Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/January 2008
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The list was promoted 04:08, 31 January 2008.
It's been a while since my last edits, so feel free to pick it apart. Modeled after previous featured county lists. Geraldk (talk) 00:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd like the county seat links to link to the proper political unit, instead of a disambiguation page. New York is notorious for that crap. :P I see at least Lockport, Schoharie, Riverhead, Owego, Lake George, and Lyons with brownlinks, but some of the bluelinks might be leading to larger disambig pages as well. --Golbez (talk) 02:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done, or at least I'm pretty sure I got all of 'em. Geraldk (talk) 03:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Shouldn't the "formed from" for Bronx simply say "Westchester County"? Also, the "one of the original 12" statements on 'formed from' are not all identical, some say the colony, some don't, etc. Finally, three of the boroughs have a county seat named, whereas the others just have the parenthetical. Are these neighborhoods/postal names? And why do the other two (Kings and New York) lack these? I think that's about it. --Golbez (talk) 22:17, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed em all. As to the last bit, it also disagreed with the lead, which said that New York City is considered to be the county seat of all five boroughs, so I just put NYC as the seat and kept the borough in parentheses. Geraldk (talk) 22:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Shouldn't the "formed from" for Bronx simply say "Westchester County"? Also, the "one of the original 12" statements on 'formed from' are not all identical, some say the colony, some don't, etc. Finally, three of the boroughs have a county seat named, whereas the others just have the parenthetical. Are these neighborhoods/postal names? And why do the other two (Kings and New York) lack these? I think that's about it. --Golbez (talk) 22:17, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done, or at least I'm pretty sure I got all of 'em. Geraldk (talk) 03:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Great. Support! --Golbez (talk) 22:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support It's good to see you back, Geraldk. Job well done!--Crzycheetah 23:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Bronx County was formed from New York County (not Westchester), and the western half anyway had been in New York County for forty years. Also, Bronx County was formed in 1914, not 1912 (only the law was passed in 1912).--Pharos (talk) 08:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Good catch - both fixed now. Geraldk (talk) 14:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Looks good. I'd like it even better if the table of proposed counties included information about the date and status of the proposals. --Orlady (talk) 18:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Meets all the requirements. Good lead. Tompw (talk) (review) 19:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 15:35, 30 January 2008.
This page is modelled after Vanier Cup, which is also an FL. This page doesn't have much of a history section because there is a main article for the Grey Cup. All concerns and comments are welcome and will be addressed. -- Scorpion0422 03:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks good to me. I changed the % figures so that they were percentages rather than fractions of 1 (e.g. 33% rather than 0.33) and made one table sortable. Minor quibble: some of the dates have a comma between month and year, some don't - I suggest it's tidied up, one way or the other! BencherliteTalk 11:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Why do I feel that by the title of this list I should be able to tell whether Warren Moon won five or six Grey Cups by looking at the article. Similar thing with Doug Flutie. Is there an MVP of the game chosen. If so, should it be listed?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 21:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Were you perhaps looking for Grey Cup Most Valuable Player or Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian, both of which already have links at the end of the lead? BencherliteTalk 21:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Plus it's POV to list how many Cups certain players have won. What makes a player notable enough to be listed? And Bencherlite is correct, it is already linked. -- Scorpion0422 21:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Were you perhaps looking for Grey Cup Most Valuable Player or Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian, both of which already have links at the end of the lead? BencherliteTalk 21:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support It seems everything is there that needs to be.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I added a category, but other than that it looks good. Great work!
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The list was promoted 04:31, 30 January 2008.
This article seems to meet the FL criteria. Certainly as good as, if not better than Grade I listed buildings in Bristol (in my humble opinion). I can't see any issues here. -- Jza84 · (talk) 02:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeNeutralI don't think it meets the 1(a) criterion. Too many red linked and unlinked items in this list. By the way, the refs column should not be sortable.--Crzycheetah 08:33, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The refs columns isn't sortable. Do you mean the grid ref column? Having that sortable allows readers to see which structures are close to each other, but if there's an established convention that it shouldn't be sortable then of course we'll have to make it unsortable. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 13:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Everything is fine with the refs columns, I must've mixed up this list with another one I was looking at.--Crzycheetah 23:05, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All right, there is one more comment, there are several footnotes in the table that when clicked go to the Notes section where one can read the actual note. The problem is that there are several "A", "B' even "D" footnotes throughout the list while there's only one link per each footnote in the notes section. It's hard for me to explain this problem clearer. You may look at the List of Governors of Colorado to see that there are as many links in the notes section as there are footnotes in the table. This is not the case here. --Crzycheetah 21:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- With all due respect, I think that you are confusing footnotes with referencing. The "footnotes" in the example you quote are in fact citations. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 21:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- No, I am not confusing anything this time. I just have a hard time explaining my concern. *takes deep breath* Ok, do you see the reference #1(Manchester City Council) in this list that has "a" and "b" parts? I want footnotes such as "A" to have 1,2,3,4, etc parts because there are many "A" footnotes throughout the list. OR take "D" footnote, for example, you have it next to St Mark's Church, Worsley as well as next to St Anne's Church, Haughton Green, but the letter "D" in the "Notes" section takes the reader to the Church of St Peter, Churchgate's row. I want that the "Notes" section to have links to St Mark's Church, Worsley and St Anne's Church, Haughton Green's rows. Hope I explained this better, now.--Crzycheetah 22:25, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm struggling to understand too. If I think I understand what I think you mean, then this wouldn't work or make sense!... we must have crossed wires. Perhaps you can make the edit for us? If the consensus is against it, we can always revert. -- Jza84 · (talk) 22:32, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All right, I did some edits, but there are so many of them that have to be done. I'll try to do more later on, if you guys still have trouble doing it.--Crzycheetah 22:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Doing it is very easy. It's the purpose of doing it that's difficult to understand. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 01:35, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree. I don't think this is the right way to take the notes. I don't think I've ever seen this done before. -- Jza84 · (talk) 12:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, the citation are done this way(automatically, of course), why the notes should be different? It's easier for the reader to read the note and in one click get back to where he/she's been. --Crzycheetah 20:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmm, I understand the point that you're making now, but the implementation you suggest is not consistent with either the rest of the Notes section, or the way that the feature works in the References section. Is this your only remaining opposition to this article's FL listing? If so, then may I propose an alternative, more consistent solution? Or would I be wasting my time? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 22:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You do know that I didn't do the rest of the notes and that's why it's not consistent, right? Yes, this is my only concern. I am open to suggestions. I'd like to see your solution. --Crzycheetah 23:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- My suggestion is to use a visually consistent style of formatting throughout the article, as I have now done. Failing that, to fix the old style referencing templates like {{ref label}} and {note label}} to be consistent with the current referencing style. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 01:03, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- (←)That's the worst solution, IMO. Notes should be differentiated from the references. Now, it's impossible to know where the notes are and where the citations are when reading this article.--Crzycheetah 20:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not a bad solution, it's simply one you have a personal dislike for. It is quite common in articles to mix notes and references, and I see nothing wrong with it. But c'est la vie. You stick to using an incompatible mixture of the old and new citation templates if it makes you happy. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not entirely sure that this process of FL nomination is bring any constructive feedback or benefits for the article. I can point to much weaker lists that have FL status. Some of the reasons for opposition are not solid or based on any convention. I'm happy with the current system, though was with the previous system. The "a, b, c, 1, 2, 3" system was somewhat pointless and in my point of view, the worst "solution" to a problem that doesn't really exist. -- Jza84 · (talk) 21:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The current way of footnoting (combining notes and references) makes it hard for me to navigate this list; therefore, I believe it fails 1(f) criterion of WP:WIAFL that states "lists should be Well-constructed". I think it will benefit this list if the notes and references are separated.--Crzycheetah 00:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- This is a common practice across wikipedia. I haven't seen any complaints about this before and I have taken quite a few articles through FAC and FLC as well as reviewed quite a few articles at FAC. It is also a common academic practice. The point of footnotes is to provide further information, be it citations for verification or details not appropriate for the main text (or list, in this case). I don't see how this referencing system impedes navigation of the list. Awadewit
- The current way of footnoting (combining notes and references) makes it hard for me to navigate this list; therefore, I believe it fails 1(f) criterion of WP:WIAFL that states "lists should be Well-constructed". I think it will benefit this list if the notes and references are separated.--Crzycheetah 00:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not entirely sure that this process of FL nomination is bring any constructive feedback or benefits for the article. I can point to much weaker lists that have FL status. Some of the reasons for opposition are not solid or based on any convention. I'm happy with the current system, though was with the previous system. The "a, b, c, 1, 2, 3" system was somewhat pointless and in my point of view, the worst "solution" to a problem that doesn't really exist. -- Jza84 · (talk) 21:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not a bad solution, it's simply one you have a personal dislike for. It is quite common in articles to mix notes and references, and I see nothing wrong with it. But c'est la vie. You stick to using an incompatible mixture of the old and new citation templates if it makes you happy. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. In addition to the above (almost half the links are red), the lead does not, in my opinion, adequately summarise the list (criteria 2a). Of nine place headings, only Manchester is mentioned; Oldham is mentioned, although it does not appear anywhere on the list. There is an enormous white space at the head of the page (see 1f). There are also a lot of embedded external links to map sources for national grid refs. These print out in full. Chrisieboy (talk) 12:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've expanded the lead a little to hopefully better summarise the list.
- Do you mean the white space created by the table of contents? Surely the toc is necessary for 1f), in that it makes the list "easy to navigate"? It can be hidden in any event. Is there an established convention that lists ought not to contain a toc?--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 13:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. No, I meant the white space to the left of the twelve images before the lead begins. This only seems to manifest itself in 800x600 pixel resolution (my work computer) though. 1024x768 looks fine. Chrisieboy (talk) 13:57, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, thanks. I'll see what can be about about that. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 14:05, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Tested at 800x600 and should be OK at any scree resolution now. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 15:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Oldham appears in the lead to assert the distinction it has no Grade I listed buildings. Oldham won't have a section; the article is about Grade I listed buildings.... -- Jza84 · (talk) 01:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I note that all of Chrisieboy's concerns have been addressed, and that he was invited to confirm or deny that here. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 16:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I am sorry not to have replied sooner. This has certainly improved, although I note you have not addressed my comments on embedded external links. Are these really useful? They print out in full and somewhat spoil the layout. Chrisieboy (talk) 17:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for your reply. I may be misunderstanding you here, but what do you mean by "print out in full"? Do you mean printed on paper? Or are you talking about the little external link icon? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 17:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, I mean when printed on paper. Chrisieboy (talk) 17:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, at last I understand. Is it a requirement for featured lists that they can be printed on paper? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:00, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I suppose the link to Google Maps etc. is worth it! I am now happy to lend my support. In my view this is a credit to all concerned. Chrisieboy (talk) 02:17, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong oppose
unnecessary use of colored headers,I'm dubious about the necessity of subdivision, and you have wrapped the entire article inside a table because you were unable to properly distribute the images throughout to avoid link bunching (I assume, the table is still preposterous). On the other end, I really like the lead. Circeus (talk) 02:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- When is there ever a necessary use of coloured headers? From a techinical perspective it is necessary to wrap the entire aticle inside a table to achieve the desired layout consistently at all screen resolutions, as the thumbnails occupy a fixed number of pixels. Is there some rule against using a screen resolution independent layout? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 02:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Might also be worth pointing out here that the entire article is not wrapped inside a table, only those parts of it where the intention is to safely and consistently display a ribbon of pictures down the right hand side of the screen. If safety and consistency are "preposterous", well, the lunatics really have taken over the asylum. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 04:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree that pointing to relevant MOS pages would help here. Without them it's hard to decipher if these are personal preferences with which your opposing the article(!) -- Jza84 · (talk) 02:23, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: The strong oppose doesn't seem to have a basis here. That the table is "preposterous" - what does this mean? How do we act upon this? When does a table become preposterous?... Also, "Dubious" subdivision? The division is clear; according to administrative areas. How does this harm the article? -- Jza84 · (talk) 18:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It seems to me that the tables make the list more navigable. Although tables have their problems, I cannot think of a better layout for this page myself. Awadewit | talk 05:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CommentSupport - looks pretty good, but in addition to seconding concerns about the non-standard header colour, I've got a few suggestions.- Would an "architect" column be useful? See, for instance, listed buildings in Sheffield - in many other ways inferior, but the architect column adds useful additional information.
- It's a not a bad idea, but there are many of the buildings for which the architect is unknow, ie: the medieval buildings. Nev1 (talk) 21:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Why "In spite of Greater Manchester's Roman and medieval heritage, most of its listed buildings date from the Victorian and Edwardian periods"? It's not in spite of its Roman and mediaeval heritage, which is nothing out of the ordinary for a county, despite containing some superb Grade I buildings of these eras. The reason is simply that Manchester was a world-leading industrial city during the Victorian era.
- For the introduction, is there anything interesting to say about any particular listings? I would expect that, for instance the listing of the railway bridge over the River Irwell would have attracted significant coverage, and perhaps some debate - perhaps also some of the listings from the 1970s.
