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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 The Rambling Man 15:36, 26 September 2009 [1].

League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award

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Nominator(s): KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it to meet all of the criteria. This is the newest and latest article in the future baseball awards featured topic, created in response to recent changes in that topic's inclusion criteria. A couple of things that I want to pre-address:

  • The format of this list is borrowed, in part, from List of Philadelphia Phillies no-hitters. The reason that I did not use statistical abbreviations in the table is because of the format I chose. It looks much cleaner with statistics written out rather than having to constantly refer back to a key for the name of a statistic that the casual reader may not know.
  • The names of the statistics themselves are not overlinked. MOS:LINK states that linking only the first occurrence of a term "is a rule of thumb that has many exceptions, including... tables, in which each row should be able to stand on its own." Additionally, this table is sortable, further necessitating this sort of link density.
  • Criterion 6 shouldn't be a concern here; this was built in my userspace and, as with a lot of the other lists I nominate, comes to life ready to bear the brunt of the FL process (I hope). I say this only because I've seen several nominations over the past few days where this concern was raised. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:30, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Most if not all of the facts given in the lead without inline citations are covered by the general reference. If you happen to see something that's got an outstanding need for an additional citation, please let me know and I'll try to scrounge one.

Please let me know if you see anything else that needs to be corrected. Concerns will be promptly addressed. Cheers! KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (17–14) 19:40, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comments – Mostly very good.
  • Little redundancy: "From the pitcher's mound, Steve Avery pitched 16⅓ innings...". Pitcher and pitched. Change the second to "threw" or "hurled"?
  • Use p. instead of pp. for the Howard Bryant book. I own the paperback version of the book, which mentions the playoff cancellation on a different page, but I'll assume it was that number in the original without any knowledge to the contrary.
  • Bullet for the general reference?
  • OK. The only source I've been able to find is this blog from Michael Rand, who's the assistant sports editor of the Minneapolis Star-Trib. [2] Considering his credentials, I believe this can count as reliable, but I want the opinion of other reviewers before inserting it. This isn't controversial information, and WP:RS says that a news source "that happens to publish in a "blog" style format for some or all of its content may be considered to be equally reliable as if it were published in a more "traditional" 20th-century format of a classic news story". Let me know your thoughts, please. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 01:51, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Does it really need sourcing that the most valuable player award for a series goes to the player deemed most valuable in that series by the voters? Staxringold talkcontribs 02:53, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I didn't think so; I thought it was pretty well straightforward as a definition, but since Giants2008 is asking for a reference, and since I trust his judgment on sourcing considering the amount of featured lists we've both worked on and reviewed, I tried to do my best to satisfy his request. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 11:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Yet another high-quality baseball awards list. Giants2008 (17–14) 19:40, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support Amazing work KV5, you do the Baseball Wikiproject proud. My only issue was that I only saw 3 years marked for WS MVP winners but you said 4 in the lead, but I saw Stargell's wasn't colored to I went ahead and did that. Staxringold talkcontribs 21:39, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • I made a few tweaks to the lead; hope they look OK.
  • Who decides who gets the award?

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:09, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support How come this hasn't been finished off yet? --Muboshgu (talk) 03:26, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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