Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Walter A. Brown Trophy winners/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:Gimmetrow 22:55, 30 September 2008 [1].
previous FLC (15:45, 16 August 2008) It previously failed because of a lack of comments, and I still believe it meets the criteria. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie » 03:15, 15 September 2008 (UTC) A couple of Comments
- What was it called before it was renamed in 1964?
- I don't think it even had an "official" name until 1964.
- The intro seems a little short, couldn't you expand it like List of Heisman Trophy winners. Expanding on it's history.
REZTER TALK ø 10:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
- Expanded. jj137 (talk) 22:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Comments from Killervogel5
- "The Boston Celtics hold the record for the most wins of the Walter A. Brown Trophy, with a total of thirteen times."→"The Boston Celtics won the Brown Trophy a total of 13 times, most in league history."
- Fixed by MFC. jj137 (talk) 03:14, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- Basketball Association of America should be linked at its first appearance (currently second).
- Fixed by MFC. jj137 (talk) 03:14, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- "The Walter A. Brown Trophy was a trophy" - It is obviously a trophy. Change to "The Walter A. Brown Trophy was awarded to...".
- Fixed by MFC. jj137 (talk) 03:14, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- "conclusion of every NBA season"→every should be "each," and link NBA season to this location.
- Fixed by MFC. jj137 (talk) 03:21, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- "The trophy was kept by the winning team for one year, and given to the next championship team after the following finals." - remove comma.
- Fixed by MFC. jj137 (talk) 03:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- New trophy design doesn't need to be linked in the lead and the footnotes.
- I removed the link from the footnotes. jj137 (talk) 03:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- Boston Celtics linked twice in lead.
- Fixed by MFC. jj137 (talk) 03:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- The "1" note in the 1950 season doesn't go anywhere. Remove.
- Footnote C: The trophy was replaced by a new design.
- Reference lists should be no more than 2 columns per MOS.
- I would also like to see some expansion in the lead.
- Expanded. jj137 (talk) 03:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- What about sorting? Colspans would need to be removed for that to happen.
- Sorry, I guess I don't really see how sorting would help. Could you explain a bit? Thanks. jj137 (talk) 03:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Review by Killervogel5
Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:39, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
- Working on everything, please give me some time. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie » 14:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Oppose
- "from 1946–49" - never keen on this in prose - why not just "from 1946 to 1949"?
- Hmm odd - " of each NBA season from 1947 to 1977. " - but the comment above discussed the BAA being from 1946 to 1949... so what happened in 1946?
- Fixed it. jj137 (talk) 03:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
- "next championship team after the following finals" - not good English - I know what you're saying but currently it sort of says "the next one the following time" which is awkward.
- "the NBA in 1949." but previously... "NBA season from 1947 to 1977." - implying NBA existed from 1947.
- "The trophy was renamed in 1984 to honor former NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien.[3][4][5][6] " - four citations for this one claim
- I removed one of them that was redundant. jj137 (talk) 04:22, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
- Hang on - this list finishes in 1977 but the renaming took place in 1984 - what's the deal? New design but same name so surely this list needs those winners too?
- And it wasn't named after him until 1964...
- Nothing to change there I think, as I don't think it even had an official name until 1964. jj137 (talk) 22:44, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
- 1950 - what's the superscript 1 mean?
- MFC fixed it - it links to the notes section now. jj137 (talk) 03:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
- No need for full stops in the key table.
The Rambling Man (talk) 17:27, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Resolved comments from SRX
Comments
- A new trophy design was created for the 1977 NBA Finals, though it retained the Walter A. Brown title. - I don't see why you need to link to the Brien trophy in "new trophy design" since that trophy came about in the 80s.
- Fixed, I removed the link. jj137 (talk) 03:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- The Boston Celtics won the trophy a total of 13 times, most in league history. - this is all that is summed up from the list?
- Fixed, see below. jj137 (talk) 03:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- You should add who the first winner was, an intermediate winner, and the final winner (in the prose) to expand the prose.
- Done, I added sentences about the first and last winners and added more about the Celtics. jj137 (talk) 03:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- I would make the key into a separate section to squeeze in a table of contents.
--SRX 23:48, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
- Now that you removed that link from the sentence you should add it in the other sentence where yo say that it was renamed.
- Instead of "last winner" you can say "the final recipient of the trophy were the 76ers"--SRX 14:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- The title suggests it is an article about the Walter A. Brown Trophy, not simply a list of winners. Could you call this List of Walter A. Brown Trophy winners or something similar, and redirect? Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 06:02, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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