- Finally, on my rather low-resolution set-up, the fixed percentage width of the columns leads the grid reference external link icon to overlap the start of the ref(s) column. Could the grid ref column either be made a touch wider, or become a fixed width column, or have the column widths not set at all? Any of these should solve this glitch. Warofdreams talk 20:56, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If the column widths weren't set at all, then the columns wouldn't line up between tables, just like the Sheffield list you pointed out, which would look kinda scruffy I think. The %age size of the grid ref column could probably be increased a fraction to solve the problem with low resolution screens though.
- I don't understand your comment about "non-standard header colour". Can you point me towards the standard please?
- If an architect column was introduced then it would have to be at the expense of one of the other columns, and it would frequently be empty, as Nev1 pointed out. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 21:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- A wider column should solve the issue; incidentally, the column widths don't have to be set to line up the columns - see list of UK by-elections for an example.
- That article contains only one table though. This one has nine tables, one after the other. The only way to make the columns line up is to specify a column size. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:42, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- True; there are some advantages to using a single table, but that would remove the possibility of making it sortable. Warofdreams talk 11:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia:When to use tables suggests standardisation on class=wikitable wherever possible, and that class uses #f2f2f2 for its headers. Using a different colour implies that some additional information is being carried, as in (for example) the Template:S-start/doc series. Additionally, the darker the background colour, the more difficult it is for users with impaired sight to read the headers.
- While I've not investigated, it would appear likely that architects could be identified for more than half the buildings listed. Is that enough to make it worthwhile? I don't know, it's an idea which could be discussed on the talk page. If it would prove informative, then some reformatting to widen the table would be a better option than removing any existing columns. Warofdreams talk 22:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- A wider column should solve the issue; incidentally, the column widths don't have to be set to line up the columns - see list of UK by-elections for an example.
- OK, an update: the "in spite of" comment has been reworked and the column header colours and column widths have been addressed. The possibility of an architect column is under discussion, and its possible adoption is not a condition for my support - so I'm now happy to give that. I'm still hopeful that there may be some more information to add to the intro and if anyone could find a way of lining columns up while not having to use fixed widths, that'd be great. Warofdreams talk 11:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- After this discussion, we decided to keep the percentage widths in the tables in Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft, which became a WP:FL. Awadewit | talk 05:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning towards support This article is most definitely useful, in the sense that it brings together a list of articles in a coherent and interesting way; it is comprehensive as far as I am aware; it cites each entry using standard citation styles (WP:CITE); it is uncontroversial and stable; and it is well-constructed. It also has appropriate images and adheres to the MOS. The only improvements I can see that could be made are in the lead:
Although Greater Manchester has Roman and medieval heritage, most of its listed buildings date from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, and in particular the time of the Industrial Revolution. - Why mention the Roman and medieval heritage if the buildings from that period are not significant for this list?Greater Manchester has been described as "one of the classic areas of industrial and urban growth in Britain, the result of a combination of forces that came together in the 18th and 19th centuries: a phenomenal rise in population, the appearance of the specialist industrial town, a transport revolution, and weak local lordship" - Could we say described by who? Scholars, I hope?
- This already has a reference to bolster it (a book published by the Association for Industrial Archaeology), is it necessary to mention who said it in the text? Nev1 (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- This sounds a good idea to me; it makes quite a difference that this is from an authoritative source on the subject, rather than being the opinion of an individual or a municipal publication. Warofdreams talk 18:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- This already has a reference to bolster it (a book published by the Association for Industrial Archaeology), is it necessary to mention who said it in the text? Nev1 (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Grade I listed buildings in each borough are shown separately. - "shown" or "listed"?Manchester, the world's first industrialised city[6] and "the best Victorian city in England" - What does this quote really mean?Could the editors highlight a few of the most interesting buildings in the lead?
- This is an excellent addition - very interesting facts! Awadewit | talk 01:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have confidence that I will be able to support this list after a few clarifications and expansions are made to the lead. Awadewit | talk 05:38, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Some good suggestions, for which thanks. I think that they're all dealt with now apart from bolstering the reference you mentioned, which I'll leave for Nev1 to deal with. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've adjusted the sentence to make it clear that it's scholarly etc, I think it's enough, but please see for yourself. Nev1 (talk) 00:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It is, and I am happy to support this article now. Thanks for implementing the changes so swiftly! Awadewit | talk 01:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've adjusted the sentence to make it clear that it's scholarly etc, I think it's enough, but please see for yourself. Nev1 (talk) 00:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Some good suggestions, for which thanks. I think that they're all dealt with now apart from bolstering the reference you mentioned, which I'll leave for Nev1 to deal with. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments and Questions Support I think this is a useful way of bringing together these buildings, and I will probably be able to support soon, but a couple of comments and questions:
- I would agree with a couple of minor comments about the lead (eg I can't see the point of the Roman mention)
- The display is fine on my screen at various resolutions
- I'm not very familiar with the area but the ability to sort by location doesn't really help me to envisage which buildings are close to each other - but the grid refs do - deep breath - would a map showing the location of the buildings be possible?
- I'm not sure what the date of listing adds - these are often an accident of history & depend on whether the building was included in Pevsners books which were used as the original text for many of the listings.
- I agree, it may be a bit of a hassle to remove the column and ensure all the tables stay the right size, but I don't think the date listed column is necessary. Nev1 (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Does anyone have any ideas what to replace it with, if it were to be done? It gives us some extra space that we may as well use. The architect has previously been suggested. Nev1 (talk) 13:06, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, it may be a bit of a hassle to remove the column and ensure all the tables stay the right size, but I don't think the date listed column is necessary. Nev1 (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I find the difference & distinction between Manchester & Greater Manchester a little confusing & may need further guidance - related to this I note this list has template {{Greater Manchester}} while Architecture of Manchester has {{Manchester}} & I wonder why?
I'm sure most of these are because of my ignorance about the area rather than any conflicts with MOS etc & can easily be resolved & then I would be able to support (& I may change Grade I listed buildings in Bristol to follow this example once resolved).— Rod talk 09:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the helpful feedback. The column for date of listing has been changed to architect, in line with a prevous suggestion, and the lead reworked to (hopefully) take care of Awadewit's concerns. The map will have to be a longer term project though I'm afraid. The Manchester/Greater Manchester distinction is potentially confusing, I agree, because the county has the same name as the city, but the city is just one of the boroughs within the county of Greater Manchester. Somewhat similar to London and the City of London. Any suggestions you have to make the difference clearer would be gratefully received. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Well done to the team for responding to comments. I've now changed my comment to support. I think my confusion was not helped by travelling to a meeting which the agenda said was in Machester to arrive to be told by locals in no uncertain terms that we were in the City of Salford not Manchester. I won't make that mistake again.— Rod talk 08:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the helpful feedback. The column for date of listing has been changed to architect, in line with a prevous suggestion, and the lead reworked to (hopefully) take care of Awadewit's concerns. The map will have to be a longer term project though I'm afraid. The Manchester/Greater Manchester distinction is potentially confusing, I agree, because the county has the same name as the city, but the city is just one of the boroughs within the county of Greater Manchester. Somewhat similar to London and the City of London. Any suggestions you have to make the difference clearer would be gratefully received. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If I may be allowed to summarise the position so far, it appears that this list has 4 supporters (5 if the nominator is included) and 2 opposers. The opposition appears to hinge around two outstanding points:
- Using tables to format the layout is "preposterous".
- The standard referencing system makes navigating the list difficult.
I think it is clear that both of those objections are without merit. So in lieu of any further actionable objections, is it not time now to close this nomination? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 03:01, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeI changed my previous vote to neutral, since I realize that it may be a matter of taste. BUT, right now, I notice that the notes in the references are not sourced. For example, the "A tower was added to the building in 1995" statement is unsourced. How can one be sure that it was added in 1995 and not in some other year? There are no general references to check, so statements like that are left unsourced. I counted 5 unsourced statements. --Crzycheetah 07:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The references column provides all the information given in the table and the notes on a building. If this is not sufficient, could you please suggest a way of integrating the notes and the references. Nev1 (talk) 14:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The note at #11, "Sometimes known as OSGB36...", is well sourced with 2 references. I'd like to see the same way of referencing at notes #
15, 31, 42, 44, and 68.--Crzycheetah 22:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- Ok, that shouldn't be too hard, apart from #15, it's just a matter of duplicating sources. The complicated part is #15, the note saying this building was listed after 2001. Would it be enough to double up with the IoE ref or would it need the other ref giving it's current status? I still think this is too much hassle as the ref column covers everything, ie: those links are the source for the name, when it was completed, the architect, where it is, and any notes. Nev1 (talk) 22:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I just checked the refs for "Parish Church of St Peter" (#16 and 17) and none of them prove that it was upgraded to Grade I after February 2001, as the #15 note states. --Crzycheetah 00:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's elementry, my dear Crzycheetah.You are correct the sources do not explicitly state that the buildings have been upgrade, howver throughsimple deduction it can be proven. Our starting point is ref #16, from the Image of England website, accurate as of February 2001, claiming the church is II*. This is juxtaposed by ref #17, dating from late 2007 and published by Bolton MBC - a fairly reliable source. At first glance these sources may appear to contradict each other as the source from Bolton MBC claims the church is Grade I. Almost but not quite: in the intervening period, the church must have been upgraded. And so the case is proven and this is repeated for all the other buildings upgraded since 2001.
- It is unlikely that a source can be unearthed for each building explicitly stating that it has been upgraded since 2001. So, what do you suggest should be done? I think the current system works fine. Nev1 (talk) 00:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You're saying it's elementary, yet it took you one paragraph to explain. I think note #15 should be expanded to point out that it's an assumption due to contradicting information from two reliable sources. --Crzycheetah 01:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I just checked the refs for "Parish Church of St Peter" (#16 and 17) and none of them prove that it was upgraded to Grade I after February 2001, as the #15 note states. --Crzycheetah 00:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, that shouldn't be too hard, apart from #15, it's just a matter of duplicating sources. The complicated part is #15, the note saying this building was listed after 2001. Would it be enough to double up with the IoE ref or would it need the other ref giving it's current status? I still think this is too much hassle as the ref column covers everything, ie: those links are the source for the name, when it was completed, the architect, where it is, and any notes. Nev1 (talk) 22:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The note at #11, "Sometimes known as OSGB36...", is well sourced with 2 references. I'd like to see the same way of referencing at notes #
- The references column provides all the information given in the table and the notes on a building. If this is not sufficient, could you please suggest a way of integrating the notes and the references. Nev1 (talk) 14:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- As you say, a whole paragraph, and yet you still failed to understand. The information is not contradictory, and there are no assumptions being made. The Images of England site quite clearly states that information listed there has not been updated since 2001. The Bolton MBC site quite clearly states that St Peters is Grade I listed as at 2007. What's the assumption? In what way is the information contradictory? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 02:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I actually notice that it's hard for you to understand what assumption means! I see one reference that states it's grade I, then there's another reference that states it's grade II. I hope you understand that those refs contradict each other. Nowhere it states that those buildings were upgraded, so you are making an assumption that it actually was upgraded based on those contradictory reports. By saying that "one site was not updated since 2001; thus,the information stated there is not true anymore" is an assumption.--Crzycheetah 05:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- As you say, a whole paragraph, and yet you still failed to understand. The information is not contradictory, and there are no assumptions being made. The Images of England site quite clearly states that information listed there has not been updated since 2001. The Bolton MBC site quite clearly states that St Peters is Grade I listed as at 2007. What's the assumption? In what way is the information contradictory? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 02:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I apologise. I don't agree with your reasoning, but I ought not to have made the personal remark that I did. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've expanded the note, please see if it meets your requirements. Nev1 (talk) 16:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, Nev1. It wasn't difficult, was it? As soon as you provide references along with the other 4 notes I previously mentioned, I'll remove my objection. I also just re-read that you said it wouldn't be hard to do, so, good luck!--Crzycheetah 21:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've expanded the note, please see if it meets your requirements. Nev1 (talk) 16:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I forgot about that, done. Nev1 (talk) 22:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Thanks for your "good-faith effort".--Crzycheetah 22:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 04:31, 30 January 2008.
I believe this list meets featured list criteria because it is well-referenced, accurate, and has a strong lead before the list. I have worked on this list extensively, and it is among the first of its kind in the college ranks. It has absolutely no red links, and the prose reads well in my opinion. I hope you all agree with me. Thanks for any and all comments in advance. CrdHwk (talk) 01:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment – So no one wants to review this list? I've already made a request for participation at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football (no, I did not ask for support votes, I asked for general participation) and I think I might have to do that again. I know this is still technically day one (or almost day two) but I would really like some feedback on this. I'm not going to let this sit here and die without getting any votes (support or oppose). I'm trying to exercise extreme patience here but this is my first shot at featured for anything so I'm a little anxious to see how it fairs. CrdHwk (talk) 00:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support — I've got a few recommendations, but they're nothing that would keep me from supporting this.
- More citations in the lede prose might be a good idea.
