Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Italian football champions

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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 11 days, 5 support, 0 oppose. Promote. Juhachi 22:15, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Having already undergone a brief peer review, this is pretty much a self-nom. The structure of this article is heavily based on three existing featured lists, those of the football champions of Denmark, Sweden and England. There are some dandy photos of the teams from "way back when" and I believe the article currently has the qualities of a featured list. I look forward to hearing the opinion of the community! The Rambling Man 16:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Support A well-constructed article which seems to meet all the necessary requirements, nice one! Just one slight copy-editing issue - I don't believe there should be a comma in the parenthetical comment "(each team played the other eight, twice)" ChrisTheDude 07:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

  Thanks, I've removed the text in parentheses because the information is given further into the article. I don't like text in parentheses in any case! The Rambling Man 07:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Support - Well-written, concise, useful, nicely illustrated. --Dweller 08:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Support Just as good, or if not better, than those other featured lists you mentioned. I'm wandering about one thing though, couldn't you get the info for the top scorers for the earlier seasons? Mattythewhite 18:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

  Yes, I'd love to do that, but as yet I am unable to find citeable records of the capocannonieri for the early days... I'll keep trying but, in the meantime, no dice I'm afraid. Thanks for your support! The Rambling Man 18:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

*Comment, the rows that say "Postponed due to xxx War" would probably look better with a colspan acros the whole table. Not sure, though, it just seems logical to me, -Phoenix 22:45, 23 April 2007 (UTC)<

I'll go ahead and do this myself. -Phoenix 02:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Y Done y'all, yeahh baby. Support, by the way. -Phoenix 02:58, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Hey Phoenix, thanks for doing that, I had tried to do it myself curiously but succeeded in wrecking the table completely, so thanks for teaching me a lesson in colspans! The Rambling Man 07:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Fix needed I copyedited the lead myself, being bold, where the language was unnecessarily obfuscatory. I think it reads clearer now. However, the lead itself needs to be expanded to comply with WP:LEAD. The lead should probably be expanded to include a brief introduction to the history of the championship, maybe a sentance or two. (The history section mentions the founding of Serie A; perhaps some attention in the lead to this event). Also, it would be nice if the lead mentioned superlative cases, such as which team has won the most titles. Once fixed, I will lend my support. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 03:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

  I think I've expanded the lead a bit further, three paragraphs seems to fit the bill with WP:LEAD, I've added the inaugural winners, the current holders and the record holders, and noted when the tournament became Serie A/B. I hope this is sufficient to gain your support, but if not, please let me know what I can further do to improve the article. Thanks! The Rambling Man 07:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Support, although would it be possible to add some more references to the prose (especially some of the stats)? Daniel Bryant 09:52, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

  Y DoneI've added a whole bunch of references now so hopefully your support is even stronger! The Rambling Man 11:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

  Yep :) Daniel Bryant 07:26, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

• Support Lead looks much better. I made a few more changes to it myself to clean up the language and make it more clear. I hope you don't mind. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 18:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)