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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 User:Matthewedwards 03:15, 20 October 2008 [1].

List of awards and nominations received by David Bowie[edit]

I have recently re-written this list and split it from the main David Bowie article. I think the article could be good enough to be a Featured List. --JD554 (talk) 10:55, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Otherwise sources look good, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I did struggle with that one. I have a source here which is far more reliable, unfortunately it doesn't give the year he won it. Everyhit seemed to be the best of a bad lot that included the year. Would the yearless source be preferred? --JD554 (talk) 14:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That I can't answer for you. Anything in a printed source? Ealdgyth - Talk 13:40, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not that I have access to, so I've used a combination of the two which hopefully will suffice. --JD554 (talk) 14:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - fails Cr 1, 2, and 5
  • This is a list of awards and nominations received by David Bowie, the British musician and actor. - FL's are discouraged to begin with "This is a list of ___" Could be Davide Bowie is a British musician and actor.
  • This is a list of awards and nominations received by David Bowie, the British musician and actor. He began his singing career under the name David Bowie in 1966 and won his first award in 1969 when he won an Ivor Novello Award for the song "Space Oddity". - makes no sense saying "began under the name David Bowie" since you didn't say his real name (David Jones) earlier.
  • He did not receive any more music awards or nominations until the early 1980s. He has since won many awards for his music, including two BRIT Awards, two Grammy Awards and three MTV Video Music Awards. - to weasley, you need to be more specific.
  • He has also had a long and innovative presence on the Internet which led to his being awarded a lifetime achievement Webby Award in 2007. - there has to be more to it than just being an internet personality.
  • This list is not like other awards/noms lists, see List of awards and nominations received by Paul Kelly (a recent promoted FL).--SRX 01:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've made changes which I hope address your concerns. --JD554 (talk) 09:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Before I re-review the list again, listing every album/work is a big no-no, clutters the lead.--SRX 21:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I thought and I thought it looked ugly. I was going by the example you provided above. So which should it be? --JD554 (talk) 11:14, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you have to say for what work he was nominated for, it helps the reader understand and it will increase the size of the lead and follow other FL's.--SRX 13:38, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Based on the above comments and specifically because every single item is listed in the lead. It looks really, really bad; I can't fathom why it was decided to do that. Gary King (talk) 21:11, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I decided to do it because that's how it was in the example given by SrX above. I've removed the lists and agree that it looks an awful lot better. --JD554 (talk) 04:59, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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