- Rather than blank spaces, how about putting "Independent" or "No Conference" for the years that it wasn't in a conference?
- What does WIUFA stand for? It's mentioned in the footnote, but it'd be a good idea to put that information in the lede so a reader doesn't have to scroll all the way down.
- Excellent, excellent use of color. It really helps with the readability.
Overall, this is a fantastic list, and definitely worthy of featured list status. JKBrooks85 (talk) 07:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. --Golbez (talk) 22:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - nice comprehensive list. AUTiger » talk 06:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 18:52, 29 January 2008.
I ran across this article while working on another project, and I was very favorably impressed. I believe it meets all FLC criteria. It is inherently a list, but the content is presented in an article-like format. It includes abundant related detail and good illustrations. Most impressively, I think that a reader of this article would come away impressed with the encyclopedic value of a list of city nicknames (notably, not all readers of List of city nicknames in the United States have had that kind of positive impression). --Orlady (talk) 03:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment It's kind of small, and it's not really a list is it? Plus the lead is way too short. -- Scorpion0422 02:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree that it doesn't look like a typical list. However, its subject is a collection of discrete items (isn't that what a list is?). Also, if you start at List of city nicknames in the United States (clearly a list) and drill down through List of city nicknames in Texas (another obvious list) to Nicknames of Houston, you will recognize that this article is fundamentally a list, but one that has been so effectively embellished with annotations that it does not look like a typical list.
I also agree that the article is short, but I was not aware that featured lists need to be long. Rather, they need to be comprehensive. This article is longer than several featured lists, including List of Canadian provinces and territories by population, List of counties in Connecticut, List of counties in Hawaii, List of counties in Nevada, List of counties in Rhode Island, List of counties in Wyoming, List of colleges and universities in Vermont, and List of Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II.
--Orlady (talk) 03:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree that it doesn't look like a typical list. However, its subject is a collection of discrete items (isn't that what a list is?). Also, if you start at List of city nicknames in the United States (clearly a list) and drill down through List of city nicknames in Texas (another obvious list) to Nicknames of Houston, you will recognize that this article is fundamentally a list, but one that has been so effectively embellished with annotations that it does not look like a typical list.
- Comments The lead is much to short. Also, an external links section of some type would be helpful. Drewcifer (talk) 17:22, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Response The lead has been expanded.--Orlady (talk) 02:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks good. I'd still recommend an external links section, though. Drewcifer (talk) 22:27, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- What sort of links did you have in mind? Geraldk (talk) 01:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I dunno, maybe an official city website, or an official tourism site or something? Drewcifer (talk) 05:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Evb-wiki added them in. Geraldk (talk) 11:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking good! Drewcifer (talk) 17:43, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Evb-wiki added them in. Geraldk (talk) 11:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I dunno, maybe an official city website, or an official tourism site or something? Drewcifer (talk) 05:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeWhilst I agree that comprehensiveness and not length is the aim, we do need a big enough WP:LEAD that provides an adequate summary of the contents. I would say that two paragraphs should be enough.So oppose for now.Woody (talk) 00:06, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Response The lead has been expanded.--Orlady (talk) 02:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It now consists of three sentences. Read WP:LEAD and then look at some good examples, such as List of counties in Vermont. It needs a substantial couple of paragraphs.Woody (talk) 13:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- I've expanded the lead somewhat, and dropped the last sentence of the lead (...nicknames include...) because I didn't think it was necessary. Hope you don't mind, Orlady. Geraldk (talk) 17:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Far be it from me to object! This list is mainly the work of Evb-wiki. --Orlady (talk) 14:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Not so. The article arose out of a debate about the inclusion of nicknames in the main Houston article and was proposed and engineered by User:Postoak. I merely helped. I did hold the line on the necessity of encyclopedic context, so as not to create a bare list, but I am certainly not the primary editor. Postoak put in a lot of effort finding both sources and context. --Evb-wiki (talk) 16:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- ps - It has been much improved, since this proposal, and mainly by the work of others. --Evb-wiki (talk) 16:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Not so. The article arose out of a debate about the inclusion of nicknames in the main Houston article and was proposed and engineered by User:Postoak. I merely helped. I did hold the line on the necessity of encyclopedic context, so as not to create a bare list, but I am certainly not the primary editor. Postoak put in a lot of effort finding both sources and context. --Evb-wiki (talk) 16:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Far be it from me to object! This list is mainly the work of Evb-wiki. --Orlady (talk) 14:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've expanded the lead somewhat, and dropped the last sentence of the lead (...nicknames include...) because I didn't think it was necessary. Hope you don't mind, Orlady. Geraldk (talk) 17:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks good, though perhaps have an image in the lead; Image:Houston Skyline.jpg looks good. Either way, has been improved enough for me to support. Woody (talk) 22:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Image added. Geraldk (talk) 01:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeSerious citation issues - I've added fact tags where I think they're appropriate. In some cases, I think the tagged statements might be able to be covered by existing references, even references earlier in the paragraph, but a reference covering multiple consecutive sentences in a paragraph should come at the end of the last sentence it covers. Geraldk (talk) 23:30, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Response Citations have been added. All statements in article now appear to be sourced. --Orlady (talk) 02:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Summary of current status: 3 support (Orlady as nominator, Drewcifer and Woody). No opposition. --Orlady (talk) 16:07, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Looks quite impressive. I'd suggest formatting the sources into two columns, though. In fact, I'll be WP:BOLD and do it myself. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 03:28, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:39, 29 January 2008.
In the grand tradition of (most recently) List of Governors of Wisconsin, another governor list. Exhaustively cited, I think, and while it doesn't have all the new features of the Wisconsin list, I'll begrudgingly add them if so asked! --Golbez (talk) 17:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CommentWhite space alert! The Edward M. McCook's image creates huge white space in the Governors of the State of Colorado section. If you could find pictures of all Governors of the Territory of Colorado and added them in the table, that would be great. Otherwise, I'd suggest you to remove the aforementioned image.--Crzycheetah 06:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- IE fails yet again, I hadn't noticed this problem because I only use Firefox. I've moved all the images to the top heading, that solved the problem, what do you think? --Golbez (talk) 17:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's fine now. More comments:
See also section contains redundant links, must go.- Normally I would agree, but since Governor of Colorado is kind of a hidden link in the header, I saw no harm in relinking it below. I did remove the Lt Gov link.--Golbez (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The other 2 links (law & history) are in the {{colorado}} template, as well. Is it really necessary to have them in the see also section? Just asking.--Crzycheetah 20:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In that case, no, I'd mostly ignored the existence of that template. Removing them. --Golbez (talk) 21:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The other 2 links (law & history) are in the {{colorado}} template, as well. Is it really necessary to have them in the see also section? Just asking.--Crzycheetah 20:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Normally I would agree, but since Governor of Colorado is kind of a hidden link in the header, I saw no harm in relinking it below. I did remove the Lt Gov link.--Golbez (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Living former governors section needs to be updated to January 2008.- Done. --Golbez (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
General references should be formatted properly (publisher, access-date).- Done. --Golbez (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to see the terms instead of the notes.- Damn you, Wisconsin! *shakes fist* That will take some time. --Golbez (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done; and in the process, found a major error in the intro that took over an hour of Googling to fix. :( oh well. WISCONSIIIIN~! --Golbez (talk) 20:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Gotta love Wisconsin! If Wisconsin weren't created, then that major error would still be here! I don't even want to imagine the consequences.--Crzycheetah 20:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmph. And yes, I found another obscure error on the Alabama list just now while switching it to Terms format. --Golbez (talk) 21:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Gotta love Wisconsin! If Wisconsin weren't created, then that major error would still be here! I don't even want to imagine the consequences.--Crzycheetah 20:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done; and in the process, found a major error in the intro that took over an hour of Googling to fix. :( oh well. WISCONSIIIIN~! --Golbez (talk) 20:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Damn you, Wisconsin! *shakes fist* That will take some time. --Golbez (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's fine now. More comments:
- IE fails yet again, I hadn't noticed this problem because I only use Firefox. I've moved all the images to the top heading, that solved the problem, what do you think? --Golbez (talk) 17:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Well done! --Crzycheetah 21:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support After looking through it, I found only two very minor things: is the word "only" necessary in note #8? It makes more sense to me either without it, or changed to "not appointed until". Also, in note #10, is the comma after "office" necessary? In earlier times, I might have made a comment about the stand-alone years in the Territorial Governors table, but, after what I went through trying to find dates like that for the Wisconsin Governors list, I'm quite willing to believe that they can't be found. And speaking of the Wisconsin Governors list .... glad it helped you find an error ;P —Salmar (talk) 02:03, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Both fixed. And yeah, for some reason it is completely impossible, at least with the sources available to me and my google fu, to find some territorial dates. --Golbez (talk) 04:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It seems normal now that featured tables with 2 or more entries are made sortable by column. So the tables here should be made sortable. Hmains (talk) 23:56, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Impossible to do because of the Lt. Governor column having half-row entries. The sorting would break. --Golbez (talk) 02:05, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Well done. Geraldk (talk) 03:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:39, 29 January 2008.
This page was originally split from the Bibliography section of the featured article candidate William Gibson, and has undergone a lot of work in the past few days to become, in my humble opinion, the most comprehensive, best-illustrated and well-referenced resource on the topic online. Any and all opinions and recommendations are welcome, but bear in mind this is my first aspirational featured list and it might take a little time to familiarise myself with the process. Skomorokh incite 04:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No objections then? Skomorokh incite 23:17, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note - The Victor Tsoi reference link is broken. --Orlady (talk) 16:20, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Thanks for catching that. Skomorokh incite 16:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Seems wonderfully complete, plus the prose is well-written and gives a good introduction/summary. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:56, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - though the sections for uncollected short fiction, articles, forewards, introductions, and afterwords, and miscellaneous are visually choppy and difficult to differentiate at first glance. Perhaps using dashes like in List of works by William Monahan would help fix that. Geraldk (talk) 12:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done I think this makes it easier to read, but I was not sure where to use the dashes exactly - I put them in the sections you mentioned, but do they belong elsewhere as well , for consistency's sake? Skomorokh confer 13:43, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm ok with having it only in those sections, but other editors may have an opinion... Geraldk (talk) 15:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great images, great lead, well-written, good references, overall good job, only thing that could be fixed is what Geraldk said, but I still support.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 22:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:39, 29 January 2008.
I'm nominating this because I think it is of a sufficient quality to be a featured list, and I think it is of a better quality than the list of serials that passed FLC last month. While the list does not use cite.php, it still uses an acceptable method of citing. Will (talk) 00:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The lead is kind of short, and some of the statements need sources, ie. "A third submission was similarly rejected as Ian and Barbara were due to leave, and the script was dropped.". -- Scorpion0422 00:15, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Doing.... I've rewrote the {{cn}} statement, and tried to extend the lede into another paragraph explaining the various reasons. Pointers on what needs to be sourced would be nice. Will (talk) 00:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Shada wasn't really unmade, it was unfinshed. Buc (talk) 19:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Shada does fall under the list's scope, though - "never fully produced". Will (talk) 05:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Overall looks pretty good. A few suggestions:
- The lead is too short, given the amount of content the rest of the list has. One thing the article is missing is a bit of contextualization, ie and explanation of the show itself. For instance, many of the sections are named "1st Doctor" "2nd Doctor" etc. What does that mean? As someone ignorant to the show in general, I'm not sure what that means. Explaining stuff like that in the lead would help expand the lead a bit, as well as contextualize the list the follows.
- I'll work on contextualising the Doctors soon (as in tonight, or tommorow morning). I've had a go at the lede. Will (talk) 19:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- A few external links would be nice.
- Added one. Will (talk) 19:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- How do you (or more importantly the sources provided) define "which were seriously considered for production"? Please explain/expand upon in the lead.
- The lead is too short, given the amount of content the rest of the list has. One thing the article is missing is a bit of contextualization, ie and explanation of the show itself. For instance, many of the sections are named "1st Doctor" "2nd Doctor" etc. What does that mean? As someone ignorant to the show in general, I'm not sure what that means. Explaining stuff like that in the lead would help expand the lead a bit, as well as contextualize the list the follows.
