Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of current National Football League head coaches/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:Matthewedwards 08:01, 17 January 2009.

List of current National Football League head coaches
I feel that it is at FL quality -- Mr.crabby   (Talk)   03:12, 2 January 2009 (UTC) Fails criteria 1, 5, and 7, and possibly 2, since I don't believe that the lead is long enough for a list of this type. I would prefer 1 more introductory paragraph of information speaking about the history of coaching in the league.
 * Oppose from Killervogel5
 * "Their are currently 27 head coaches in the National Football League, while seven teams currently have a vacancy at that position."
 * "Their"→"there"
 * There are 32 teams in the league, so there cannot be 34 head coaches (27+7).
 * 27 (which should be 25) and 7 are comparative numbers, so twenty-five should be written out.
 * Add (NFL) after National Football League to explicitly define what the abbreviation means.


 * Separate winning percentage out from the record column so that the table can be sorted by that statistic (since you refer to it in the lead).
 * "Four head coaches: Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, and Lovie Smith, have won the AP Coach of the Year Award for coaching their current team."→"Four head coaches (Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, and Lovie Smith) have won the AP Coach of the Year Award for coaching their current team."
 * "Other current coaches that have led their team to a Super Bowl victory include: Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants,[7] Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts,[3] and Jon Gruden of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers."→"Other current coaches that have led their team to a Super Bowl victory include Dungy, Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants, and Jon Gruden of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers." (see more comments below about trimming redundant language.
 * All records need to have en-dashes between wins and losses, per WP:DASH, though I would prefer to see wins and losses in separate columns.
 * "Bobby Petrino resigned after Week 4 of the 2007 NFL season, causing Assistant Coach Emmitt Thomas to be appointed as the interim coach for the remainder of the season."→"assistant coach" and so forth for all footnotes.
 * "San Fransisco 49ers"→"San Francisco 49ers"
 * "Vacant"→"vacant"
 * All references to Pro Football Reference need to provide Sports Reference LLC as the publisher and Pro Football Reference as the work.
 * It needs to be specified that all records apply with current teams only (a la Herman Edwards, since he came from the Jets beforehand, etc.).
 * Remove redundant language.
 * "After Jeff Fisher"→"After Fisher"
 * "Titans coach Jeff Fisher also has"→"Fisher has"
 * "Bill Belichick has won the Super Bowl"→"Belichick has won"

This list should have had a copyedit and a peer review before coming here to fix most of these issues; please consider it next time. Hope this helps. KV5 •  Squawk box  •  Fight on!  13:43, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Bill Belichick is overlinked in the lead. So are Tony Dungy, Indianapolis Colts and Andy Reid.
 * Remove all links from the image captions since they are linked elsewhere in the article.
 * "regular season winning percentage of .759" - link winning percentage
 * "worst winning percentage amoung all active coaches"→"among"
 * "leader amoung all current head coaches."→"among"
 * I suggest adding a key that shows, using color and a symbol, coaches with Super Bowl victories, and coaches with significant achievements as outlined in the lead (longest tenure, etc.).
 * In addition, this list fails WP:WIAFL because all of the coaching vacancies are subject to change without any notice right now because of the offseason. We are also still in the middle of the postseason, so the awards are also not static at the moment.

Comment - I wonder if this list would be better called "List of National Football League head coaches as of the end of the 2008 season", or something along those lines. After all, the list won't be "current" for very long unless it is very actively maintained. Rlendog (talk) 18:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If it's just "as of 2008", it's probably going to end up getting deleted rather than promoted per WP:RECENT. This is part of my concern under Criterion 7. KV5  •  Squawk box  •  Fight on!  20:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't be that hard to keep a list like this current. Zagalejo^^^ 07:16, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't be hard, but that doesn't mean it will be kept current. If, on the other hand, the list was titled "List of 2009 National Football League head coaches" I would have more confidence that the current openings will be updated when filled, and then if people continue to want to maintain a list like this they can make a "List of 2010 National Football League head coaches" next year.  But if this doesn't continue to be maintained, the a "List of 2009 National Football League head coaches" will still be accurate. Rlendog (talk) 21:30, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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