Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Sweden international footballers/archive1
List of Sweden international footballers
Self-nom. Very useful list of the notable Swedish national team players, including all with above 50 caps and another three that has scored more than 25 goals for the national team, it includes the most important players of the national team through the years. Well sourced, uncontroversial, stable and well-constructed, I think this list fullfills all requirements. A few images of the players would be nice, but free alternatives are hard to find. – Elisson • T • C • 20:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Filling out the few red links would benefit the article. Punkmorten 10:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Support Comprehensive and referenced. The redlinks are few in number. Oldelpaso 10:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - it does not look good. Short lead, thin table, and bunch of footnotes, and that's it. The lead should be expanded. Table should spell out things like "position" or "appearance" or "goal keeper." It could also include club/country information. Some free pictures woud be really neat. Renata 03:00, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- The criteria says "a concise lead section that summarizes the scope of the list". This lead does summarize the scope of the list, there is no need to add anything more. But please, tell me what would you would like to have included in the lead and we can discuss it. I can't see how "thin table" would merit an oppose, but I've spelled out "position" and "appearances" just to widen the table without adding anything, except making it, IMHO, look even uglier (a wider column with no more information in it). Using abbreviations for the positions are standard for this kind of list, see the other featured or near featured football lists. Include country information? Please, this is a list of players of the Sweden national team, you want me to add a Swedish flag and the text "Sweden" on every single player? The clubs of the player does also not add to the list (it has nothing to do with national team appearances), if wanted, the info can be found at the player's article, and it would also make the list uglier as several players have played for four clubs or more, making the list too wide or too long. – Elisson • T • C • 12:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, misunderstood one thing. But then question - why is there "international" in the title? Renata 23:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- "Foo international footballer" is a term used in football and other sports to describe a player that has played for the national team of Foo. Quoting our article international: "In team sports, 'International' commonly refers either to a match between two national teams, or to a player capped by his national team." – Elisson • T • C • 23:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, ok, sorry for that one. I did not do enough justice to investigate what's going on. The only two things that remain not addressed are short lead and thin table. Lead can be quite easily expanded talking a bit more about the national team (2-3 sentences of background info), any special points on the list (i.e. records?), how players are selected for the team and such stuff. And I still believe the table needs to be wider because there is a huge ugly white gap between table and pictures. Spelling out GK would be one of the ways to expand it. Renata 17:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I do not see the point of adding irrelevant information to the intro just for the sake of making it longer. Background info on the national team can be found in the linked article, the list itself contains the record (most played matches), and how the players are selected for the team is just as with every other national team in the world, done by the manager. Either way, neither "long intro", nor "wide table" are attributes required for a FL. And, for someone with a screen resolution of 800x600 or 1024x768, the space between the table and pictures is not that wide. I understand if you do not want to support this nomination, but they are not good enough reasons for an oppose, IMHO. – Elisson • T • C • 21:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, ok, sorry for that one. I did not do enough justice to investigate what's going on. The only two things that remain not addressed are short lead and thin table. Lead can be quite easily expanded talking a bit more about the national team (2-3 sentences of background info), any special points on the list (i.e. records?), how players are selected for the team and such stuff. And I still believe the table needs to be wider because there is a huge ugly white gap between table and pictures. Spelling out GK would be one of the ways to expand it. Renata 17:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- "Foo international footballer" is a term used in football and other sports to describe a player that has played for the national team of Foo. Quoting our article international: "In team sports, 'International' commonly refers either to a match between two national teams, or to a player capped by his national team." – Elisson • T • C • 23:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, misunderstood one thing. But then question - why is there "international" in the title? Renata 23:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- The criteria says "a concise lead section that summarizes the scope of the list". This lead does summarize the scope of the list, there is no need to add anything more. But please, tell me what would you would like to have included in the lead and we can discuss it. I can't see how "thin table" would merit an oppose, but I've spelled out "position" and "appearances" just to widen the table without adding anything, except making it, IMHO, look even uglier (a wider column with no more information in it). Using abbreviations for the positions are standard for this kind of list, see the other featured or near featured football lists. Include country information? Please, this is a list of players of the Sweden national team, you want me to add a Swedish flag and the text "Sweden" on every single player? The clubs of the player does also not add to the list (it has nothing to do with national team appearances), if wanted, the info can be found at the player's article, and it would also make the list uglier as several players have played for four clubs or more, making the list too wide or too long. – Elisson • T • C • 12:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comments - I'm sure the information is fine, there are references, etc, but, um, this is rather ugly (sorry). Would it be possible to add some visual interest - colour? bolding current players? an image? And would it not be possble to link the abbreviated positions, rather than adding a key? -- ALoan (Talk) 12:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Heh, I know it is "ugly" compared to many other featured lists, so no problem. Regarding pictures, have added three I found when searching through all names on the list. Regarding bolding of current players or linking the positions, I've only followed the standards that "we" (the members of the Football WikiProject) use for most lists, see for example the featured List of Arsenal F.C. players. – Elisson • T • C • 14:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- The images are great - thanks. I appreciate that the WikiProject has agreed standards - WikiProject Cricket tries to standardise its articles too - but the abbreviation does not help readers. I think the positions really ought to be spelled out - is there really a reason to write "GK", "DF", "MF" and FW" rather than "Goalkeeper", "Defender", "Midfielder", and "Forward"? The abbreviation saves at most 8 letter, and pixels are not that scarce in this list. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- The List of Arsenal F.C. players went to featured status with the abbreviations, and linking every single position cell seems overkill, better to have one key at the bottom with links. Either way, players who have played regularly on several of the positions, for example Tomas Brolin (MF/FW) or Bo Larsson (DF/MF/FW), would create a very wide and column if spelling out the abbreviations. – Elisson • T • C • 21:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- How about turning the abbreviations into piped links? For instance DF. Punkmorten 09:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- The List of Arsenal F.C. players went to featured status with the abbreviations, and linking every single position cell seems overkill, better to have one key at the bottom with links. Either way, players who have played regularly on several of the positions, for example Tomas Brolin (MF/FW) or Bo Larsson (DF/MF/FW), would create a very wide and column if spelling out the abbreviations. – Elisson • T • C • 21:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- The images are great - thanks. I appreciate that the WikiProject has agreed standards - WikiProject Cricket tries to standardise its articles too - but the abbreviation does not help readers. I think the positions really ought to be spelled out - is there really a reason to write "GK", "DF", "MF" and FW" rather than "Goalkeeper", "Defender", "Midfielder", and "Forward"? The abbreviation saves at most 8 letter, and pixels are not that scarce in this list. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Heh, I know it is "ugly" compared to many other featured lists, so no problem. Regarding pictures, have added three I found when searching through all names on the list. Regarding bolding of current players or linking the positions, I've only followed the standards that "we" (the members of the Football WikiProject) use for most lists, see for example the featured List of Arsenal F.C. players. – Elisson • T • C • 14:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Support very well put together, good clarity and precicsion, and sme great images too. к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 13:30, 21 October 2006 (UTC)