There appears to be support for a second Featured Topic Drive: the
history of the National Hockey League. At the start of this drive, the parent article is in fairly rough shape. To encompass the full history of the league will require several child articles be created.
Any questions? Just leave them on the talk page.
NHL history
Old scope
The scope of FTD#2 is to bring articles directly related to the history of the NHL to GA status or better, preferably FA status.
The main article for this FTD will be
History of the National Hockey League. This article will be required to be FA status, which may present a challenge given the creation of child articles. Alternatively,
National Hockey League could potentially serve as the main article.
At project creation, I have identified eight articles that could make up the core topic:
Identify articles that fit within the scope of this FTD
Identify how to split
History of the National Hockey League. As of right now, I am assuming multiple articles will be necessary, given the 100+ year period
Hockey Chronicle (2003 edition) by Morgan Hughes, Stan and Shirley Fischler, Joseph Romain, and James Duplacey. Small articles about everything hockey since 1900, including more detail on each year of the NHL through 2002-03.
Note: I have the 2007 edition-
Wafulz (
talk) 16:26, 11 May 2008 (UTC)reply
History of the Stanley Cup (not sure of correct title), 1960's. Available at my university library, as well as several other books.
Lords of the Rink by John Chi-Kit Wong. Chronicles the start of hockey, going form 1870's through to the 1930s. Includes original sources, such as NHA charter, Stanely Cup rules presented by Lord Stanley, etc.* Canuck Legends. Details the Vancouver Canucks.
After the Applause by Gordie Howe. Post-hockey lives of Howe, Hull, Richard, etc. Also details playing career.
Kaiser matias (
talk) 20:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)reply
FT Criteria
The articles should have a clear similarity with each other, should be in the same category, and should be grouped under one collective name that does not arbitrarily exclude items.
All articles in the series should be linked together, preferably using a template.
There should not be any obvious gap (missing or stub article) in the topic.
Each article should be of a good quality, including references. Not all articles need be
featured class, but several should be. The rest must be all
Good Articles or
A class except where achieving such a class is impossible. Expect an audit of all articles not Featured or Good status to ensure that they are of a quality consistent enough with the other topics.
Recommendations
As well as these requirements, the following are recommended:
The structure of the articles should be similar, having the same section titles and order where possible.
The articles should use a common
infobox when reasonable.
The topic should not be too big. There is no maximum number of articles, but as a rule-of-thumb any topic with more than 20 entries can likely be broken down into sub-topics. For example,
Science fiction movies would be too large a topic, but
Star Trek movies would be good. This rule-of-thumb does not apply to items in a series. For example, every article from
1st Canadian Parliament to
39th Canadian Parliament could be included in one topic.