- And that's pretty much it. Everything else looks good. Drewcifer (talk) 02:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Shannon Sullivan, the main source, highlights them as green and defines them as "those which the production office had every intention of making, but which ultimately -- for a variety of reasons -- they never did." Will (talk) 03:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks good, and my concerns have been addressed. Drewcifer (talk) 22:29, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Could you have a paragraph in the lead to expand a little bit on the regenerations bit. I understand it, I watch the programme, but I don't think a noobie would. Only a sentence or two to explain the section headings. Also, could we not have the projected season dates included as well? Or is that only speculation? Woody (talk) 00:49, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment This has been up for 25 days now, is there active editing or conversation here? If not, then I am going to close this nom as failed. Its been up for long enough.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 00:36, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- List noms do not get failed due to lack of interest in the candidacy. Will (talk) 00:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes they do. If they've been around more than a month, then they get closed as a fail and relisted. A fresh nom usually gets more attention than a month old one. -- Scorpion0422 22:51, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- What I was asking was whether or not comments are still being addresses, not if there is a lack of interest in the nom. Inactivity by the nominator is basis for failing. That was my question, and by responding you have basically answered it, cheers!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 03:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- List noms do not get failed due to lack of interest in the candidacy. Will (talk) 00:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - great list, but there are some sourcing issues. I went through and placed fact tags in places where I noticed them, though I may have missed some and some of them may be covered by sources used earlier in their paragraphs. Geraldk (talk) 17:00, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In fact, they almost all were; so I've removed the tags for now. I'll work through them tomorrow if I get time to add duplicate references as required; if I find any that aren't duplicates I'll add the tag back in. Percy Snoodle (talk) 17:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I think that's done. There were two or three new refs needed, but I've been able to find sources for them. Percy Snoodle (talk) 12:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Geraldk (talk) 14:36, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I think that's done. There were two or three new refs needed, but I've been able to find sources for them. Percy Snoodle (talk) 12:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In fact, they almost all were; so I've removed the tags for now. I'll work through them tomorrow if I get time to add duplicate references as required; if I find any that aren't duplicates I'll add the tag back in. Percy Snoodle (talk) 17:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support (belatedly) - an interesting, informative and well-researched piece. BencherliteTalk 23:53, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 22:06, 25 January 2008.
previous FLC (11:12, 14 December 2007)
Hello all, relaunching the bid to push this list to featured status. We've just had a very successful and thorough peer review which I hope has covered most bases and alleviated most of the concerns from the previous somewhat acrimonious (and failed) FLC. Don't hold back, don't hesitate to comment, I believe we're as close as possible (with some minor tweaks perhaps) to getting this (at last) to FL. Thanks in advance for your time and energy. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:44, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support As a reviewer of the article in both the previous FLC and the PR, I can say that this list has improved dramatically. It has gone through a thorough fact-check and copyedit. I believe it now meets all the featured list criteria and so, I support. Woody (talk) 22:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support having taken part in 2 or else 3 peer reviews, and commented on the previous FLC, I now think everything is finally in order and looking pretty stable. It abides by several other football seasons articles. It's fully referenced, has a fairly relevant image and everything has been checked. Peanut4 (talk) 22:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - I'm not happy with the splitting of the "Europe/Other" column into two sub-columns, but that's by the by. The list seems to pass the FL criteria regardless of that, so you have my support. – PeeJay 23:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, thanks Peejay. I think you're right, it was one of those subjective decisions and there are pro's and con's. The good news is that it's still the same info and presented, in my opinion, a little bit less garishly. However, to each their own. Thanks again for taking the time. The Rambling Man (talk) 23:05, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Don't mention it, TRM. Just glad to be a part of the process. – PeeJay 23:19, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, thanks Peejay. I think you're right, it was one of those subjective decisions and there are pro's and con's. The good news is that it's still the same info and presented, in my opinion, a little bit less garishly. However, to each their own. Thanks again for taking the time. The Rambling Man (talk) 23:05, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - all my concerns reasonably addressed in the Peer Review. --Dweller (talk) 23:03, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. I commented at the previous FLC and was an active participant at the recent PR; I did some work on the article but was not a major editor. The list has improved significantly since its first FLC and in my view now satisfies the FL criteria. It follows the format of previously successful football seasons FLs, and is now stable and fully referenced. There are two points in the lead section which you might consider (and I might have thought of at the PR). Struway2 (talk) 10:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Does The Football League need to capitalise "The"? I know that's their official title at the moment, but we're referring to 1920.
- I'm not sure. Research I've done says The Football League was founded in 1888 and even the official site states "...and thus the seeds of The Football League were sown..." with regard to its conception... The Rambling Man (talk) 10:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In the third para, the ICFC Trophy playoff game appears as once in the list of what Leeds have been runners-up in and how often. As this was a one-off game to decide who kept the trophy once the competition was superseded, it only happened once, so (to me at least) it reads a bit oddly. Maybe if it was turned round to read The club have also been runners-up five times in the League Championship, three times in the FA Cup, once each in the League Cup, the Charity Shield, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the European Cup, and lost the play-off for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy. it'd look less uncomfortable.
- Agreed. I've reworded per your suggestion. Thanks for all your comments! The Rambling Man (talk) 10:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If you don't mind, the wrong instance of the ICFC is now wikilinked in that sentence. Worse, it looks like tautology. Can I suggest replacing "the play-off" with "a special play-off". It would be even better if those words were linked to an appropriate bit of another article that explained what happened. --Dweller (talk) 10:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Seems to link to the right article to me...? The Rambling Man (talk) 10:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The link is on the second instance of the name in the same sentence. --Dweller (talk) 10:53, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- As I see it, the link is to article Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off, which does describe what the playoff was for. Is that not right? Struway2 (talk) 11:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The first instance isn't the play-off, it's the ICFC itself which is linked to a couple of sentences earlier... The Rambling Man (talk) 11:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- OK it was me (caffeine currently flowing). Duh. Could you apply that wikilink to the "special" wording I suggested to avoid giving the impression this idiot got? :-) --Dweller (talk) 11:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The first instance isn't the play-off, it's the ICFC itself which is linked to a couple of sentences earlier... The Rambling Man (talk) 11:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- As I see it, the link is to article Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off, which does describe what the playoff was for. Is that not right? Struway2 (talk) 11:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The link is on the second instance of the name in the same sentence. --Dweller (talk) 10:53, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Seems to link to the right article to me...? The Rambling Man (talk) 10:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If you don't mind, the wrong instance of the ICFC is now wikilinked in that sentence. Worse, it looks like tautology. Can I suggest replacing "the play-off" with "a special play-off". It would be even better if those words were linked to an appropriate bit of another article that explained what happened. --Dweller (talk) 10:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed. I've reworded per your suggestion. Thanks for all your comments! The Rambling Man (talk) 10:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Does The Football League need to capitalise "The"? I know that's their official title at the moment, but we're referring to 1920.
- (←) Not overkeen on "special", a bit peacock for me. But "one-off play-off" sounds weird too... any other suggestions? The Rambling Man (talk) 11:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- How about the descriptive "the playoff to keep the Inter-City Fairs Cup Trophy"? --Dweller (talk) 11:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fine, I've implemented as you suggested Dweller, cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 11:54, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds fine, but does the "to keep" bit need linking? Peanut4 (talk) 13:53, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fair point, just "the playoff" wikilinked now. Hope that pleases all parties! The Rambling Man (talk) 14:04, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds fine, but does the "to keep" bit need linking? Peanut4 (talk) 13:53, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fine, I've implemented as you suggested Dweller, cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 11:54, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- How about the descriptive "the playoff to keep the Inter-City Fairs Cup Trophy"? --Dweller (talk) 11:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support with the one microscopic quibble that I don't think "Trophy" should have a capital letter in the sentence discussed at such great length just above this comment, as it's not a proper noun. ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Good point. I'm not sure play off should be capped in the table for this entry either. Peanut4 (talk) 16:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You're both probably right. It followed the capitalisation of the Wiki article, which is also probably wrong. Struway2 (talk) 16:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I guessed so which is wasn't WP:BOLD enough to change it! Peanut4 (talk) 16:31, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You're both probably right. It followed the capitalisation of the Wiki article, which is also probably wrong. Struway2 (talk) 16:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Good point. I'm not sure play off should be capped in the table for this entry either. Peanut4 (talk) 16:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 22:06, 25 January 2008.
Support, I created this list with List of Green Bay Packers first-round draft picks as a guide to "excellence". It has everything needed to make it a great list and I feel it meets the criteria. Although I used a controversial website for the transactions it was only source I could find to use. At any rate I feel this list meets all criteria and deserves FL status. Thanks for any support given! HoosierStateTalk 23:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks good and well done with the footnotes. I like the Manning/Freeney pictures too. Great work. IndyColtsfan2008 (talk) 22:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- NOTE: This user registered the day he commented.
- Support I was all prepared to come in here and bash the list for having Bob Sanders listed as a 1st round draft pick, but even that's been fixed already. Love it! -- JTHolla! 04:00, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Position and college should also be green when it a number one pick. Buc (talk) 19:54, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done, I didn't do that because none of the other FL like this had that but if you think I should then okay. HoosierStateTalk 20:06, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support All of my suggestions (on the talk page) were fixed. The list looks great, good work!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 05:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply] Opposen-c-systems is not a reliable source. This website is run by an enthusiast, who may be making everything up. There is no reason to believe that the information available at that website is correct.--Crzycheetah 22:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done, Okay I made a sacrifice for the sake of the nomination. I used Pro Football Draft History so that the trades would be better referenced however the notes aren't as detailed as I would have liked. I feel I have fixed the issue of the oppose. HoosierStateTalk 23:30, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have already talked about this with Gonzofan and I told him that it is near impossible to find anything else to use. Most other FL of this type use N-C systems as their references so either those need to be de-FL or the FLC need to be promoted. I looked everywhere possible to find a better source but it just doesn't exist. Point me to something better and I'm more than willing to make the changes. By the way isn't This website is run by an enthusiast, who may be making everything up. just speculation?HoosierStateTalk 22:25, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- All right, I am striking out my oppose. It's better to have less details with reliable source, than more details with unreliable source. I am actually very surprised to see that there are very few sources for the NFL transactions. I thought NFL being the #1 league in the U.S. would have more active reporters than NBA, for instance.--Crzycheetah 00:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 22:06, 25 January 2008.
This list and all its sub-lists contain all the known recipients of the Knight’s Cross. For the higher grades the list are sorted in chronological order and for its sub-lists they are sorted alphabetically. I am interested to know what might be missing to qualify them for a featured list rating. MisterBee1966 (talk) 12:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support The expansion of the leads and the expanding of the subsections look good. I would expand on what enactments are in the sub-section text. That word will not be common to most readers. Other than that, I think I can support. Woody (talk) 02:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments - a good list, clearly lots of work. A few suggestions / questions before I can support.
- Can we have a few wikilinks for Luftwaffe, etc in the tables? Do any of the ranks have articles? Done
- Any thoughts on making the tables sortable? (The date and notes sections can be left unsortable, since the tables are in chronological order and the notes don't need sorting) Done
- What do the * before some names in the "Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords" section mean?
- BencherliteTalk 09:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments Posthumous receipt is denoted by an asterisk. This is stated at the top of the list. I will look into the other comments. MisterBee1966 (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Oops, missed that! BencherliteTalk 21:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for those improvements. One more thing (and sorry for not asking earlier) - what's the source for the "last living and still living" sections? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bencherlite (talk • contribs) 21:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Good question. This was added by other Wikipedian editors. I will remove this and leave a note on the talk page. MisterBee1966 (talk) 12:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fine. Support, can't see any other issues. BencherliteTalk 14:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - The lead should explain that the listings for Knight's Cross and Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves are divided into separate pages. Right now, the lead claims that the nominated article is a 'complete list', which is inaccurate. Geraldk (talk) 00:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Done[reply]
- Support Geraldk (talk) 15:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 08:15, 25 January 2008.
I've been working on this list and believe that it now meets all of the Featured List Criteria. It is comprehensive, easy to understand, illustrated with revelent and diverse pictures, and based upon the other bird FLs, especially the recently passed list for Massachusetts, which I used as the base for this article when writing it. Thanks. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 04:35, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: meets the criteria, has a good lead, and is well-illustrated. My only question is whether there is a way to keep the images from overlapping the bar at the end of each section. Other than that, it looks great! Cheers, heyjude. 00:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The overlap of the images bothers me too; however, they are all thumb size per MOS and the only way to eliminate the gap is either to cut the pictures (no) or to expand the intro on each family. I may fiddle a bit with some expansion of the family descriptions to eliminate the overflow. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 01:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Well done. Don't worry about the overlap - the only way I've ever dealt with that is by writing more, which isn't always productive. Geraldk (talk) 03:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great list! Drewcifer (talk) 17:19, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support (although IMO the image of the cardinal in the lead section is unnecessarily large). --Orlady (talk) 17:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. I made the cardinal pic smaller- is it better now? Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 00:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, thanks! --Orlady (talk) 22:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. I made the cardinal pic smaller- is it better now? Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 00:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 08:15, 25 January 2008.
