Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Roberto Clemente Award/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 Scorpion0422 23:34, 13 June 2009.

Roberto Clemente Award

 * Nominator(s): iMatthew : Chat  13:49, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Same reason as always. :) iMatthew : Chat  13:49, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Support I made some copyedits, and everything looks fantastic! Reywas92 Talk  17:43, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments from 
 * Lead
 * 'The Roberto Clemente Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball (MLB) player selected who best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team.' -- The bolding of the article name is awkward, Roberto Clemente Award should be the only thing bolded.
 * 'MLB has presented this award, originally known as the Commissioner's Award, since 1971.' -- IMO it would read better as Originally known as the Commissioner's Award, MLB has presented this award since 1971.
 * 'In 1973, the award was renamed after Clemente after he was killed in a plane crash while delivering supplies to victims of the Nicaragua earthquake.' -- A link to plane crash isn't really needed. Is there a link to an article about his specific plane crash? If not, its best to remove that link.
 * 'In the past few years, the player with the highest amount of votes received online via MLB.com gets one vote in addition to the votes cast by the panel' -- Is there a specific time frame, because 'past few years' is a bit WP:WEASEL. In addition, this may sound a bit unnecessary but instead of 'via MLB.com' it would be better to state it as via MLB's official website, MLB.com,
 * 'Since 2000, the winner receives a trophy and $25,000 donation from John Hancock Financial Services (JHFS) that goes to their charity of choice. ' --> Since 2000, the winner has received a trophy and $25,000 donation from John Hancock Financial Services (JHFS) that goes to their charity of choice. 
 * The lead needs to be expanded to summarize the list more, ie. First, most recent winners, and any other significant winners. Stats may also be worth mentioning, like who was the first of such and such to win the award, etc.
 * Award winners
 * Add a key explaining the positions
 * Consider linking each year to that year's MLB season?
 * References
 * The ESPN ref should have ESPN.com as the work and the publisher as ESPN Internet Ventures.
 * For the Baseball-reference ref, the publisher is Sports Illustrated LLC, while Baseball-reference is the work.-- T ru  c o   19:32, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I got everything. Let me know if anything else isn't right. Thanks! iMatthew : Chat  19:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Support -- Well you get my first support since coming back =] Great work on this list that meets WP:WIAFL. You might want to consider, however, splitting this table into tables from the AL and NL since its a bit longer than your other FLC.-- T ru  c o   18:56, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Support from KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 14:32, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Comments –
 * "The Roberto Clemente Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball (MLB) player selected who best exemplifies...". The "player selected who" part is awkward.
 * "the award was renamed after Clemente after...". Don't like two "after"s in three words.
 * "out of 30 nominees, one nominee from each club." Remove second "nominee" as redundant.
 * Remove space before reference at end of second paragraph.
 * Don't think the table should be split because there is only one award for the whole league, as opposed to most other baseball awards.  Giants2008  ( 17-14 ) 23:42, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Got everything, thanks. iMatthew : Chat  (Review Me)   11:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:23, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:23, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * What makes http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_moy.shtml a reliable source? Dabomb87 (talk) 21:14, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I fixed everything, and got the source removed. I forgot this was still open. Sorry for the late replies! iMatthew : Chat  17:59, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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