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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 not promoted by Giants2008 17:25, 16 October 2012 [1].

Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record edit

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Nominator(s): SchroCat (^ • @) 17:41, 20 August 2012 (UTC) and CassiantoTalk 19:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC) [reply]

Known for his clumsy character Inspector Clouseau and his many comic roles on radio, Peter Sellers was one of the best known comedians of his generation. This record of his professional work has recently been split away from the main Sellers page as it was out of place there and not a full reflection of his work. A number of very good people have assisted in specific areas, including Rothorpe, who re-worked the lead, RexxS, who advised on the table format, Br'er Rabbit, who cleaned up the citations and J Milburn who looked at the images. We are now nominating this for featured list status because we believe that it now satisfies the criteria. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 17:41, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from TBrandley (talk) 15:23, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Image can use a better caption. Is he noted for anything, etc.
  • Tables don't need to be aligned to the top
  • Align references to the center
  • Notes and Footnotes should be actual sub-sections, per MOS:ACCESS

TBrandley 03:38, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, TB. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 08:31, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks TB. I knew if I came knocking you would give some good comments. -- CassiantoTalk 08:37, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! TBrandley 15:23, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 22:11, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments I think this article still has some way to go before it reaches FL quality. I've gone over and it and made some changes here; please revert if I've made things worse.
  • I'm not sure that the Role columns really benefit from being sortable.
  • I must admit that I've found it useful in the past on a couple of articles. Would you mind if we left it like that unless someone else also comments on it? - SchroCat (^ • @) 12:18, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is there any reason why "The Last Goon Show of All" is sorting under G rather than L?
  • For The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, was Sellers nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film award, or was the nomination for the film itself?
  • Additional note to clarify - SchroCat (^ • @) 12:18, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • It may just be my laptop or something, but the Advertisements heading isn't showing at all. Anyone else experiencing this?
  • I'm seeing it OK on IE and Google Chrome. Anyone else having issues? - SchroCat (^ • @) 12:18, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Safari also OK. -- CassiantoTalk 12:26, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's most probably because 1000 Doors is using Firefox with the "Adblock-Plus (ABP)" addon. I can reproduce the problem where ABP hides the heading "Advertisments". If you disable ABP for enwp you won't have those sort of problems again. --RexxS (talk) 17:10, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 11:53, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • If you add a row that acts as a key to the bottom of a sortable table (like ' "—" denotes releases that did not chart.' in Discography), you also need to add class="sortbottom" to that row to prevent the bottom row from being sorted with the rest of the table. I've applied the fix for you. --RexxS (talk) 17:18, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Many thanks ATD: your time and thoughts are much appreciated. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 12:18, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank heavens for RexxS! Your input here is much appreciated as always. -- CassiantoTalk 19:45, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • The biggest sticking point for me is the lead – it's incredibly brief. By my count it's about 860 characters long, which wouldn't qualify it for DYK, let alone FL. Obviously it needs to cover the major aspects of the rest of the list, but it doesn't mention Sellers's career on either stage or record at all. I see that on the talk page it was decided that there wasn't much of a need to discuss Sellers himself, but personally I'd disagree with that – per WP:Summary style, I would expect the lead of this article to give more background on who Peter Sellers was.
  • Now extended. We feel this word count now mirrors others at FL in terms of quantity. -- CassiantoTalk 12:25, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's certainly a significant improvement, but I do still feel that the lead needs to at least mention Sellers's careers on stage and record, since obviously that comprises part of the scope of the list. Just a short sentence on each would probably suffice for me personally. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 22:11, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks ATD: it's now been tweaked to include that missing information. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 22:51, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Wow; pretty solid. TBrandley 21:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks Tate, I'm looking forward to your next FAC so I can return this favour. -- CassiantoTalk 23:53, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks! Your in luck, "Nightswimming" will be at FAC soon. Also, some FLCs also very soon. Cheers, TBrandley 05:46, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 12:14, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • "Sellers's" argh. I had hoped that BritEng could maintain its dignity and just stick with Sellers'...
    • This is a point that was raised on the Peter Sellers article during Peer Review and the consensus from those with a better grammatical grasp advised me to change them all to s's as the correct term—see Talk:Peter Sellers/Archive 2#Sellers's for a further discussion after the changes. I'm unsure either way - my graps of the apostrophe use is awful. - SchroCat (^ • @) 07:56, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not sure for English Wikipedia you really need to link a term so common as "radio".
    • True - now removed
  • "in a nuber of " ummm.
  • "Year" heading should be "Year(s)" shouldn't it, for those with a range?
  • "Orders are Orders" -> "Orders Are Orders".
  • Any reason why you don't link BAFTA Award for Best British Actor? There are other nominations you don't link either... what's the deal with that?
    • Only my idiocy! Now corrected - SchroCat (^ • @) 08:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "What's New Pussycat" ->"What's New Pussycat?"
  • "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!" -> "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas"
  • "Waltz of the Toreadors" -> "The Waltz of the Toreadors".
  • "London Film Critics Circle Award" should have a apostrophe > "Critics'"
    • Now suitably apostrophied - SchroCat (^ • @) 08:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Some notes start with capital letters, some don't.
    • No longer! All now capitalised - SchroCat (^ • @) 08:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Harry Seacombe" no a in surname required.

The Rambling Man (talk) 07:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi RM, Thanks very much for your comments. I think I've addressed them all fully, but if I've missed anything, or there is something else you spot, then please let us know. Thanks again - SchroCat (^ • @) 08:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • These are not original releases by Sellers, but re-hashed excerpts put out by third parties, the contents of which are covered in Sellers's original recordings. As such they really shouldn't be on the list at all. - SchroCat (^ • @) 06:04, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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