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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 User:The Rambling Man 07:07, 28 July 2008 [1].

List of Arctic Monkeys awards

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I believe this is FLC quality. Gary King (talk) 01:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • There is a problem with the right hand side template - the link to the band at the top is emboldened when it shouldn't be, and makes the first non-bold link to the band extraneous.
  • The lead is not particularly interesting. The "first band to win both "Best New Band" and "Best British Band" in the same night" is a real engaging point though - perhaps insert a couple more things with that sort of weight? WilliamH (talk) 11:30, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate your edit, but I don't think it is necessary. The bold formatting at the top of the infobox is standard from what I can see – examples include List of 50 Cent awards, List of Kanye West awards, and List of The Killers awards. Also, bold text in the lead is no longer a requirement, and I have chosen not to do it because I would like to link the first mention of Arctic Monkeys; both methods cannot be used together on the same terms, per WP:BOLDTITLE. I have also expanded the lead and would appreciate comments on that. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 18:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Erm, Gary - it's not finished. I believe I added loads to this ages ago and meant to add more, but sort of left it drift in the public domain for others to add to. Others have done a fine job - but I don't believe it covers all awards the band have been nominated for. Sorry. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:10, 19 July 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Oh, poo. Perhaps I should have scrolled down before I wrote that :) Well, obviously, I'll have to support having put in a lot of work to this. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Erm? Which awards did you not spot when you wrote that? :) Gary King (talk) 22:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments
    • What is the point of your image caption? I suppose it differentiates the image from Antarctic Monkeys, right?! :p
    • "The band achieved their success" - I think it's worth clarifying that their initial popularity came that way - after they "sold out" (i.e. went mainstream) their success was down to massive sales, downloads etc.
    • "début" is english now so you can ditch the accent.
    • " Their début album " maybe "Their first album..." so to avoid repeating debut?
    • BRIT or Brit Award?
    • "Their début album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released on January 23, 2006, was at the time the fastest-selling début album in British music history, beating Oasis' Definitely Maybe. It remains the fastest-selling début album for a group." - where's the reference for this?
    • Overlinking of Brit Awards (at least three times in the second para of the lead alone).
    • You could add a summary of their achievements as the last part of the lead?
    • "was first introduced in 1955" - citation?
    • Expand the Nominated work col a bit - avoid the wrap around.
    • Can you make the cols the same width from table to table?
    • "won one award from one nomination." - boring.
    • "[25][25][26][27]" - [25] x 2, how extreme!
    • piping {{reflist}} with 3 will annoy browsers. stick with two.
  • The Rambling Man (talk) 18:09, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All done. I don't get the "Expand the Nominated work col"; it looks okay to me? Same with the col widths; they look the same to me. The reflist is not piped to 3 columns; it changes columns depending on your browser size. Shrink your browser and it will have two columns. Gary King (talk) 18:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
PLUG and MUSO tables are odd on my browser (Safari under Mac OS X) so you tell me where I'm going wrong! reflist does change as you said so no worries there. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:58, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I made the tables fixed widths. Looks fine in Safari now. Gary King (talk) 19:09, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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