Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Territorial pick/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 18:39, 24 October 2009.

Territorial pick

 * Nominator(s): Martin tamb (talk) 21:23, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because it meets the FL criteria. The topic itself is often forgotten but is notable as it includes a lot of notable players. — Martin tamb (talk) 21:23, 3 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - nice list— Chris! c / t 00:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Very nice list you've got here. In the first sentence, "after 1950" might be better than "since 1950."  "Since 1950" makes it sound like it's still going on.  Also, if you could explain why the NBA stopped having territorial picks, that might be interesting.   --Coemgenus 13:51, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done the first one, still looking for any reference about the second one. — Martin tamb (talk) 09:57, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, if you find it or not, I still support, I just thought it would be interesting. Coemgenus 13:42, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree with the above comments; this is a very nice list indeed. I just have two comments:
 * Shouldn't the sorting be done by the name of the school (i.e., University of Cincinnati should sort before La Salle University)?
 * The first image is fair use and needs to be removed, as no appropriate rationale could be provided for its inclusion. Two free-use images should be enough for this article. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:47, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done both! — Martin tamb (talk) 17:05, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I know nothing at all about American basketball, but found this an interesting topic and a well-presented list. Technical note that there are no dab links, the external links all work, the sources used appear to be reliable and the two images have alt text. Now for a couple of comments: Hope these help. BencherliteTalk 16:25, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "after the BAA was renamed into NBA" – is "renamed into" an American-English turn of phrase? (It isn't an English-English expression; we'd say "renamed the NBA")
 * Can you reword the first para of the lead so that we don't have links to 1949 and 1966 that look to the casual observer as simple year links? E.g. "since the [1949 draft]" and "when the draft system was revamped before the [1966 draft]".
 * "Having a popular college players from the teams' local areas was a way to increase the local fan support" - grammar has got a bit mangled here, and you use "local" twice; how about "Having popular players from colleges in a team's local area was a way to increase fan support."? Or did you mean that the players were from popular colleges? It was a bit unclear...
 * "6 picks from 5 different colleges" ought to be "six picks from five different colleges" (MOS:NUM says to spell out numbers less than ten (or do I mean less than 10...?))
 * Does the "college/city" column have to be so wide?
 * All done, thanks to User:Chrishomingtang who fix most of the issues. — Martin tamb (talk) 03:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. BencherliteTalk 13:18, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Support – Nice list on an interesting topic, and it meets the criteria.  Giants2008  ( 17–14 ) 19:25, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I have fix them again. Really sorry for the grammar mistakes, English isn't my first language, but I guess this shouldn't be an excuse for the grammar mistakes. — Martin tamb (talk) 16:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've had a go at rephrasing some points, so TRM can now direct his comments at me! Don't be afraid of asking for help in future. BencherliteTalk 18:05, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "Where's there's a blame there's a claim"? Good work all round, thanks Bencherlite for your assistance, and Martin, as B says, don't be afraid to ask!  The Rambling Man (talk) 18:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks to both of you for all the help in making this nomination successful and I promise won't be afraid to ask for help in the future. — Martin tamb (talk) 03:18, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Support Yet another interesting NBA list. It meets the FL criteria (I made a few tweaks). My only suggestion is to move one image into the lead. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


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