Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Major League Baseball hitters with four home runs in one game/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 The Rambling Man 07:46, 15 September 2010.

List of Major League Baseball hitters with four home runs in one game

 * Nominator(s): Staxringold talkcontribs 04:19, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

All fixed up for a nice off-the-beaten-path baseball list. I have a couple questions for you guys: Staxringold talkcontribs 04:19, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1. The name. Would you prefer something like List of Major League Baseball players to hit four home runs in one game? If nothing else List of MLB players follows the standard of many other lists (rather than "hitters". A pitcher could technically do it anyways).
 * 2. Should a ref to the box score for the game be included where available (box score archives exist for about 60% of these)?


 * Jeez, feels like just yesterday I found this page and gave it a wikitable. Here you went and fixed it up properly.  (1) Yes, (2) Yes. --Muboshgu (talk) 04:24, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Haha, I hadn't even noticed! Feel free to add your name to the list as you did a lot of the technical work on the table, obviously. I'll wait on more responses before making the changes. Staxringold talkcontribs 04:33, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I was wondering if you were stalking my contributions page. :P Looks like you did a good job, I'll take a closer look though. --Muboshgu (talk) 04:58, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment—no dab links, no dead external links. I like the current title better than the one you propose above. Ucucha 11:21, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments from KV5
 * Like the current title as well.
 * Superscript daggers.
 * Done. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Any reason for a fixed table width? I don't think an unfixed width would be an issue here, and the three entries that are broken over two lines on my monitor would be solved.
 * Originally I copied the ref column with a set width and if one column has a set width it auto sets the table to 100% (at least on my screen) unless you define the table size. I'll leave it totally unfixed. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Is it worth marking losses in the table, since you mention it in the lead?
 * Thought about doing this, I'll do it with red. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * "Mark Whiten for example," - comma after Whiten
 * Done. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * "four homer game" - four-homer becomes a compound adjective here.
 * Done. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Remove "ALL CAPS" in reference in favor of title case per MOS. &mdash; KV5  •  Talk  •  22:14, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Support &mdash; KV5  •  Talk  •  12:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Support No need to break convention on the sorting. Courcelles 17:58, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Support my retentive issues resolved. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments –
 * "Four home runs generate significant offense which generally allow a team to win". "s" needed at end of "allow".
 * Italics needed for publisher of reference 3 (NYT).  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 22:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done and done. Staxringold talkcontribs 23:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Support what a great list. Dincher (talk) 00:11, 15 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Support. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 01:46, 15 September 2010 (UTC)


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