Ok, this is quite experimental as I have never nominated anything for FLC before and no orders of battle appear to have passed FLC (or even been nominated for all I know). This article is a companion to Glorious First of June and contains the names of ships and captains engaged during the actions preceeding the battle and the battle itself. Casualty figures are also included where possible. As discussed in the introduction, patchy record keeping at the time has resulted in holes in our present day knowledge which are represented as clearly as possible in the table. One thing I was not able to clearly determine from the criteria was whether it is an essential requirement for all red links to be blue for FLC. I am steadily and slowly turning as many as possible blue in a process which will continue for the next couple of months (and some articles may not be created, I am still collating information on these people to see if they pass notability. If they do not, then the red link will become black text). If the listed names must be blue or black for the list to pass then I will take on board any other comments made and withdraw the nomination until such time as I can resubmit it. Either way, thanks for reading.--Jackyd101 (talk) 13:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Looks interesting for a start, and by joves, we need new types of lists (episodes, discogs and certain sport lists have quickly dominated FLC because they get standardized easily)! My major concern is not with commanders, as I consider the ships are the ones who needs to be blue-linked, and at first glance I'm finding a definite imbalance and lack on the French half of the list. Otherwise, it looks fairly good (but I'm not engaging myself more than that: my current lack of a computer makes these hard to give suit).Circeus (talk) 18:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I presume that someone has been on a french ship creation drive because it seems balanced to me. I think the list lloks good, is informative and tells readers all you need to know. I can't see any problems with this. (And I agree with Circeus that we need some new lists around here). Woody (talk) 23:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support very interesting and well-presented. Good work (and also agree it makes a change!). BencherliteTalk 09:23, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks great, I liked the idea of this list, it wasnt just the regulars we get here. GOod work!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 00:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply] - Support and well done on such a massive list. It would be great in future to get some articles going on some fo the red-linked captains, but that seems like a long-term task. Geraldk (talk) 16:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- For the British, its a task well underway, I have created about 15 in the last three months and will get around to most of the rest in the next two. The French captains are much harder since many of their first names are not recorded, but maybe at some point some may be created. Thanks for your comments.--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, unusual list, well-referenced, well-formatted, well-contextualized, good job. --Golbez (talk) 21:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 08:15, 25 January 2008.
After a fair amount of work on the list, I believe it to be ready for scrutiny! The article is stylistically similar to Dischord Records discography, a similar list recently granted FLC status. As always, any comments and suggestions are welcome. Drewcifer (talk) 10:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Although, I would like to know why you put the colon before the table. It intends te table a bit, is there a particular reason?--Crzycheetah 06:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I just like the way it looks is all. Pretty stupid/minor stuff, I just think it looks better. Thanks for the support! Drewcifer (talk) 06:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, I just checked the new tool at the top(dead links checker) and it shows that links to 02909.com aren't working.--Crzycheetah 08:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Seems fine now. I think it was just down for a little bit or something. Drewcifer (talk) 03:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, I just checked the new tool at the top(dead links checker) and it shows that links to 02909.com aren't working.--Crzycheetah 08:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - well done. Geraldk (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks great although I would love to see some kind of a photo, but it is by no means a deal-breaker. Good work on the discography!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 00:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:26, 24 January 2008.
This list is in the style of FLs List of islands of Scotland and List of Orkney islands and I believe meets the relevant criteria. Unlike the Orkney archipelago there are a very large number of small skerries and offshore islands, which resulted in a rather complex listing process. As noted on the Talk page, "if anyone should imagine that this large collection of islands is over-doing things and that many of them are surely mere rocks a passer-by might hardly notice, they could visit some of the photograph collections available e.g. Dore Holm or Moo Stack. If some of these spectacular but unheralded islets were in the southern half of the UK, or even anywhere near the more populous regions of Scotland, they might well be national landmarks". Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 11:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: "There are three islands joined to the Shetland Mainland by bridges, East Burra, West Burra, Trondra, and Muckle Roe." There are four islands named. --Golbez (talk) 19:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I see you spotted the deliberate mistake. There was some discussion a while back about whether 'Burra' was one or two islands. I will of course amend. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 20:12, 12 January 2008 (UTC) Done.[reply]
- Support; I'd love for there to be a map of all the named islands and islets, but that would be a rather large undertaking that isn't needed for a featured list. :) --Golbez (talk) 07:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for your support. The map image only shows the larger islands (except Fair Isle to the south). I have a 1:100,000 map (roughly 1 x 0.5 metres in size) but it only registers up to about 50% of the smaller ones. They are all visible via the online Ordnance Survey system at 1:25,000 and I've added that as a general reference. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 09:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support; as nominator. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 20:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support -- seems to meet the criteria --Orlady (talk) 04:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support subject to clarification as to whether the text in the lead given footnote no.1 is a quotation or not – the use of 'these inverted commas' around the definition makes it look as though it is, but the footnote text makes me think that it isn't. BencherliteTalk 09:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank-you for your support, and you ask an intriguing question. You are quite correct that it is not a quote - in the sense of being something said off-wiki. I have had a look at WP:MOS and I am not sure of the correct procedure. I removed the single quote marks and inserted a colon but that didn't look right so I removed the latter as well. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 21:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for clarifying the point. (When is an island not an island? People in Wales have been asking that recently!) BencherliteTalk 21:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Wales may gain one, but meanwhile, on the other side of the world... [1]. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 08:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for clarifying the point. (When is an island not an island? People in Wales have been asking that recently!) BencherliteTalk 21:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank-you for your support, and you ask an intriguing question. You are quite correct that it is not a quote - in the sense of being something said off-wiki. I have had a look at WP:MOS and I am not sure of the correct procedure. I removed the single quote marks and inserted a colon but that didn't look right so I removed the latter as well. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 21:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Spectacular article. It might (and I say might intentionally) make sense to mention St. Ninian's Isle in the discussion of the definition of an island, since it is the only exception to the rule included in the list. Geraldk (talk) 00:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for your support, I will look at this. At least it is an easy-to-explain oddity, unlike say Eileanan Iasgaich - is this one island or several? Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 08:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Another well-written Scottish islands article. Lurker (said · done) 15:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:26, 24 January 2008.
This article was recommended to FLC after a discussion at WT:FAC here. Anyhow, I feel I have addressed the concerns of the previous nomination, and that the article satisfies the featured list criteria. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 01:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Just a question, how can this be a GA-Class article and then go to WP:FLC? The criteria for GA-Class says that lists cannot be GA's. So this article was reviewed as an article and now is a list? It doesnt change my Support for this list but I was a bit curious because I think we really need to keep a tight definition of what is a list and what isn't a list. Good work though!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 08:53, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, per this discussion at WT:FAC, pseudo-lists like this should be considered lists, not articles. Beforehand, they were considered articles, so acquiring GA status was appropriate. As far as I can tell from this point, any character list trying to acquire GA status should be denied and the nominator asked to try for featured list status here. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 09:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Gotcha, thanks for explaining. Good luck!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 18:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Gotcha, thanks for explaining. Good luck!
- Comments Looks good, but a few things I noticed:
- The lead doesn't summarize the whole article (WP:Lead), in fact, it's almost completely in-universe.
- The External links should be bulleted not numbered.
- Doesn't the Japanese text thingie usually come in the beggining, not the end?
- The first setnence should have some sort of bolded title thingie. Not sure what to link to, but something like "The Following is a list of characters ....."
- Only wikilink a publisher value in an in-line citation the first time it's used. IGN, Gamespy, and Gamespot, and RPGGamer are linked multiple times.
- The second two "See alsos" are pretty redundant.Drewcifer (talk) 15:00, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - fixes made. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 06:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks good! Although the multiple wikilinks in the citations still needs to be addressed. That's fairly minor though. Great work! Drewcifer (talk) 18:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - There are some unreferenced statements, specifically under the listings for Mina Hakuba, Julius Belmont, Hammer, Celia Fortner, and Dmitrii Blinov. I don't feel like every sentence needs to be referenced, but there should at least be a citation at the end of the paragraphs that's inclusive of the information covered in the paragraph. Geraldk (talk) 22:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- References added. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 00:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Question - why is it some of the character have Japanese names in parentheses and some don't? Geraldk (talk) 00:36, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:28, 23 January 2008.
After a fair amount of work, I believe this list to be up to FL quality. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Drewcifer (talk) 14:48, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks good to me and seems to be up to par with other discographies. Good work!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 23:46, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply] - Support I made a minor edit removing bolded lines from the table. By the way, you have a knack finding "unpopular" artists.--Crzycheetah 02:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks! I think? =) Drewcifer (talk) 05:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Geraldk (talk) 15:32, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support and close. Woody (talk) 00:29, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 23:37, 21 January 2008.
Self Nomination. I believe this list meets all criteria for a Featured list and is up-to-par with other Featured lists (see Green Bay Packers seasons and Chicago Bears seasons). It is also well referenced and detailed. Although I believe this list meets all the criteria, any comments or suggestions are very welcome. Thanks. Jwalte04 (talk) 23:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I have a couple of small suggestions though:
- Could you add (1) at the end of the Skins Championships, so it would look like Won NFL Championship (1), Won NFL Championship (2) and so on?
- Done
- Footnotes #11, #13, #15, #17 and #19 all use "end" twice really close to each other and it sounds weird. I think if you changed the second "end" to "finished" it would sound better.
- Done
- Can you italicize all the 2008 row?
- Done
- Can you add -- to the blank cells in the 2008 season?
- Done
All of these are minor issues, but good work! The list looks great!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 21:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for all the suggestions! Jwalte04 (talk) 23:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, though in the last two paragraphs of the lead you don't need to repeat the same footnote in consecutive sentences - you can just have it at the end of the paragraph. Geraldk (talk) 15:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks great. Drewcifer (talk) 20:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 23:37, 21 January 2008.
I published this list a week ago, and I believe it is FL material; I based it off of List of Florida hurricanes (pre-1900) and List of North Carolina hurricanes (1980-present). Regarding a potential objection of the lack of a top-right aligned image, I'm working on getting an image there, which should be there well before this nomination is complete. I'll be happy to address any comments. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:48, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. I see nothing wrong. Juliancolton (talk) 19:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I'm very close to supporting this. Looking over it, though, almost all of the statements are in the present tense, but I noticed a few that were written in past tense. It just doesn't look right to have 3-4 in past tense. For example, September 5, 1797 (which is also written in a confusing manner...the ships were lost by the storm? Perhaps during a storm?).I'll check back in a day or so to see if this has been resolved.GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:09, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, I got them. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. This article is useful, easy to understand, and well formatted. I can't find any MOS problems. Good job. GaryColemanFan (talk) 01:26, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, I got them. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks solid, excellent work! A few suggestions though: any word on a possible top image? Not the end of the world, but it would be nice. Also, an external links section would be helpful as well. Drewcifer (talk) 17:13, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The user I contacted is having problems with his computer. Once that is fine, he'll use his tropical cyclone map-making program to create a map for the page. Also, I did not put in an external links section, as any relevant links to this article are already used as sources (and I was told that external links aren't really needed if they're already used as a source). ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 23:37, 21 January 2008.
I am nominating this discography because I feel it meets the correct criteria. The list may look small, but there are no demos, b-sides, or anything else worth mentioning in the list.
Thank you,
Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 01:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not a fan of this format of discography. Every FL discog uses a table format, and in my own opinion for good reason. I'd recommend taking a cue from any of those lists, and converting the info into tables. Some other less pressing issues I see:
Support, all of my concerns have been addressed. Great job! Drewcifer (talk) 22:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not sure about stating the producers of each album: I'm just not sure how relevant it is to a discography. I'm not sure if any other FL discogs supply that information though, so I could be wrong.
- With only 7 in-line citations, I'm not sure if the 2-column {{reflist}} template is neccessary.
- Surely Godsmack releases have charted in more charts/countries? Citing only the Billboard 200 seems somewhat incomplete.
- The release dates should be spelled out rather than numerical.
- I'd like to see a little bit of historical info about the band in the lead. Nothing major, but some very basic facts (who what where when, etc) would help contextualize the discography below.
- The Miscellany section seems odd. Although there's only one demo, ep, and compilation respectively, I'd recommend giving each there own section. "Miscellany" is just too vague.
- The notes at the end of the singles section shouldn't be bullet-pointed.
- I don't think music videos and DVD releases should be lumped together in the same section.
- Billboard should be linked in citation #4. And don't 4 and 6 come from the same source? But the publisher value is different.
Hopefully the above seems doable. If so, I'd be happy to support. Drewcifer (talk) 04:33, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking a million times better! There's just a few more, fairly minor things I notice:
- Each major release (except singles of course) should give information such as the label, as well as any note-worthy facts like debut album, greatest hits compilation, etc.
- The certification stats should use "×" not an x.
- The video section should also be in a table. And is "Video albums" really the correct term?
- For consistency sake, the abbreviations of countries should follow the ones already used in other discographies. ie U.S. rather than USA, SWI rather than Swi, etc. Not only does that make things more consistent, but it also means you don't need the explanation of the abbreviations, as you do in the beggining of the studio albums section.
- For tables where certifications and/or charts don't apply, a column isn't neccessary. ie. the certifications column of compilations and demos and the charts column for demos.
- You should take out citations #8. Not only is MVDbase not a WP:reliable source, but you don't really need to reference music videos.
- Also, for the compliations table, since there's only one chart, you don't really need the Chart Peak Positions/U.S. double row thingie. Just have one that says "Billboard 200 peak" or something like that.Drewcifer (talk) 08:22, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking a million times better! There's just a few more, fairly minor things I notice:
Done Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 19:47, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking better. A few more very minor things:
- The certifications columns are all very inconsistent. Under studio albums it says "Certifications" then "US", both linked. Then in Extended plays it says "Certifications" then "USA", neither linked. Then in DVD releases it just says RIAA Certification. What I would recommend is this: since albums and eps only have RIAA certifications, the dual row thing isn't necessary. Then I would have them all say RIAA cert., with only the first (Studio albums) wiki-linked.
