Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Moonlighting episodes/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 Dabomb87 04:52, 10 April 2010 [1].

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List of Moonlighting episodes

List of Moonlighting episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:02, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

• Featured list candidates/List of Moonlighting episodes/archive1

The greatest TV show in the history of the world ever, at least according to my wife. While I wouldn't go quite that far, it's a pretty cool show and so, twenty-five years to the very day since the first episode aired, I present this list for your consideration. Please let me know what still needs tweaking. I'm on the right hand side of the Atlantic, but have done my best to write in that crazy colonial form of English :-) And in the interests of full disclosure, I'm not in the WikiCup ;-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:02, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

• Support - I like the fact that the lead in the list is so much better than the lead in the main article. Sandman888 (talk) 12:08, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Comment I made an American English fix in the summary of Episode 3 - "Blue Moon is..." instead of "Blue Moon are..." Make sure the rest of the list uses this convention as well. Jujutacular ^T · C 18:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Done - there was only one more. I also changed "the Blue Moon team are" to "the Blue Moon team is" - is that correct? I'm sure I read somewhere that "team" is considered a singular noun in American English...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:40, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that's right. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 08:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments daunting list, so that's probably why it's been overlooked for 3.5 weeks. Apologies for that Chris... so my bits 'n' pieces... I wonder if, in the opening sentence, you can provide a little bit more context, e.g. when it ran, where, etc? Done "model who loses most of her assets" fnar. can you specify which assets she lost? Done You seem to switch tense in the lead (Moonlighting is followed by characters were...) Done. Referring to long finished shows in the present tense is an Americanism I haven't yet got to grips with..... "on ABC" - perhaps include "in the United States" (unless the context you'll be adding earlier makes this redundant!) Done I think it'd be safe to link pilot appropriately. Done " The series lasted 5 seasons, but only 66 episodes were produced." - but? but? 12.5 episodes per season is okay isn't it? Perhaps, again, some context as to why this is a "but" rather than a "with". Over here, 12.5 episodes per season would be quite a high figure, but in America their seasons last for nearly six months and usually have at least 20 episodes. That's what's so unusual about that figure of 66 episodes. I've noted this "Ratings declined, however in the later " a comma after however here. Done "cancelled" call me odd but is that one too many l's for a USEng cancelation? Done That's a start, my dinner's on the way, so episode critiques will follow after you've looked at these comments. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC) Many thanks for your comments, hope your dinner was tasty -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC) 'Twas. Moving onto the episodes... "left broke" a little colloquial. Did they get those Nazi diamonds in the pilot? "famous mystery author" I take it you mean mystery the genre, not mystery the unknown author... "become involved in a CIA assassination plot, which culminates in a huge food fight at a banquet" yeah, that was Moonlighting alright... "but won't go" avoid contractions. "he winds up dead" a touch colloquial again. "ex-accountant has bought a new life with her stolen money in Argentina" becomes unclear whose money it is... "he can't act like" contractions. "in a diamong heist" a diamong? a diamong? "to the theatre " theater for this list. "she'd never kept " strike three. "can't get along with" make that four. "and can't tell them" gah. "lost Agens to " Agnes. You linked New York but not Chicago. I wonder if there's any need to link these cities at all. "repo men" a bit colloquial, or perhaps ripe for linking. "Agnes' mother" I'm ambivalent, but most of the USEng I've seen would say "Agnes's" here. "man she's living" six. "trash the house." colloquial. "and it's in the" last one. Refs 15, 17, 19 have a spare ] The Rambling Man (talk) 08:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC) All addressed, I think, apart from the query about the Nazi diamonds in the pilot. I can't remember the answer and will have to re-watch the episode to answer it. Luckily I (or rather the wife) has it on DVD, so I'll try and do that tonight....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:53, 30 March 2010 (UTC) Actually, I just found the climactic scenes from the pilot episode on YouTube, so will watch that and answer your last query at lunchtime. The occasional WP edit when I'm meant to be working is one thing, but watching 15 minute YouTube videos is a whole different kettle of fish..... :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC) All done now -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Support - all good. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Jujutacular T · C 20:49, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments Two columns would make the reflist a bit easier to take in. "The Blue Moon team is cornered by the drug dealer whose money it is, but are able to turn him in and use the reward money to assist their dire financial situation." - This sentence is still a bit strange, the second half of the sentence still uses British convention ("are"). However, simply switching that word to "is" would make a bad-sounding repetition of the word "is". Try rewording. Is episode 62 really titled "Perfetc"? Jujutacular T · C 15:22, 5 April 2010 (UTC) As I see Chris is on wikibreak for the next week or so, I took the liberty of addressing my own concerns. I decided the reflist looks better as it is, at least on my comp. Reworded the sentence, and I'll take Allmovie's word for it, being titled "Perfetc". I guess it's a joke or something. Jujutacular T · C 20:49, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Support Jujutacular ^T · C 20:49, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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