Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Yankees captains/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 Giants2008 23:22, 27 February 2012.

List of New York Yankees captains

 * Nominator(s): – Muboshgu (talk) 03:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

My last FLC has three supports, so here is my next one. I have a question about how to present the officially recognized vs. unofficially recognized captains in the table, though, and I'm looking forward to that feedback. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Comments: — Parutakupiu (talk) 02:25, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You should not apply boldface in the first sentence, as per WP:BOLDTITLE.
 * Is "This is a comprehensive list of these captains." entirely necessary? Isn't it the primary purpose of the list?
 * Apart from the first sentence, the remainder of the lede's first paragraph comprises a definition of what a baseball captain and an historical perspective of his function. It would sound great in Captain (baseball), but not that much (at least as detailed) in this specific list.
 * 'Yankee captains' or 'Yankees captains'?
 * It would be interesting to add a history section (short or not – up to you) explaining how the different captains came to be.
 * Do not define specific column widths to the table, it leaves a lot of unaesthetic blank space.


 * Comment – My major concern with this list on my favorite baseball team is whether it passes criterion 3b. The last time I remember a captains list at the FL process, it was delisted for failing 3b. That had a parent list (not multiple lists), but the number of entries in the table was very similar to this list (14 here, 12 plus one entry signifying the lack of a captain there). I want to gauge the community's reaction on 3b before reviewing further. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 23:12, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Oppose - In my opinion this fails 3b, the information could easily be included in either a players list or the main article (which is what happened to the list that Giants highlighted). NapHit (talk) 22:54, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Comment I'm not sure it'd survive 3b either. There exists New York Yankees all-time roster which could be enhanced to include this kind of information. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, forgot to put this page on my watchlist. I will address the above comments. First though, I feel this page meets the 3b guideline, as a notable role receiving a great deal of press attention. Another similar list, List of Boston Red Sox captains, passed FLC (granted that nomination was years ago). – Muboshgu (talk) 21:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It's been a few weeks since the last comment here, and I've done some work to the page. I want to see if people still feel this may not meet 3b. I feel it does, and does not benefit from being merged to a different page. But, if there isn't going to be consensus to pass this as a FL down the road, then this should close so that I can nominate another list. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:05, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.