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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 not promoted by User:The Rambling Man 15:45, 16 August 2008 [1].

Walter A. Brown Trophy

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After cleaning up and thoroughly referencing this list, it meets all criterea. Comments will be addressed. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie » 15:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 18:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments
    • Lead is too short.
    • Image caption... Unbold (or unlink) trophy name and remove full stop as it's a fragment of a sentence.
    • Did you try to sort the table? Not working at all under Safari/Mac OS X. I'd guess at the colspan being a problem.
    • Need a key. I presume bold+yellow+dagger (and all combinations thereof) means something that just plain uncoloured cells doesn't?
    • "basketball season" presumably you mean NBA season (i.e. other basketball teams may play outside that same season?)
    • You need to explain Eastern and Western Champion.
    • What was it called 1947–49?
    • Note A needs an en-dash.
    • Note B isn't grammatically correct.
    • "were also rewarded a newly designed trophy" - note C - also? What does that mean in the context of a stand-alone note?
    • Too much dependency on primary sources (i.e. NBA.com).
  • The Rambling Man (talk) 16:00, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Questions
    • What was it called before the "trophy was renamed for Brown"?
    • And, less important and maybe obvious (but I don't know so I'm asking), who re-named it for Brown? Was it the team owners, the commissioner, or a board? maclean 18:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The trophy was presumably unnamed before it was renamed for Brown. When I worked on the list NBA Awards, I can't find any references that indicate the trophy was named. As for your second question, I believe it was the NBA who renamed the trophy.—Chris! ct 21:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I basically address every problem. But I can't really expand the lead anymore since that is everything I got from my research.—Chris! ct 23:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How about saying who won the Walter Brown trophy the most times? That's something that would be interesting to note since the table isn't sortable. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 16:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Added —Chris! ct 21:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can it be referenced? KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 21:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it needs reference since it can be easily verified by looking at the table.—Chris! ct 22:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia can't be used as a reference for itself. It should be a simple matter of finding one from Basketball Reference. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 02:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Killervogel5
Comments from Killervogel5
Per the above, ref 11 needs publisher information.
NBA.com is a website, not a publisher. The actual publisher is the NBA. Remove the .com.
KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 16:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done —Chris! ct 21:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think that there is still too high of a dependency on primary sources (31 refs out of 37, plus one without a publisher which I assume is also NBA.com).
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