Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Academy Award for Best Director/archive1

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Academy Award for Best Director

Featured list candidates/Academy Award for Best Director/archive1

Nominator(s): Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 17:52, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe that it meets the criteria. I have modeled this page on the pages Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, none of which were significantly contributed to by me. I have completely redone the table on the page and have also written a lead, a "multiple nominations and wins" section, and an "oldest and youngest winners" section. Thanks to any commenters on this historic and important subject! Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 17:52, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Birdienest81 (talk) 02:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

;Comments from Birdienest81

Since this table is made sortable, the names in the table will all have to be put into a sortname template: If the name of film is starts with "A" or "An" or "the", then use Film title. I can help you with this portion if you have trouble doing this, or ask Cowlibob.

@Birdienest81: I don't have any experience with this area of template syntax, so I would appreciate it if one of you could help or at least show me how to fix this. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 17:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Remove List of Academy Award for Best Directing winners by age, List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees, List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees, and List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Directing from the See Also section since those articles are linked in the Academy Awards lists template at the bottom of the list.

Done. Those were added before I started to work on the page, and I didn't really notice them. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 17:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In the multiple nominations/wins tally, Robert Wise won two awards.

Done

Overall, great work! I was planning to do this myself, but I'm glad you took the task of making it FL worthy!

--Birdienest81 (talk) 19:13, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments! See my responses above. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 17:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I can help you with the remainder of the sorting. Anyways, great job!

--Birdienest81 (talk) 02:11, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from Jimknut

It looks like the film titles still need some work with the sorting. Titles that begin with "A" or "An" should sort under the second word in the title. Likewise, while it's optional, I think titles that begin with number (such as 12 Angry Men) should sort as if the number was spelled out (i.e. Twelve Angry Men). Jimknut (talk) 22:15, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jimknut: After looking at Birdie and Cowlibob's edits with regard to sorting, I understood how to do this and was then able to complete the sorting by myself. I am finished with all the films that begin with "A", "An", or "The". However, I do not think that I should change titles that begin with number, as this was how they were initially marketed. Also, it would be a bit silly to change 2001: A Space Odyssey to "Two Thousand One: A Space Odyssey" or 8½ to "Eight and a half". :) Thank you for the comment! Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 02:04, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Source review (spot checks not done):

Resolved comments from Frankie _talk

Comments by FrB.TG

"It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited" – "exhibited" is not quite a good choice of word.
"Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the directors" - see WP:CURRENTLY and this sentence is unsourced.
"awards in this category with four ~~Oscars~~".
Why do you have both the full form and abbreviation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in all of the references?
Reference 4 is incomplete.

In the comments is also the source review (only concering consistency) of the article-- Frankie _talk 17:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: Sorry for the late comments--this page must have accidentally fallen off my watchlist. I have fixed all your comments except for one. I copy-pasted these refs (after checking them, obviously) from other FL Academy awards articles. I will remove the persistent use of the acronym if you insist, but I just wanted to let you know that. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 15:21, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know but to me it seems to redundant to repeat both full form and initials every time they occur. If you use initials for something you don't need to use the full form and the other way around. -- Frankie _talk 17:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: Okay, I have removed repetitions of the AMPAS acronym. Let me know what you think now. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 15:17, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Additional comment from Birdienest81

I've replaced the TBD bar for this year's slate of nominees into bar that reads "Winner will be announced on February 28, 2016". From my understanding, that is how fellow featured lists from the Daytime Emmy Awards indicate a ceremony that has yet to happen.

--Birdienest81 (talk) 04:27, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support the nomination. -- Frankie _talk 19:41, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from SNUGGUMS

None of the entries in "See also" really belong as they don't pertain to the Oscars themselves
The Levy citation has a HARVref error since it doesn't properly connect to its source.
"Rainbow Media" and "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" shouldn't be italicized

Shouldn't be too much trouble to fixup. Snuggums (talk / edits) 20:06, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@SNUGGUMS: I have fixed your comments. Thanks for your review! Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 03:12, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And I now support. Snuggums (talk / edits) 03:16, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from Miyagawa
The only comment I have is regarding the table formatting of the first awards. It isn't immediately apparent that three of the films were considered for the Dramatic category and two for the Comedic. As I see it, there are two options - either the bracketed Dramatic/Comedic lines are added to the nominees or just for that year, add a further column in to state dramatic/comedic. I would personally suggest for former, only because that way it won't break the sort function for the Director(s) column. Ping me back when you've had a chance to look at this and I'll lend my support. Miyagawa (talk) 13:14, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Miyagawa: Thanks for the comment. I have added a parenthetical of (Dramatic) or (Comedy) to the nominees as well. Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 19:18, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great, happy to Support. Miyagawa (talk) 20:16, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Source check - I have done a source review as seen above in my comments and now after checking them for verification, I think all of the references are meticulously sourced. The facts present in the article can easily be verified with the sources. -- Frankie _talk 19:05, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. - – SchroCat (talk) 08:55, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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