Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of human characters in Sesame Street/archive1

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 Dabomb87 22:22, 22 May 2011 [1].

List of human characters in Sesame Street[edit]

Featured list candidates/List of human characters in Sesame Street/archive1

Nominator(s): Christine (talk) 13:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because it is a high-quality list with lots of good research. I've worked hard at making this list informative and fun to read, kinda like The Show itself. Christine (talk) 13:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Restarting nomination, previous comments can be seen here. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:27, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support like I did before.--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫T 09:35, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - what does a "blank" cell mean in the Actor column? The Rambling Man (talk) 20:09, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It means that no source was found about who played the particular character. The source for Buddy and Jim, for example, is the Old School DVD, which does not list the actors' names. In other words, there's a source for the characters, but nothing was found that stated who played them. Clear as mud? Christine (talk) 22:24, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Is it within policy to cite the closing credits of an episode? On Fridays, NET aired the show's credits, listing Buddy, Jim and Jennie's names. Her official site also mentions the appearances. In other news, Buddy and Jim, Larry and Phyllis are referenced. -- Zanimum (talk) 16:30, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support – All of my comments were addressed before the restart. Perhaps dashes for the blank actor cells should be considered if that is thought to be a problem, but I can't get too fussy about it. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 19:13, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If I were a reader, a dash would suggest to me it was unknown, like the test pilot Gordon. Not sure. -- Zanimum (talk) 16:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support, but I do wonder about some of the one-offs. Listed are Pirate Captain (Tina Fey), Letter A (Nicole Sullivan), and Letter Z (Stephen Colbert). Each were just a one-off character, meant to give the guest a bit more to do than a short segment. Other recent appearances include Kyra Sedgwick as Camouflage Carla, David Alan Grier as Aladdin, and Seth Green as Vinny the deliveryman; none are listed. But do we really need these "characters" on the main list? Edith Ann, Wanda Falbo, yes, because they appeared multiple times, but otherwise? -- Zanimum (talk) 16:30, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to put the dashes in for the unknowns; will do in the next 24 hours. Re: the one-offs; for the most part, I didn't include them, but went ahead with Colbert and Sullivan because they were included in the Gikow book. That's why Tina Fey's Pirate Captain is in the list, another one-off but which had two pages devoted to her appearance in the book. It follows the policy for inclusion that has been developed for this and other Sesame Street lists: characters and information in books are included first, before characters mentioned in webpages and in primary sources like DVDs and video clips. I'm fine with expanding the criteria to only include characters that appear multiple times, but the problem with that is that the show often shows the same short film or animation several times in several episodes. Perhaps we can expand the inclusion to only include characters that have been in several different segments over a period of time. I'm fine with whatever the reviewers think. Christine (talk) 22:33, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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