Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Tampa Bay Rays seasons

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 User:Matthewedwards 03:58, 20 October 2008 [1].

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Tampa Bay Rays seasons

I based the format of the article off of Boston Red Sox seasons which has FL status. All references are reliable, and featured list criteria appears to be meet. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 22:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

• Support - Looks good, but would it not be better to have a general reference for the season statistics. Sunderland06 (talk) 01:12, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Sources look good. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 02:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
• Fully support the avoidance of concealed year-in-X links—excellent. But why not exclude "the" from the blue? Also, "the 1998 baseball season" halfway through made me wonder whether the previous ones weren't baseball seasons. I'd remove "baseball" as assumed by now. If I were the nominator, I'd link only the first "year-season", which happens to be 1998, and let it stand out as the gateway into all of its siblings. That way, the lead would be less of a sea of blue. The third alternative would be one that is currently under discussion at MOSNUM: not linking these at all in the main text, but listing them in a "See also" section, where they're nicely centralised and prominent. I see an autoformatted date; these are deprecated now. Tony (talk) 11:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Resolved comments from RyanCross

Comments from RyanCross:

• Link MLB.com in reference #1.

Done --Mr.crabby (Talk) 22:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

• Question: Why is the publisher for reference 4 italicized while the publisher for reference 6 is not? They are the both from the same publisher anyway (Baseball-Reference).

Re-formatted all references to be italicized and linked. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 22:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

– RyanCross (talk) 02:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

More...

• Delink publishers in references 2, 3, 5, and 6 – no need to overlink reference publishers. linking only once when the word is mentioned is enough.

– RyanCross (talk) 23:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Done --Mr.crabby (Talk) 02:22, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

• Support – Looks like it meets featured list criteria from here. Well done, – RyanCross (talk) 04:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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