- Only the first instance of publisher values need to be wikilinked. So, #7, #8, #9, and #10 shouldn't have Billboard.com linked, only #4.
- For smack this, the em-dash in the cert column isn't necessary. Just leave it blank.
- I still don't think the explanation of the abbreviations of countries in studio albums is neccessary, since all the abbreviations are wikilinked.
- The country abbreviations in the Extended plays are inconsistent with the others.
- Lastly, all the dashes in the titles of the sources should be changed to em-dashes.Drewcifer (talk) 23:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking better. A few more very minor things:
Done Thank you for the review, this is my first FL. I have FAs but no FLs. Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 23:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks great. There's just one last thing, which I really should have noticed earlier. All the dashes you use in the chart columns, reference titles, etc, are —, when they should be –. At the bottom of the edit page, in the big box with all the symbols, right after "Insert:" there are two dashes. Both are different than the standard "-" you get from your keyboard, however, – looks exactly like - in the editing window. So everything should be the middle dash, –, not the long dash — or the short dash -. I know this sounds minor, but every other discog uses the middle dash. If you can take care of that, then I'll be happy to (finally) give my support. Drewcifer (talk) 02:10, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 21:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment About the infobox, "Extended plays" directs to "singles" and "singles" directs to "music video's". It looks nice but it doesn't work properly. Baldrick90 (talk) 17:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 02:07, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: hard link to the previous format, at the time of nomination. --kingboyk (talk) 19:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: "To date Godsmack has sold over 12 million albums in the United States, and an additional 1 million worldwide, bringing their total sales to 13 million copies sold worldwide." Where the hell is this stated in this interview you added as reference? Gocsa (talk) 12:38, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I have no clue, but it was removed. Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 21:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Tending toward a support, but:
- I see what Drewcifer said about the dashes, but Nine Inch Nails discography, Nirvana discography, Powderfinger discography etc have longer dashes (em-dashes) so I think you should go with those.
- I think the history section can be increased in line with the examples i gave you.
- Include a tab of the no of different releases like those discogs. (The template thingy under the main picture)
- I really don't like "RIAA cert." ... U.S. certifications or Certifications with U.S. under it should be better. (Again I see Drew's comment but I'm not a fan of abbreviations)
- "US" should really be "U.S." everywhere.
- Delink RIAA and billboard in the DVD section.
- As opposed to the current format, could you make it like Nirvana where for every album, the label info, catalogue no and formats are given?
- How come no b-sides? All singles have b-sides that need to be listed in a table.
- How are "sold over 12 millions albums" backed by the cites?
indopug (talk) 06:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Alright, I am going to reply to evert one of those in order:
- Now I don't know what to do with the dashes, because I have two different ways to do them. Please make up my mind, I don't know which dash to use.
- I'll work on that for you.
- Dido ↑
- I have two different users commenting on that one too, I don't know what to do with the certifiactions
- I'll take care of that.
- Dido ↑
- How do I know the catalouge number? Once I know wht to do with the dashes and certifications I will do this one.
- They have no b-sides, I checked a million times. If they did, I would buy the singles.
- I have no clue what is up with the sales thing, but I'll fix it.
- As soon as you reply you can consider it done. —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 07:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Frustrating getting a million different opinions, huh? =) Indopug is right, I was mistaken about the dashes thing. They should be the long ones after all: my mistake. The other suggestions he made also seem fine, even the one's that partly contradict my previous suggestions. They're fairly minor things anyways, so I'm willing to chalk that up to a difference in opinion. Anyways, good luck with getting it featured. Sorry if I've made it more difficult then it should be. Drewcifer (talk) 08:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay, I'll get to work on all of it in just a little bit. —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 19:26, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Frustrating getting a million different opinions, huh? =) Indopug is right, I was mistaken about the dashes thing. They should be the long ones after all: my mistake. The other suggestions he made also seem fine, even the one's that partly contradict my previous suggestions. They're fairly minor things anyways, so I'm willing to chalk that up to a difference in opinion. Anyways, good luck with getting it featured. Sorry if I've made it more difficult then it should be. Drewcifer (talk) 08:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- As soon as you reply you can consider it done. —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 07:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Everything is Done, but I don't know how to get the cataloage number. —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 21:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Performed at copy-edit [2] and removed the unreliable Sing365 ref. "Godsmack is the only band ever to have 14 singles debuting in the top ten on the Billboard charts." - where did you get that from? They have only 4 #1 singles in all! How was stewart replaced twice (once by d'arco and once by larkin)? Are you sure they didn't chart in the UK? So their singles contained just one song (no b-sides)? just check on AMG to confirm. Great job, by the way, these minor glitches (which I know you'll fix) won't be enough to stop me from giving my full support :) indopug (talk) 16:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Just check AMG or your CDs if the catalogue no is on them, else, forget about it. indopug (talk) 16:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the ce, I suck at those, lol. I just removed the 14 singles sentance, I cant' find a reliable source for it. I got rid of the D'Arco mention, because he is not notable for the discography, he played live with the a couple of times. Sorry, no B-sides, just album cuts. :P I got cat numbers though. All done. —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 01:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Just check AMG or your CDs if the catalogue no is on them, else, forget about it. indopug (talk) 16:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Performed at copy-edit [2] and removed the unreliable Sing365 ref. "Godsmack is the only band ever to have 14 singles debuting in the top ten on the Billboard charts." - where did you get that from? They have only 4 #1 singles in all! How was stewart replaced twice (once by d'arco and once by larkin)? Are you sure they didn't chart in the UK? So their singles contained just one song (no b-sides)? just check on AMG to confirm. Great job, by the way, these minor glitches (which I know you'll fix) won't be enough to stop me from giving my full support :) indopug (talk) 16:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks good. --Crzycheetah 21:01, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: There are four supports, and zero objections after over ten days. —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 22:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 08:28, 21 January 2008.
This is a list of episodes of the FLCL original video animation series. I believe it qualifies under the featured list criteria, as well as satisfying project-specific criteria such as WP:FICT. It is of similar or better status than similar anime episode lists such as List of Myself ; Yourself episodes, List of Fate/stay night episodes, and List of Devil May Cry episodes. The episode summaries are not excessive in length, and other relevant information is covered. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 08:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, good summaries, good introduction, and well sourced. Only minor note is I don't see a general source for the English titles? Amazing job getting that pulled together in such awesome shape so fast! Collectonian (talk) 08:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Added a source. It's a flash tab on the page, so there's no link to copy from, but it's there. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 08:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Ahh...I hate it when they do sites like that. *doh* Collectonian (talk) 08:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Nice summaries. Episodes are very confusing, but the summaries are easy to understand Rezumop (talk) 04:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks great. And I agree with Rezumop above, the summaries actually make sense! Drewcifer (talk) 15:02, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support per nom. BrokenSphereMsg me 06:54, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 15:46, 20 January 2008.
Self-nom. This list is of similar format to previously featured lists of football club players. It has had a peer review which unfortunately didn't attract a great deal of comment. I believe it satisfies the featured list criteria and would appreciate your views. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:53, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Sorry for missing the PR. It looks pretty good and I'll give a full review later but one thing that does spring out, is that I'd like to see a note on why those with less than 100 appearances are included, e.g. Eddy Stanley the first on the list. Peanut4 (talk) 20:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In general, the first few players in the list come under the category "Some players who have played fewer matches are also listed; this category comprises players from the club's early days, when they played fewer matches in a season ..." as mentioned in the opening paragraph. Those early players listed each played many more than 100 first-team games for the club, but before 1889, there was no league football and the only national competition was the FA Cup, so it wasn't possible for players to fulfil the basic criterion of 100 or more first-team matches in national and international competition. For instance, Stanley was in the club's first team for ten years, but they didn't play league football until his last season before retirement.
- Would you advise adding a note along the lines of the italicised sentence above? Struway2 (talk) 09:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I think each player with less than 100 games would benefit from a note. It isn't currently clear which are on for breaking records or other reasons cited. I like the notes for Morris, Charsley and Abbott and they help to annotate the list. I just feel they should also be included for the rest with less than 100 games - only another three that I can count. Peanut4 (talk) 23:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Notes added – what d'you reckon? Struway2 (talk) 00:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks good. I'll take a look at the rest later but that was probably the most necessary addition I'd spotted. Peanut4 (talk) 00:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Notes added – what d'you reckon? Struway2 (talk) 00:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I think each player with less than 100 games would benefit from a note. It isn't currently clear which are on for breaking records or other reasons cited. I like the notes for Morris, Charsley and Abbott and they help to annotate the list. I just feel they should also be included for the rest with less than 100 games - only another three that I can count. Peanut4 (talk) 23:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Would you advise adding a note along the lines of the italicised sentence above? Struway2 (talk) 09:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cracking list with plenty of good references and notes.
My only final comment would be whether it is necessary to bold nationalities to show players capped while at the club. Any player who was capped while at Birmingham has a figure in the caps column anyway so I don't think the bolding is necessary. Peanut4 (talk) 00:31, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It isn't necessary but I think it is helpful. The reasoning being, if the reader wants to know who was capped while at the club, the bolding lets them do so by looking down only the one column rather than two at once. Or if they're looking to see if a specific player was capped, he's easier to pick out if his name is bolded. Thanks for your suggestions and support. Struway2 (talk) 11:00, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm sorry I'll try that again, with brain connected this time. No idea why I was thinking of name rather than nationality.
- An early version didn't have number of caps at all, and the nationality was bolded as the only indication of a capped player. When I added number of caps in a separate column, the bolding remained. I'd agree it isn't now necessary, but still think it's better with than without, though would remove if there was a general view against it. As I said before, thanks for your suggestions and support. Struway2 (talk) 14:16, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - my comments at the PR were mainly dealt with and now all <100 appearance players have good explanatory footnotes justifying their inclusion I'm more than happy to offer my support. Great work. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- thanks for your comments at PR and for your support. Struway2 (talk) 09:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Begrudgingly, this Villa fan will support this. Couldn't see any problems, though I amended the image per WP:MOS#IMAGES. (Had to do something ;)!! Great work, well done. Woody (talk) 00:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- thanks for fixing the image and for your support Struway2 (talk) 09:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support from Dweller
Sorry I missed the PR. Been neglecting football recently, in favour of cricket. I'm doing a mild copy-edit; feel free to disagree with any of my changes. I'll list anything I think may be contentious or more major here:
- "less closely followed" I know what you mean, but it's ugly English. Can it just be disposed of? The reader can do the maths for himself.
I'll post here when I'm done. It will probably be after the weekend - hope that's OK. --Dweller (talk) 10:36, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I'm done surprisingly quickly. As I'll be off-wiki pretty soon, I'm happy to support on the assumption that the above will be dealt with. --Dweller (talk) 10:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for copyedit, couldn't disagree with any of your changes and have removed "less closely", and thanks for support. Struway2 (talk) 11:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 02:23, 19 January 2008.
I am nominating this list as I believe it meets all of the featured list requirements. The information is well sourced, it covers the episodes of the series in a usable format with succinct, but thorough episode summaries and related information on episode production and availability. AnmaFinotera (talk) 00:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support with reservations Everyting looks very good, but the episode summaries for the first two seasons are all very short. I'd like them a little longer. Also be sure that evrything is original and not taken form one of the many other online summaries. Great overall. Reywas92Talk 02:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've redone the first series episode summaries. Can you take a look and let me know if those are better? If so, I'll do series two and fix up series 3 the same way.AnmaFinotera (talk) 09:38, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks good, though it is shorter than other summaries, but it's fine. Full support once series 2 is done. Reywas92Talk 23:02, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Series 2 summaries done. AnmaFinotera (talk) 02:56, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I agree with the reservation above, as that makes the article look imbalanced. Also, it would help to very shortly introduce each character when he is first mentioned in the list. There are a couple of <ref>s before punctuation, when per MOS they come after, and there are some oversight punctuation mistakes in the intro. "As the show is UK based, seasons here" sounds non-neutral. I haven't read through the episode summaries, as I hope for a little expansion. The DVD section is lacking references completely. Good job otherwise. – sgeureka t•c 11:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll work on those other eissues today. For the UK paragraph, any suggestions for working it? It was put in because of issues with US editors changing the various Meerkat Manor articles to use US terms instead of the appropriate UK ones, even though the MOS says that being a UK show, we should use UK. AnmaFinotera (talk) 17:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- How about, "As the show is UK-based, seasons in this article are referred to as series" or "As the show is UK-based, this article refers to seasons as series". – sgeureka t•c 18:03, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Cool. I think I've fixed all of the issues except the episode summaries (working on). I've removed the Region 4 information as I could not find any confirmation for the existence of Region 4 DVDs from any of Australia's largest DVD sites nor the Australian Meerkat Manor site. It looks like an anon user had added it over a year ago back when the article was a single article, but they left no edit summary about a source. AnmaFinotera (talk) 02:05, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree with Reywas92 above. One or two sentences more for each summary in Season 2, and this list has my definative support. Good (and fast) job on the short introduction of each character. I'll probably copyedit the list later because I kind of have to admit to be interested in the "plot" now. – sgeureka t•c 00:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've finished up the series 2 summaries, and went in an wikified some of the meerkat names as well now that the character list has been reformatted to allow for it. AnmaFinotera (talk) 02:56, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments Looks good, but I have one suggestion and one question. First, the DVD tables would look better if the discs columns were center aligned. Second, why do some of the sources specify that they're in English? I think that's generally assumed unless otherwise. Drewcifer (talk) 14:47, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed the disc columns. For the sources...good question. Left overs from when I was first getting the hang of the cite tags is all I can think. I've cleared them all out now. :) AnmaFinotera (talk) 14:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks great. Drewcifer (talk) 01:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I have no further improvement suggestions, the samples I read sound good, the layout is good, and the sourcing is fine. – sgeureka t•c 15:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 02:23, 19 January 2008.
