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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 Dabomb87 23:41, 17 September 2010 [1].

1970 NBA Draft

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Nominator(s): Martin tamb (talk) 05:57, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another NBA Draft list, similar format to the already-promoted 1984 NBA Draft (FLC) and the not-promoted 1973 NBA Draft (FLC). — Martin tamb (talk) 05:57, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment—no dab links, no dead external links. Ucucha 06:40, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • "In this draft, 17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players." - International players were also selected in the draft. --K. Annoyomous (talk) 23:58, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done.
Sure, I'll consider re-nominate it after this one is done. —— Martin tamb (talk) 05:50, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done. — Martin tamb (talk) 06:06, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - looks good to me—Chris!c/t 01:29, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 16:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Would love an appropriate lead image in that infobox...
Moved the first pick's image to the lead. I tried to put that in the infobox but I think it looks really weird. Draft logo is better suited for the infobox, but I don't think they had a logo in 1970.
  • Draft is linked twice, quickly, one more specifically than the other.
Removed the second link to Draft (sports). I think a link to NBA Draft should be enough.
  • "Fourth pick Dave Cowens from Florida State University and eight pick" -> eighth?
Fixed.
  • Other picks table, sorting by round has different effect from sorting the Draft section, namely in the former case, Pick sorts similarly but in the latter case, Pick sorts somewhat randomly (in Safari).
I couldn't find any problems, even in Safari. I'm not really sure what's wrong because every entries in Pick column are numbers, so it should has numerical sorting order. — Martin tamb (talk) 17:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Rambling Man (talk) 18:04, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (27 and counting) 23:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments –
  • Grammar is faulty in "He played six seasons in the ABA before finally joined the NBA...".
  • "He has been selected to five All-ABA teams, six ABA All-Star Games and one NBA All-Star Game." "has been" → "was". He's not gaining any more of these honors, after all.
  • "He has been selected to both All-NBA Team and All-Star Game." Same problem here, along with the lack of at least one connecting "the".
  • "The Rockets first and second round picks". Apostrophe needed for Rockets?
  • "The 1970 Draft also known as...". Missing "is".
  • "the Atlanta Hawks drafted Mexican Manuel Raga and Italian Dino Meneghin, both were playing in the Italian league at the time." Comma should be a semi-colon here.
  • Reference 31 should include an indication that the link is in PDF format. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 20:18, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done—Chris!c/t 01:20, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Courcelles 04:07, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
*Comments
In the finest split of the hair splits, you need a citation for this being the 24th draft.
You have three straight sentences that start with "X's achievements include..." A little variety in sentences, please?
"Mexican Manuel Raga and Italian Dino Meneghin; " I think Mexico and Italy are familiar enough concepts the links can be removed.
It would look better if the two tables were perfectly lined up, instead of the second one being wider.
Ref 25; first name is Jeff to go with the last name you've got.

Courcelles 04:09, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think a citation is needed for the 24th draft as it is a easily verifiable fact that is unlikely to be challenged. I tried to tweak the table but I can't get them to line up perfectly. Everything else fixed.—Chris!c/t 03:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support No big deal on the table widths. Courcelles 04:07, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: "Three other players from this draft, 8th pick Geoff Petrie, 5th pick Sam Lacey and 7th pick John Johnson, have also been selected to at least one All-Star Game." earlier you spell them out (fifth, seventh) so it should be here too. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 02:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done. — Martin tamb (talk) 14:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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