitchers and List of Kansas City Royals Opening Day starting pitchers. Rlendog (talk) 03:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Support - my issues were resolved to meet WP:WIAFL.--SRX 21:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments
 * Sources looks good, checked with the Checklinks tool. Canniba  loki  00:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Support I did make some fixes, but this is another very good baseball list that meets all criteria. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:47, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:48, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Support Good luck with all the other "List of (MLB team) Opening Day starting pitchers" articles. If you look here, you can easily see which of those articles need to be written. --  SRE.K.A nnoyomous .L. 24 [c] 22:43, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment
 * I just want to know, why was the article split into the Brooklyn side, and the Los Angeles side? --  SRE.K.A nnoyomous .L. 24 [c] 04:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * There are a number of reasons why I felt it would be better to split the list. Dodger history goes a long way back, and a list with over 100 years can be unwieldy.  The move to LA took place pretty much in the middle of Dodger history, and thus was a natural breakpoint.  It also works well for this particular list, since none of the pitchers who made an Opening Day start in Brooklyn made an Opening Day start in LA (I made a similar break for the Giants; there the break is not quite as clean, as one picther who made several Opening Day starts in NY also made one in SF).  Another reason was more practical.  There is a lot more information available for the last 50 years than earlier.  In particular, while information as to how the team did on Opening Day is available at least back to 1900, information about individual pitchers' decisions in those starts is less readily available.  Thus lists like List of Boston Red Sox Opening Day starting pitchers have had to use the team result for the decision, rather than the pitcher's decision (admittedly, going back in history the starting pitcher almost always got the decision).  I had to make that compromise for the Brooklyn Dodgers list, but not the LA Dodgers list.  Rlendog (talk) 21:07, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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