This is a list of episodes of the Night Wizard: The Animation anime. I believe it qualifies under the featured list criteria, as well as satisfying project-specific criteria such as WP:FICT. It is of similar or better status than similar anime episode lists such as List of Gunslinger Girl episodes, List of Kaze no Stigma episodes, and List of Tsukihime, Lunar Legend episodes. The episode summaries are not excessive in length, and other relevant information is covered. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 19:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CommentSupport, is there a source for the series being based on the game? Is a DVD with only one episode really a compilation? While it might seem obvious, it would probably be good to first mention that Geneon holds the region 1 license before noting they are releasing it to DVD (and to specify those are Region 1 DVDs, since English language releases can also include Region 2 and Region 4). :) Collectonian (talk) 19:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The anime being based on the game is always inferred, and I don't believe it's been necessary to source the statement. I don't know whether a one-episode DVD is a compilation or not. I adjusted to a more neutral one though. And I've mentioned that the DVDs are released in Japan, which is sufficient for your last concern. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 20:03, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, good change, because I thought they were Region 1 DVDs. :) Collectonian (talk) 20:30, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support (edit conflict). The OOU information seems complete, and while I haven't seen the show, the episode summaries also appear to be comprehensibly written. I notice that the series hasn't been licensed in the US, if/when it is some information about that should be added, but for now, I don't see any issues. Good work. --tjstrf talk 20:05, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks solid to me. Drewcifer (talk) 14:43, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 22:34, 17 January 2008.
Instead of a sports or media related FLC, this time I've got a music related one. There are a few drawbacks to it though. There is a lot of ugly whitespace in the table in the performers section, but it can't be helped. There are over 80 bands in that section so listing the performers in the way I did in the "Early influences" section isn't an option. If anyone has any good suggestions for that, I would gladly try to incorporate it. I decided to mention that the Hall of Fame has received a lot of criticism becuase much of this criticism relates to the inductees and I felt it was worth mentioning here. The final drawback is a lack of images of the inductees, but I had some good reasons. Many of the images of artists performing are not very good, plus there was no room in the performers section, and I couldn't find any free ones for those in any of the other sections. -- Scorpion0422 01:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, as I think it looks very good and seems very well sourced; I did find an obvious typo in the lead, so please give it a thorough copyedit. I don't think individually citing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's website for each performer is really necessary. They could all link to the same footnote. Regarding the white space, I'd suggest using a conditional template parameter like I did at list of Caribbean drums for the empty columns for the "see other entry" rows, so that the empty row is a little off-color and has a dash in it or something like that. Tuf-Kat (talk) 03:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- About the citations, they are only used for bands because citations are needed for which members were inducted. As for the list of Caribbean drums, that looks really good, but I don't know if it would work here. -- Scorpion0422 03:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment In general, looks pretty good. I do have a few suggestions though.
- The year column is a little off-kilter: center aligning everything would make it look much better.
- Any direct quotations (mostly quotes describing what each type of induction is) should be cited. Done
- Since there's 100 in-line citations, I'd recommend putting it all into two or maybe three columns. Done
- There's alot of cases of more than one citation for the same source. i.e. multiple instances for The Doors, Lynard Skynard, etc. Done
- "List" in the first sentence shouldn't be capitalized. Done
- "Starting in 1986" is redundant since we already know the HOF was started in 1986. Done
- "a lot of criticism" is POV. Who's to say it's alot? I'd say just take out the word. Done
- The multiple inductees table might benefit from a "Number of inductions" column or something like that.Drewcifer (talk) 04:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not entirely sure about that, because only Eric Clapton has been inducted more than twice, and this is mentioned in the opening paragraph of that section. -- Scorpion0422 06:07, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Fair enough, ignore that last bullet point. Drewcifer (talk) 10:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Well organized, well cited, well done. I have only two questions: For the inductees not in the main list (i.e. non-performers), would it be possible to put those lists into multiple columns to eliminate white space? If this isn't possible for dynamic lists, then ignore this idea, but I'd like to see the article be a bit shorter top-to-bottom and not have so much blank space. Second, would it be possible to get a couple more free use images? As Clapton is the only three-time inductee (one of my favorite music trivia facts), how about a picture of him somewhere? Or do we have any images of the actual walls that list / have the signatures of the inductees? In any case, this is definitely of featured quality. -- Mike (Kicking222) 20:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll try to add a few images, but like I said, there aren't many free images of the non-performers, and it doesn't make sense to include images of performers in other sections, but I'll add one of Clapton to the multiple inductee section. -- Scorpion0422 22:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The Clapton one is not just appropriate, but definitely makes, at the very least, that section look a lot better. -- Mike (Kicking222) 05:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, but do you think I should add images of performer inductees into the non-performer sections? -- Scorpion0422 20:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The Clapton one is not just appropriate, but definitely makes, at the very least, that section look a lot better. -- Mike (Kicking222) 05:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll try to add a few images, but like I said, there aren't many free images of the non-performers, and it doesn't make sense to include images of performers in other sections, but I'll add one of Clapton to the multiple inductee section. -- Scorpion0422 22:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- COMMENT Can you link the text a little more.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 01:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Any examples or suggestions? -- Scorpion0422 04:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It seems a phrase like this: "influential artists, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry" should have some links for example.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 16:06, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- CommentIs this being addressed?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It seems a phrase like this: "influential artists, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry" should have some links for example.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 16:06, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Any examples or suggestions? -- Scorpion0422 04:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OBJECTLack of responsiveness to issues raised.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- I can see how well you checked to see if your concerns have been addressed. Several links were been added to the lead since you brought up your concern, with the most recent being five days ago. Pardon me if I didn't provide an up to the minute update on this page. -- Scorpion0422 20:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Are you seriously objecting because this page has not been constantly updated? Oh, and capital letters denotes shouting Tony. Woody (talk) 21:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- My objection remains for lack of linking of important terms. Words like "Music", "record" and "Genre" should be linked in an article like this. The word "museum" would be well placed in the first sentence and linked. Also, given the procedural controversies terms like "criteria", "committee", "candidate", "induction", "vote", etc. might be linked. I only object because this was not addressed in response to a mere comment. I fail to understand the need for Scorpions sarcasm to this request as if it is a request made out of some sort of idolatry of bluelinks. This article is not properly wikified to represent the best of WP and fails as a FL until these types of issues are addressed. I should not have to run through an article this short and name every word that should be linked. It should be obvious that for an article like this certain words must be linked.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 21:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If it is short Tony, then it should be no bother to see if your objections have been fixed. We are not wikitionary Tony, and wikilink vote would be as much worth as wikilinking "the". As wikipedia does not provide dictionary definitions, it would have to be interwiki bluelinks anyway. Woody (talk) 22:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I have nothing against interwiki links in articles, but do not know the preferred policy. "Voting" clearly has an article. The second list above was for the editors discretion. The first list with "music" and such needed definite action.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I just think it's a silly thing to oppose over, because I linked to everything you had previously suggested and figured your concern was addressed. If you had noticed any other words that need linking, you could have done it yourself. I've linked to some of the words, but I think adding links to "criteria" doesn't apply here because linking to that article would not provide any more information that would necessarily relate to this article. Same with committee, candidate, induction and vote. However, I have added links to music and record. -- Scorpion0422 23:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- At this point you have linked the important previously unlinked terms ("music", "record" and "genre") and given thought to others. This is what I had hoped for with my original comment. I have now withdrawn my objection.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I just think it's a silly thing to oppose over, because I linked to everything you had previously suggested and figured your concern was addressed. If you had noticed any other words that need linking, you could have done it yourself. I've linked to some of the words, but I think adding links to "criteria" doesn't apply here because linking to that article would not provide any more information that would necessarily relate to this article. Same with committee, candidate, induction and vote. However, I have added links to music and record. -- Scorpion0422 23:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I have nothing against interwiki links in articles, but do not know the preferred policy. "Voting" clearly has an article. The second list above was for the editors discretion. The first list with "music" and such needed definite action.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If it is short Tony, then it should be no bother to see if your objections have been fixed. We are not wikitionary Tony, and wikilink vote would be as much worth as wikilinking "the". As wikipedia does not provide dictionary definitions, it would have to be interwiki bluelinks anyway. Woody (talk) 22:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I can see how well you checked to see if your concerns have been addressed. Several links were been added to the lead since you brought up your concern, with the most recent being five days ago. Pardon me if I didn't provide an up to the minute update on this page. -- Scorpion0422 20:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In the Year column could you mention each year only once and thicken the horizontal border between different years? I think it'll be better then because it'll compartmentalise the inductees of different years. indopug (talk) 17:16, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- But then the table would be unsortable. -- Scorpion0422 17:33, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmm... But does it need to be sortable? I find the sorting of the inducted members column to completely pointless; it depends on which order those names are written for a particular entry and as such cannot be useful in any way. As for sorting of the bands, is that really necessary? What purpose could it achieve? If the reader is looking for an entry, he could use the search function in his browser. indopug (talk) 17:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Not everyone knows how to search a page though, you have to remember that. Just becausse it seems pointless to you, it doesn't mean that others won't find it useful. -- Scorpion0422 17:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmm... But does it need to be sortable? I find the sorting of the inducted members column to completely pointless; it depends on which order those names are written for a particular entry and as such cannot be useful in any way. As for sorting of the bands, is that really necessary? What purpose could it achieve? If the reader is looking for an entry, he could use the search function in his browser. indopug (talk) 17:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- But then the table would be unsortable. -- Scorpion0422 17:33, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Whilst I would have liked more images, I understand and accept your reasoning. The images that are supplied do add to the list. Other than that, seems good. Woody (talk) 20:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Like I said, I could add images of Performers to the other sections. Would you like me to try that? -- Scorpion0422 20:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I would say add one to each performer section, as long as they are of fairly good quality, like the Clapton one. As I said, it is not a disqualifier for me. I think excessive images can ruin the flow of the page, it is about balance. Woody (talk) 20:53, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay, I've added some images of various inductees to the appropriate sections. The Sidemen and lifetime achievement sections still have none. -- Scorpion0422 00:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- No more needed, it is perfectly adequate. I wouldn't have expected any in the other sections. Looks good. Woody (talk) 01:00, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay, I've added some images of various inductees to the appropriate sections. The Sidemen and lifetime achievement sections still have none. -- Scorpion0422 00:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I would say add one to each performer section, as long as they are of fairly good quality, like the Clapton one. As I said, it is not a disqualifier for me. I think excessive images can ruin the flow of the page, it is about balance. Woody (talk) 20:53, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Like I said, I could add images of Performers to the other sections. Would you like me to try that? -- Scorpion0422 20:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks great. Although, as I mentioned above, center aligning the Year column would make it look much better. Everything else looks good though. Drewcifer (talk) 08:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 05:32, 13 January 2008.
Self-nom. Recently totally revamped the article to conform with the other ice hockey Featured Lists, Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, and New Jersey Devils, as part of the goal of WP:HOCKEY to get all team player lists to FL status. List is stable, accurate, clear images, and the like. Kaiser matias (talk) 08:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks great, nice pictures too! CameronCrazie56 (talk) 00:05, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, though it would be nice to eliminate the red links for missing players. Resolute 22:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I started to fix all that up, though it will take a bit of time to get pages created for all the players. Kaiser matias (talk) 03:54, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And that is finished. All redlinks are now gone, replaced by crude stubs at its worst. Kaiser matias (talk) 05:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Conditional support - Looks good, but to get it more in line with Colorado and New Jersey's lists, the current players should be in bold, with the line "Debuted during the 2007-08 NHL season, currently in progress" used. Also, I'm noting several discrepancies between the FLs. I will bring this up with WP:ICEHOCKY to smooth out the minor differences. Other than that, it looks fantastic, kudos. Anthony Hit me up... 23:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I offered my views on the subject, and as such I'm going to keep from making any changes until we reach a consensus. Look forward to making that a full support in the next few days. Kaiser matias (talk) 01:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 05:32, 13 January 2008.
