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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 15:35, 14 June 2010 [1].

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Nominator(s): Jimknut (talk) 17:21, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because M*A*S*H is generally acknowledged to be an important television series as well as a popular one. It therefore warrants an excellent episode list. I believe that all of the featured list criteria has been met and would now like to see the article moved up to featured list status. Jimknut (talk) 17:21, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 16:50, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments (wow, you scared them off alright!!)
  • Gee, I didn't mean to! I thought there may have been plenty of M*A*S*H fans out there in Wikiland.
  • "The series was produced by 20th Century Fox Television for the CBS network. It premiered on..." merge these two.
    • Merged.
  • "were retained and eventually became permanent cast members..." eventually? when?
    • The seasons that Klinger and Father Mulcahy became regular cast members have been added.
  • Sorry to be a pain but could you put a timezone on your "Timeslot"?
    • I put in ETZ. Okay?
  • Estimated Audience->Estimated audience.
    • Changed.
  • Does N/A mean that the final episode wasn't released on DVD in region 2?
    • Changed to "not released"
  • Title, you seem to have decided that "The.." shouldn't sort as T. Any reason? Same for "A ...". Maybe it's just my personal preference, but I would prefer these to sort in traditional alphabetical order rather than forcing them.
    • I've left things alone for now. Traditional alphebetical order lists titles such as "The Trail of Henry Blake" and "A Smattering of Intelligence" as, respectively,"Trail of Henry Blake, The" and "Smattering of Intelligence, A". Do you want them that way? If so, then should I change the names of the writer and directors as well? (i.e. "Alan Alda" changed to "Alda, Alan".) I'm presuming that you're not suggesting that "The Trial of Henry Blake" files under "T", as this has never been the proper or traditional way to alphabetize a list.
  • Some notes in parentheses are no italics, while most are, why?
  • Changed — italics removed.
  • "Lt.Col. " should there be a space between Lt. and Col.?
  • Corrected.
  • "David Isaacs (writer)," not sure why there's a pipe there.
    • Fixed.
  • Ref 7, don't like the leading zero in 09 in the date.
    • Fixed. (Its now ref 9)
  • Also, Los Angeles Times is a work, not a publisher.
    • Changed to latimes.com, which seems to be the online publisher
  • What makes www.bestcareanywhere.net a WP:RS?
    • The author of this site derived his information from another site by someone named Doug Krause. I've now changed the ref to Krause's site, which is more accessable. The information I derived from his site are the broadcast dates and production codes (info that is oddly missing from the the books by Kalter and Reiss). Krause's information corresponds with the DVD releases of the series, so he seems to be reliable.
  • Ref 76, spelling of indigenous.
    • Spelling corrected.
  • Is the second book really called "of M*A*S*H..."?
    • No, it isn't. My mistake, now corrected.
  • Trivia quizzes ought not form part of finest works' external links.
    • This was a holdover from the previous incarnation of the episode guide. I left it in and planned to keep it there (mainly out of respect for the previous editor). However, based on your comment, I have now removed it.

The Rambling Man (talk) 17:08, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Currently, my only problem with the list is that all of the dates throughout the list use the 'Month Day, Year' format, but the references at the bottom use the 'Day Month Year' format. Consistency would be nice, preferably in the 'Month Day, Year' format since it is an article about an American program. --Another Believer (Talk) 23:40, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MOS says consistency within the article and consistency within the refs, but not necessarily consistency across both. However, to save someone a dull job, I've script-changed the ref dates to be mdy throughout, hope Jimknut doesn't mind and hope Another Believer can revisit to show support or other comments. Cool. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:28, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No, Rambling Man, I don't mind at all! Thanks. Jimknut (talk) 16:28, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the assistance, The Rambling Man. While I do not conduct FLC assessments often, my concern has been resolved and the list looks good to me so I'd like to offer my support assuming the concerns of other reviewers have also been addressed. --Another Believer (Talk) 17:07, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Mostly a very good list, I just have one irk: You use ETZ for the timeslots when it should probably just be ET. I'd prefer EST but I know that's not technically right; change it and I'll support. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 19:43, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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