Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Everton F.C. players/archive1

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 not promoted by User:The Rambling Man 21:00, 30 June 2008 [1].

List of Everton F.C. players

This appears up to the standard of other football player lists that have been featured. SenorKristobbal (talk) 12:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Lots of issues to fix first, I think. "Name" column sorts by first name whereas it should be surname, Alan Greyner is listed twice, with different career dates, quite a few players have playing positions missing, which should be available for a club of Everton's stature, more red links than I would consider acceptable in such a list, some players with less than 100 apps have nothing listed to indicate why they have been included, no image(s), no proper citations........I think a Peer Review would have been advisable before coming straight to FLC...... ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:35, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I expanded this list a couple of months ago to provide a base from which a featured list could be created by someone with a couple of books about Everton, but while the list has had work done since, it is not ready for FLC. As I was using online sources only, it was not possible to determine the positions of some players without further research. These players are still lacking positions; the missing information is almost certainly readily available in print sources. Redlinks are not necessarily an issue for a featured list, but in this case they are far too numerous, including several from the second half of the 20th century, players for whom it is usually straightforward to obtain enough material for a decent-sized stub. All of ChrisTheDude's other points are valid too. Oldelpaso (talk) 15:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose If the nominator is serious about taking this list through to featured status, might I suggest they withdraw the nomination for now, have a proper look at some existing featured player lists, do some work on this list to get it somewhere near that standard, and then take it to peer review. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 15:58, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per all above, with a query as to why the Nationality column is not sortable. I'm fairly sure that the column would sort correctly, despite having no text in it. – Pee Jay 16:27, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm "quick-failing" this list. I suggest the nominator takes it to peer review before re-nominating it here at WP:FLC. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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