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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 15:36, 14 February 2008.

Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 1)[edit]

Self-nom I am nominating this list for FL status because I think it is complete and encyclopaedic. The first season of the popular Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation depicts a group of schoolkids growing up and dealing with typical teenage issues. The episode synopses and lead information regarding timeslots and scheduling are taken from the List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes, though they are expanded on. It also contains information regarding DVD release dates, awards and its reception, and I think is now of similar standard to the Featured List season pages of The Simpsons, which has much the same information.

I have previously gotten List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes to Featured List status, and am now working through each individual season page. I was going to try to get the page to Good Article status first, and had nominated it, but per the Wikipedia:Good article criteria, lists are not GA candidates and it says to bring them straight here. I'm also working on the other seasons of the show, and if all goes well with this nomination, I will try to get those to FL status too. Then the List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes can be edited to be more like List of The Simpsons episodes and List of Smallville episodes, rather than repeating the information in two places. -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 03:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Where did you find all those "Title is taken from..." notes from? Why the other 3 titles don't have similar notes? They weren't taken from anywhere or you just don't know?--Crzycheetah 05:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, there are plenty of sources around (including the Official guidebook) that say all titles from season 2 onward are taken from 80s song titles (although I haven't found anywhere specifically naming each song). Somewhere in the Wayback of the official site, it mentions that some of the 1st season episodes were named after 80s songs (again, nothing specific). I guess it's original research so I'll go on and delete it. :D -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 06:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Heh, tv.com gives some ::slinks away quietly:: -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 06:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ok, that's better. Could you fix ref #30? Plus, whenever there are 2 or more footnotes at the end of the sentence, they usually are in order, i.e. [2][3] and not [3][1]. There are several such instances throught the prose part.--Crzycheetah 07:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Done -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 00:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional support All right, looks much better. Three more minor concerns about references are found, though. First, no imdb links should be referenced(one of the link in #28), second, The NY Times article at #34 asks for a login info(I think it should be noted in the reference), and third, ref #6 opens up an IPod store software installed in one's PC. This IPod store link was weird, really. I think it should be mentioned that by clicking at that link an IPod store software opens. The list itself looks great! --Crzycheetah 23:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support with an echo of what Crzycheetah said. Nice work. Cliff smith (talk) 00:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  DoneThanks guys. I removed the IMDB reference and put notes in the two other links that NYT requires a login (I don't know why this is. I have no NYT account and have never needed to login to access anything of theirs), and the other requires the iTunes software. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 23:12, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved stuff from The Rambling Man (talk) 09:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose - I noticed this was falling by the wayside so I'll add some comments to get it up and running again...
    • "teen life" - okay, I can take teen drama but here can we use English (traditional version) and say teenager?!
      •  Done, I only said "teen life" for consistency with "teen drama", which is the title of an article. (Perhaps that should be moved to teenage drama...
    • "(based on registration) " - what does this mean and why is it in parentheses?
      •  Done Because someone in the UK, France, wherever could theoreticly download episodes as long as they had an account registered in Canada or America. (And I saw it on one of the FA Lost pages). Changed it to "Registered users of the Canadian and American iTunes stores are also able purchase and download the season for playback on home computers and certain iPods."
    • "first season had earned itself 365,000 viewers" - what's the scope of this? In Canada, worldwide?
      •  Done - Canadian
    • Award nominations in the lead aren't cited.
      • I thought lead sections didn't need citations, unless it was quoting speech? I will put them in though if you do think it's necessary.
        • No, you're right, they don't need citations but you've got 8 citations there already so I'd suggest to be consistent you ought to cite the award nominations sentence! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
          •  Done - I guess when you put it like that..!
    • "high-achiever and lonely" reads strangely, perhaps high achieving yet lonely?
      •  Done
    • Throughout the kid's descriptions, are they backed up by the citations or are they your impression of what the kids represented?
    • Last paragraph of Cast is uncited (and a bit of a nightmare to read with so many wikilnks).
      • Well I could add a {{cite episode}}, but isn't this rather like plot, it's verifiable by watching the episode and seeing the characters (and also through the end credits)? I'm always a little unsure over something like this. I guess I could un-wikilink the actors and characters of the people that aren't regulars, but if an article exists, I don't see a problem. Suggestions?
        • Yeah, I get a little sniffy sometimes about these citations. I'd leave it as it is, no big deal. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Lead says this season was "A critical and popular success," while opening Reception sentence says "Degrassi: The Next Generation received mixed reviews about its first season." which seem to almost contradict each other.
      •  Done - removed that sentence from lead.
    • What is [The N] ?
      • I couldn't really explain it because it was in the middle of the quote. What made it worse was that the original said Noggin, as back then The N was regarded more as a block of programming on Noggin, rather than a sepatate network sharing Noggin's channel, which it actually is, much like Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon. Instead, in the lead, I put "In America, it was broadcast on The N, a digital cable network aimed at teenagers and young adults."
    • Does Canadian English support "criticised" simultaneously with "program"?
      •  Done
    • In prose, I'd write "18—49" as 18 to 49...
      •  Done
    • "Five episodes were given six awards " in total or per episode?
      •  Done - in total.
    • In episode table you have a Series # column, shouldn't this really be an Episode # column?
      • Depends. The season article for season two also uses series #, showing that they're episodes 16 to 28. I guess I could put in another column to have both series# and season#?
        • Well I kind of understand but the list is a list of episodes and so I thought episode # was more intuitive. I suppose at the moment it means "#X in the series" - episode would remove that ambiguity in my opinion. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Check references for page ranges - they should all be separated with en-dash.
 Done
  • Support - much better than when I first found it, well done. I'll get with season 2 now! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks! I think though, you'll find much the same issues there as you did here! -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 10:00, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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