Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international goals scored by Landon Donovan/archive1

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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 23:32, 5 January 2017 (UTC) [1].

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List of international goals scored by Landon Donovan

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• Featured list candidates/List of international goals scored by Landon Donovan/archive1

Nominator(s): SounderBruce 21:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

The most well-known male American soccer player of all time, and leader of the scoring charts for the men's national team. As he's just come out of retirement for his club, I thought I would nominate this list in celebration/dread. The format is pretty much based on other FLs on international goals. I tried to vary sources as much as possible to make things interesting. SounderBruce 21:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (Talk) 21:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Comments Why are we saying he's a retired soccer player when you say he just came out of retirement, and the main article doesn't say he's retired anymore? The fourth paragraph is stubby at a single sentence. Consider merging it into one of the larger paragraphs; the last paragraph seems like a decent target. The last paragraph has a duplicate 2010 World Cup link that isn't needed. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:25, 4 October 2016 (UTC) The article was written before Donovan announced his un-retirement in league play, but he has not returned to the national team (though he won't rule it out). Your other concerns have been addressed. SounderBruce 22:23, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

• Support – I'm confident that the list meets FL standards after the few issues I pointed out were addressed. Nice work on this one. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 07:05, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Comments as one of the architects of this kind of list, nice to see another here! "making him the country's all-time top scorer" presumably you mean "male" top scorer? I think nine US women have been more prolific than him... "scored 6 goals" six. "become the United States's all-time top goalscorer" see previous comment re: male. "scored 3 goals" three. "the 2nd most" -> second most. Put a timeframe around that Sports Illustrated story, it may have been superseded a dozen times since then... "scored 5 goals for" five. "with Chris Wondolowski and Gabriel Torres" maybe embellish a little "with fellow American ... and Panamanian striker Gabriel Torres..." Link "cap". "He scored his most competitive goals" I guess you mean he scored most of his competitive goals? "has scored 5 goals" five. Hat-trick against Cuba was actually four goals, worth noting in the lead. What's the intention with sorting on the Score and Result columns? Seems like it's not a helpful sort to our readers.... That's all I have right now. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:00, 4 December 2016 (UTC) Thanks for stopping by and reviewing this list. I've corrected everything you've pointed out in your comments. SounderBruce 03:20, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

• Support my issues dealt with in a timely fashion, good work. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:05, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Mymis (talk) 11:38, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

; Comments by Mymis "Donovan has scored 5 goals in 12 FIFA World Cup matches at the 2002 and 2010 editions" -> "has" is not needed, I think "The Los Angeles Times" in refs -> Los Angeles Times "MLSsoccer.com" -> "MLSsoccer.com", or "Major League Soccer" Some links must be archived, especially the associations websites as they probably would become broken soon, such as refs 1, 2, 7, and 12. In the intro, you must use the same style for numbers. Now, you use "has scored three" and "six goals to help", while at the same paragraphs you don't spell out the single digit numbers such as "scored 5 goals". Mymis (talk) 13:04, 22 December 2016 (UTC) Sorry for the wait, Mymis. I have corrected the reference errors, added archived links for non-newspaper sources, and converted all single-digit figures to words (per MOS:NUMERAL). I don't think figures above that margin are worth spelling out, as it would create some awkward sections ("eighteen in 34") in the text. SounderBruce 01:35, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

• You have my support, great work! Mymis (talk) 11:38, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
• Source review—all of the footnotes are consistently formatted, and they all cite reliable sources. I would recommend considering harmonizing the capitalization of titles; some are in title case, and others are in sentence case. I assume that they all mirror the original source formatting, but things would look a little more polished if they were consistently presented within the Wikipedia article. I wouldn't hold up the nomination over such a minor point. Imzadi 1979 → 02:54, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the review. I've decided to change the remaining reference titles to sentence case to match the majority of the list's references. SounderBruce 03:04, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Promoting. --PresN 12:24, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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