Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Brotherhood episodes/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 07:14, 11 August 2008 [1].

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List of Brotherhood episodes

I've been working on this list for quite some time and I think it qualifies.

I've decided to color code the seasons with various shades of dark green instead of the color of the DVD box sets for a number of reasons:

• Only the first season has been released on DVD (pictured); it's both black and white (to represent the duality of the brothers and the show, no less).
• The show is about Irish-Americans and Irish people and is very, very bleak; as such I think various shades of dark green suits the show perfectly.
• It's really cool.–FunkyVoltron ^talk 12:49, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 18:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

• Comments
  • "The following is a list of episodes for Brotherhood..." - avoid - tell me about the show - I know nothing. So, "Brotherhood is a ..." followed by " As of July 2008 there have been x episodes..." etc.
  • First para in lead is real choppy so look to improve the flow.
  • Image caption is a fragment so no need for a full stop.
  • Why is 21 in bold?
  • 10->ten.
  • "As of July 31, 2008, 21 episodes of Brotherhood have aired. The first season consists of 10 episodes; the second season consists of 11 episodes. All the episodes are approximately 50 minutes long. The episode titles are references to religious texts for the first season and Bob Dylan lyrics for the second season. The referenced text is written in italics below the title (for the bible references, the King James Version is used).[4]" - really choppy again. flow some of the sentences together so you have sentences with more than six or seven words in them.
  • Move the info about the referenced text to the end of the lead.
  • Move the synopsis of the overall plot up to the top of the lead.
  • "brothers, who hails from " - who hail from.
  • Not sure if a season 3 section is required, but not that bothered either way - you've already mentioned it in the lead.
  • Mention prospective season 2 DVD release in the lead.
  • Personal thing but I'd consider indenting the quotes/sayings in italics, just by one colon.
  • "save in his own country, and in his own house.'" - spare apostrophe.
  • I like the colour scheme but the different colours are very close, so perhaps consider making them more different?
  • Current thoughts suggest to not wikilink all those dates.
  • Category:Lists of television series episodes is unnecessary as it's a supercategory of the other two.
• The Rambling Man (talk) 17:38, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the review. Tried to address as many of these concerns as I could. I've looked at other featured list of television episodes (List of 30 Rock episodes, List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes, List of Lost episodes) and they all have the total episode number in bold and uses an opening sentence similar to mine. So I'll keep that.–FunkyVoltron ^talk 14:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
    • About the opening sentence - times have changed here and we'd rather see an imaginative opening sentence rather than just "The following is a list of..." - FA's don't start "The following is an article about..." so why should FL's start that way? The Rambling Man (talk) 14:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
      • Oh, I see. How about now?–FunkyVoltron ^talk 15:04, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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