Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft/archive1

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The list was promoted by SchroCat 13:46, 27 November 2015 [1].

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List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft

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Nominator(s): –Grondemar 05:30, 22 September 2015 (UTC) & Robert4565 (talk)

After 3.5 years away from Wikipedia, I'm back at FLC with another UConn-themed list: List of Connecticut Huskies in the NFL Draft. I'd like to thank User:Robert4565 for pulling together this list in 2014; I added prose I had left in my userspace from 2012 as well as new prose, and cleaned up the list with high-quality references. I based the list restructure on the existing college team in the NFL Draft featured lists, as well as List of Connecticut Huskies in the WNBA Draft.

I believe this candidate fully meets the featured list criteria. Please review and concur if you agree. –Grondemar 05:30, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

I do too. Robert4565 (talk) 12:14, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

• I believe the key needs to be split into three two-column tables and have column headings added to be accessible. Thisisnotatest (talk) 09:04, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

  I'll take a look and try to fix it this afternoon. –Grondemar 15:31, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

  After further consideration I decided to remove the key entirely and to incorporate the full name of the positions and links directly in the main list, more similar to List of Connecticut Huskies in the WNBA Draft than the previous NFL Draft FLs. This avoids the challenge of making the key table accessible; it also should make it easier for the reader to go to pages describing the positions without having to scroll up to the key. –Grondemar 00:26, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

  Agreed, that solves the issue. I've struck out my comment. Thisisnotatest (talk) 00:36, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

  Thanks! –Grondemar 00:50, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (Talk) 01:04, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments – After being asked for a review on my talk page, I've come here with some thoughts. And yes, I do remember Will Beatty, although I didn't know he was from Connecticut. Just an interesting aside: I like that we can now cite a note that goes directly to general references. Not sure if that's been done in other FLs that I've seen, but that's a neat trick. Thanks! In case anyone else wants to use the same trick, I moved the code to Template:Genref so it can be used in any article. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC) The biggest issue I see is a bunch of ugly red text after the notes. It looks like the formatting needs a tweak or two. Fixed. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC) As a sidenote, I was really confused by this since I swore there were no cite errors when I nominated the list, but when I looked back in the history it appeared the errors had been in the article for some time. The answer, which I finally discovered in the Signpost, is that they updated Cite to produce an error when a citation was defined multiple times on the same page. I usually use list-defined references but can't when I need to put a citation in a note. People shoud go back and check other articles to see if this new cite error is appearing in them. –Grondemar 20:55, 11 October 2015 (UTC) Spell out NCAA in note 2? Fixed. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC) And BAA in ref 6? Fixed. –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC) Be careful with the date-related items like "Beginning in 2005 and continuing to the present day" because these can be a pain to keep updated. Changed to "Beginning in 2005 and continuing through 2015". –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC) Overall, the sources look both reliable and numerous, and they are archived to boot. Giants2008 (Talk) 00:18, 10 October 2015 (UTC) I actually noticed I missed archiving a couple of references due to Webcitation acting up when I was writing the article, so I went back and finished archiving them. All references should now be archived. Thank you very much for the review! –Grondemar 03:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

• Support – I quickly checked in on a commercial break during the game tonight and saw that my few piddling concerns have been resolved, so I'm happy to support now. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:04, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

• Support – An engaging and well written lead section; comprehensive, well referenced, and well formatted lists; nice use and placement of images. Drdpw (talk) 06:35, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Comments

• "This led to a massive bidding war..." massive seems a bit POV and sensationalist, perhaps just remove it and have bidding war
• "Beginning in 2005 and continuing through 2015... " comma after 2015
• "The most Connecticut players to be selected in a single NFL Draft were five" were should be was

Looks good otherwise. NapHit (talk) 09:15, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

@NapHit:, all the above are now fixed. Thanks for your review. –Grondemar 00:44, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Happy to support now. Great work. NapHit (talk) 10:11, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. – 13:36, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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