Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Bristol Rovers F.C. managers

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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 14 days, 5 support, 0 oppose. Promote. Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have been working on improving this list to featured status, and believe it is now ready to be listed here. It follows the same format of other football manager lists that have been promoted to featured status, and was peer reviewed here. — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 07:25, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Some comments.

• "The" in "The Football League" needs to be in lower case.

Done — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 09:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Seasons need to be split using an endash.

Done — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 09:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• One left in reference 2. Mattythewhite 15:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, missed that one. Now fixed. — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 16:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Could the sentence "In all the club has had 29..." use something like "full-time managers" instead of just "managers", to help clarify from the caretakers.

Done — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 09:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Are months available for the managers' reign?

Done — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 09:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Reflist should be used for the references.

Done — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 09:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's about it. Good work. Mattythewhite 07:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Good work. Mattythewhite 16:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Could we not have a separate notes column and then add the soccerbase links into that. I understand that you don't have them for the earlier managers, but i think they should be in the table and linked to the respective managers. Woodym555 16:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  I've added a notes column, but have deliberately kept Soccerbase links to a minimum, using it for only the most recent managers, because of the innacuracies in older manager stats. — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 18:25, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  Support Yep, that fixed my problem with it. I completely understand about the inaccuracies with early manager links, thats why i didn't ask for more. Good work, meets all criteria. Woodym555 18:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Support, all my concerns addressed at PR. Good work. The Rambling Man 13:24, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, until the dates sort properly. which they now do.

• Since you added the months to the managerial reigns, that column doesn't sort in date order. (There may be better ways to do it, but if you want to keep your current non-wikilinked format, one way would be to add a non-displaying sort key before the date, e.g. <span style="display:none">yyyymm</span>, where yyyy is the year of appointment, and mm the month. For your first row, there would be no need to supply a month number, and for the ones in April 2002, you could put a key of 20020401 for Bater and ...02 for Graydon. This should sort as a string rather than as a number.)

Done

I'm surprised no-one noticed the problem before, though. Also, I like your choice of sort key format better than mine. Struway2 18:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I'd have thought Broadhurst/Osman, as joint caretakers, should be listed as a pair rather than separately. It's misleading that their 6 wins etc appear twice in the list.

Now merged into a single row.

• Do you really need need the Honours and Notes columns to be sortable?

These columns are no longer sortable.

• WP:LEAD#Bold title says links should be avoided in the bold title in the lead section (you can link Bristol Rovers F.C. at its next occurrence).

Fixed.

• HTML is the default format for web citations, so there's no need to include mention of it in your references.

format=HTML has now been removed.

• You might want to add a note saying something like All figures come from *book* except where stated. (I know it's implied, but it doesn't hurt to say it explicitly.)

Note added at top of table. — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 17:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Struway2 16:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to Support. Sorting problem and all other comments dealt with very promptly, well done. Struway2 18:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]