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The list was promoted by Crisco 1492 07:12, 20 April 2014 [1].

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Nominator(s): Toa Nidhiki05 03:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this list for featured article because I've worked on this article from scratch, and I am satisfied that it meets FL standards and think it shows a good representation of the progression of football into a pass-oriented league. This article is a list of the NFL's season-by-season receiving yards leaders - that is, the players who had recorded the most yardage from forward passes. The list also notes which players are current players, which ones are in the Hall of Fame, and which ones received a major league award. Toa Nidhiki05 03:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment - Why is it that the only references in the list refer to the first three years? The rest of the years (1935-2013) aren't referenced, and if they are, its unclear. The whole "Other receiving yards leaders" doesn't appear to have a single citation. I haven't read the article or anything just noticed this and thought I'd bring it up. CrowzRSA 04:55, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Any information that is not directly cited in the article is cited in the general references section. The first three years are cited specifically because the league did not set a number of games for each team to play, so some teams played more games than others. Toa Nidhiki05 14:25, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't intuitive to me that "Games" was not the number of games played by the players, but the number of games their team played (players miss games due to injuries, coaching decisions, etc). I know its in the key, but I would have expected it to be the games actually played like in FL List of National Basketball Association season scoring leaders (yeah, it's basketball and not football, but its a sport).—Bagumba (talk) 05:50, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I understand what you mean here... I'll toy around with putting a note on each player that played less than the number of games in a season. Toa Nidhiki05 22:20, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I would alternatively suggest that the historical number of games in an NFL season can be described in the lead, and leave the list to the player's actual number of games.—Bagumba (talk) 22:34, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've modified it per your request. Toa Nidhiki05 03:54, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Striking my resolved comments. Content of the Games column is fine now. I don't plan on doing a more thorough review at this time, but it looks promising. Good luck.—Bagumba (talk)
  • Support (having stumbled here from my FLC discussion page). Incredibly meticulously referenced throughout, most impressive. Only a couple minor points: (1) Not sure why the Notes section then says in bold below it Notes and Footnotes; both could be removed with just the main subsection header remaining. (2) General references sect should just be renamed References, per WP:LAYOUT. Otherwise, very very well done! — Cirt (talk) 02:35, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've fixed the two errors now - thanks for the support! Toa Nidhiki05 03:40, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're most welcome, — Cirt (talk) 05:47, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I see no problems with the list. Aureez (Talk) 12:11, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - the list looks good now that the ref issue has been addressed. Only wish Walter Payton made the list :( CrowzRSA 03:37, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 12:24, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose mainly on prose issues
  • " for four consecutive seasons from 1941 to 1945." that's five seasons. This is mentioned in the lead as well.
  • "over time - since the" should be an en-dash.
  • "...into the National Football League..." use the abbreviation.
  • " amount of receiving yardage the receiving yards" grim. Remove "amount of" at least, and try to avoid "receiving yardage... receiving yards" repetition. That sentence has "receiving" four times....
  • "has had the receiving yards leader" -> "saw the receiving..."
  • "The player who led the league in receiving yards the most times was Don Hutson" Why "The player who..."? Why not just "Don Hutson led ..."?
  • "six seasons leading the league in receiving" do you need to repeat the feat? It's obvious that you're talking about the same kind of record.
  • "The Green Bay Packers have had a player" why not "A Green Bay Packers player has..."?
  • No point at all in repeating ref 8 so many times. Just have it as a general reference.
  • Should Year be Season in the table heading?
  • What is AAFC? Not mentioned in the lead.
  • Don't need NFL as a category because you have NFL records and achievements.
  • Don't need American football-related lists because you have NFL lists.

The Rambling Man (talk) 08:15, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All these should be fixed now. Toa Nidhiki05 00:35, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Comment The first man on the list is the only entry with no footnote. Why is that? Other than that one issue, it looks great to me. Nice work! --Coemgenus (talk) 12:51, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That was an accidental mistake, I must have removed it when I was fixing an issue noted here. It's back now. Toa Nidhiki05 00:30, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Great, changed to support. --Coemgenus (talk) 11:56, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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