I published this a few weeks ago, following the format of featured List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and I believe it passes all of the FL criteria. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The numbers are inconsistent. I see "four" and "$50 million" in the same sentence. Other than that, it looks good. Juliancolton (talk) 20:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Please read the MOS, as this follows how numbers 0-9 should be spelled out, while 10+ should just be the numbers. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, the intro appears to be completely unsourced, which is a shame when the rest is so well sourced. Also, any particular reason for having the ACE Ranking as a separate small table at the bottom instead of listed with each hurricane entry? Collectonian (talk) 01:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The lede is just a summary of the article, so sources there are not needed. Also, the reason for the ACE Ranking being separate is because that is the table used for all other hurricane season articles; as the 2003 season article is different from most others, the table was put in this article. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Normally, that is true on the lead, but for lists, the lead also must provide context for the list which includes information not summed up by the list, such as the dates of the hurricane series. The Wikipedia guidelines on leads do not say no citations, only no need for redundant sourcing. Stuff that is not specifically repeated with a source in the list should be sourced. Collectonian (talk) 02:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, ok. I got them. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Cool. Support :) Collectonian (talk) 05:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, ok. I got them. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Normally, that is true on the lead, but for lists, the lead also must provide context for the list which includes information not summed up by the list, such as the dates of the hurricane series. The Wikipedia guidelines on leads do not say no citations, only no need for redundant sourcing. Stuff that is not specifically repeated with a source in the list should be sourced. Collectonian (talk) 02:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The lede is just a summary of the article, so sources there are not needed. Also, the reason for the ACE Ranking being separate is because that is the table used for all other hurricane season articles; as the 2003 season article is different from most others, the table was put in this article. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
CommentThe links from "The Royal Gazette" don't work. Maybe it's temporary, but still... --Crzycheetah 08:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- Thanks, I updated the links. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I love this kind of lists where each item is explained in one pragraph. Well done!--Crzycheetah 21:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, I updated the links. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Very well done, great illustrations, meets all the criteria!
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The list was promoted 05:32, 13 January 2008.
On December 20, 2007, Marian Gaborik of the Minnesota Wild scored five goals in a single game against the New York Rangers. After some discussion at WT:HOCKEY, we realised that Wikipedia was missing such an important list; after, this feat has been done only 42 times in 90 years, and 6 players account for 18 of these times. User:Krm500 started to work on this list, and I added enough prose to qualify for DYK, and some refs, and I think this list is worthy of featured list status. Maxim(talk) 14:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment
- Shouldn't this page be called List of players with five or more goals in an NHL game? Peanut4 (talk) 21:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think so, because most, if not all, of the pages similar to this one use this naming convention. Maxim(talk) 23:05, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you provide some examples, please? --Crzycheetah 23:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I was thinking of five to be in line with WP:MOSNUM that numbers from zero to nine are spelt out, and although that says for numbers in the main body of text, I don't see why the title should be any different. Peanut4 (talk) 23:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think so, because most, if not all, of the pages similar to this one use this naming convention. Maxim(talk) 23:05, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I was thinking about List of National Hockey League players with 1000 games played, List of National Hockey League players with 1000 points, List of National Hockey League players with 500 goals, but per MOSNUM, I do think that 5 should be spelled out. Maxim(talk) 15:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You should add this list to Template:NHL topics. Baldrick90 (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The slam.canoe.ca link is "404 not found" and isn't well formatted. Is it a reliable source, by the way? (Wiki article: canoe.ca, redirects to "Canadian Online Explorer"). --kingboyk (talk) 20:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Strange, it's the first Google hit. I have replaced it with the book reference, it's in there as well. canoe.ca is a chain of websites that are reliable news sources. Maxim(talk) 21:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Books. Unfashionable but good :) Nice one, thanks for the quick response. --kingboyk (talk) 22:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Strange, it's the first Google hit. I have replaced it with the book reference, it's in there as well. canoe.ca is a chain of websites that are reliable news sources. Maxim(talk) 21:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Being the one who requested the article, I'm still suprised that there is so little available on the subject, including not being listed in the NHL Record Book. I was suprised at how fast the article was created, and how excellent a piece of work it was. Kaiser matias (talk) 04:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I used an NHL guide to further reference it. It was a little list taking about a third of a page in a 500-600 page book. Maxim(talk) 14:40, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Five goals in one game—that's some accomplishment! Good to see it recognized on WP. Nice clean list, and nice use of photos. I like the use of sortable columns too. MeegsC | Talk 11:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- comment This is not a list of players, it's a list of games with five goals by a player. A list fo players doesn't need to list the same playter 3-4 times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Circeus (talk • contribs) 18:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry for the delay in responding, I missed this on watchlist initially. What do you suggest be done? The list can be reogranized, in alphebatic order by player (but we kinda have sorting tables for that ;-) ) or renaming it again. Maxim(talk) 22:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Meets all criteria of a FL. Well formated, complete, good use of images. Resolute 01:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 05:32, 13 January 2008.
Self-nomination. Modeled mainly on:
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland
I've changed this to this. If you have any questions or comments, feel free. Best regards, Rt. 11:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment This is a vast improvement; nice work! There are a couple of things you might want to address:
- Footnotes C and D are difficult to understand as they are currently worded. Can you perhaps try reworking them?
- Done - If they are still unreadable, get in touch. Rudget. 13:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm still not quite clear on how a very small reserve (footnote C) can end up with two grid references just because it's small. Surely that only happens if it spans two squares?
- True, but this is what was given by te PDF. Rudget. 16:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I understand that the PDF gives two grid references. However your footnote says "Those SSSIs with more than one OS grid reference have either one of two things; an extended area which is unable to be referenced by a single co-ordinate or it maybe too small." Where did you find the reference that says a park may have two listed references because "it may be too small"? That's the part I'm wondering about. That explanation is contrary to how I understand the National Grid working, so I just want to be sure it's a correct explanation before I give my support to the article! : ) Thanks for taking the previous suggestions on board. MeegsC | Talk 19:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Would you be able to provide an acceptable footnote. It'd be gladly accepted. :) Rudget. 19:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking at the maps provided by the list's links, it appears that all the reserves with two grid references are composed of multiple (generally two) sections, separated by non-reserve land. So I guess I'd suggest something like "Those SSSIs with more than one OS grid reference are composed of multiple sections, separated by non-SSSI land." I don't think you need to get into details about grid reference letters (and eastings and northings, etc.). People can click on the wiki-link if they want to learn more about the National Grid and how to use it. MeegsC | Talk 00:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, that sounds good. I'll add that now. Rudget. 16:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I understand that the PDF gives two grid references. However your footnote says "Those SSSIs with more than one OS grid reference have either one of two things; an extended area which is unable to be referenced by a single co-ordinate or it maybe too small." Where did you find the reference that says a park may have two listed references because "it may be too small"? That's the part I'm wondering about. That explanation is contrary to how I understand the National Grid working, so I just want to be sure it's a correct explanation before I give my support to the article! : ) Thanks for taking the previous suggestions on board. MeegsC | Talk 19:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In footnote D, I'd suggest you drop the second sentence. The first sentence explains the date perfectly well, and the second just confuses things.
- I'm still not quite clear on how a very small reserve (footnote C) can end up with two grid references just because it's small. Surely that only happens if it spans two squares?
- In the reference section, the list of reserves appears to be in several different sizes. Any reason for that? Also, there probably shouldn't be full stops after the names.
- It appears like that for two reasons: 1) It would be too large it was full size 2) Those lists mentioned above use the same sizing. Rudget. 00:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done - I hadn't realised you could make the references section smaller, seen as I've never had to do it. :P Rudget. 15:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It appears like that for two reasons: 1) It would be too large it was full size 2) Those lists mentioned above use the same sizing. Rudget. 00:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The reference for Chingford Reservoirs says there are 316.3 acres in the Greater London area, with a further 75 acres in Essex; should the total (391.3 acres), or only the Greater London area, be included here?
- Y Agreed. My mistake. Rudget. 00:25, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Footnotes C and D are difficult to understand as they are currently worded. Can you perhaps try reworking them?
- MeegsC | Talk 22:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice job. And thanks for addressing my various concerns! MeegsC | Talk 16:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Meets the criteria and follows the the format of similar lists. Excellent work. Suicidalhamster (talk) 13:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great work, list is up to par with others of this subject. Good job!
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The list was promoted 02:30, 10 January 2008.
OCNative created this list in January 2006. I added parser functions so that it updates itself, and added sortability by name or time. The list is complete (all 110 justices) and accurate (referenced, too), and I think it meets the qualifications of a featured list. Coemgenus 15:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I would prefer to see a Notes section using {{cite web}} than the ref section.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:32, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you mean a separate note for each Justice? The information all comes from the same two sources. Or do you just want me to change the format of the reference? Coemgenus 18:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Just change the format.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 02:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think they already are in that format. I copied them from a similar page, List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, checked to see that the websites were still there, and updated the access dates. Coemgenus 15:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What I mean is that inline citations are preferred to page links in a general reference section.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Citations are now in-line. Coemgenus 14:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- What I mean is that inline citations are preferred to page links in a general reference section.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think they already are in that format. I copied them from a similar page, List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, checked to see that the websites were still there, and updated the access dates. Coemgenus 15:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Just change the format.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 02:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you mean a separate note for each Justice? The information all comes from the same two sources. Or do you just want me to change the format of the reference? Coemgenus 18:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak Oppose. As in all FLs, the list should have a suitable lead. You should first mention what the blue rows mean (even if it's obvious), and add some interesting facts about this subject (the longest term, the first...) CG (talk) 15:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I'll work on that this week. I wasn't sure how much of a lead was necessary, since the title kind of explains the point of the list, but I'm new to the Featured List arena, so what do I know? Coemgenus 15:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I've attempted a longer lede, explaing the range and the row colours. Will (talk) 01:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Will -- thanks, that says it all, I think. Coemgenus 15:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:LEAD could still be beefed up. Explain does first day start with day nomination is approved, day they are sworn in, day they first sit on the court, day they issue their first order, or what have you. Possibly same confusion for last date, (death date, resignation date, last order date, if they take a medical absence before dieing what is last date).--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I explained that, based on the info in the Supreme Court source. Coemgenus 14:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:LEAD could still be beefed up. Explain does first day start with day nomination is approved, day they are sworn in, day they first sit on the court, day they issue their first order, or what have you. Possibly same confusion for last date, (death date, resignation date, last order date, if they take a medical absence before dieing what is last date).--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Will -- thanks, that says it all, I think. Coemgenus 15:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I've attempted a longer lede, explaing the range and the row colours. Will (talk) 01:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I'll work on that this week. I wasn't sure how much of a lead was necessary, since the title kind of explains the point of the list, but I'm new to the Featured List arena, so what do I know? Coemgenus 15:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment When you said this updates itself, did you mean that Souter would move ahead of Berger on the list in two weeks or just the number of days will update itself?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 19:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Unfortunately, the latter. Now that it's sortable, someone could sort them by number of days, but the rank will have to be updated manually. I'm not sure how to make the rank automatically correspond to the number of days. Coemgenus 21:11, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- comment Unless the 'Rank' column can be made into an auto-calculated number, maybe the rank column should just be removed. Hmains (talk) 01:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I think the rank column is useful. This table will just take a little rearranging every so often. Many list require updating every so often. I was just asking for clarification.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 14:50, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I would love for it to be auto-calculated, but I could not figure out how to achieve this result. In the meantime, I don't mind updating it. Coemgenus 15:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I understand the usefulness of rank and withdraw my idea of deleting the column Hmains (talk) 01:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- SUPPORT My suggestions have been handled well.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 20:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: with two questions/comments: a) One or two more images, if they're available, would fill that space. b) Can the last column be sortable as well - as in "sort by start date"? Otherwise, very nice list. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 02:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the support.
I think that sorting by start date is possible, but will take some extensive editing. If I restored the sortablilty now, it would sort alphabetically -- April, August, etc. -- but I may work on that if I have time this week.As for the pics, I could certainly add a few more. Coemgenus 14:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]- Actually, it turns out sorting by date won't work because (1) the changing dates of the current Justices don't mesh with the sort template, and (2) two Justices had two separate terms each, making two separate start dates. Coemgenus 14:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I added a pic of Justice Stevens, the longest-serving of the current Justices. Coemgenus 15:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, it turns out sorting by date won't work because (1) the changing dates of the current Justices don't mesh with the sort template, and (2) two Justices had two separate terms each, making two separate start dates. Coemgenus 14:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the support.
- Support. My only thought is that it is unnecessary to have both the rank and the length of term columns as sortable, since they produce the same result! BencherliteTalk 22:48, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Nice list! And it looks like the review process helped to make it an even better (e.g. more complete) one. MeegsC | Talk 09:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Good list. Meets FLC. Rudget. 19:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - A very nice list. Good job! It seems as though all complaints brought up have been resolved and I can't think of anything bad to say about it so I will happily support this fine list. Silver Sonic Shadow (talk) 01:14, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 02:17, 10 January 2008.
This is a list of episodes of the Blue Drop: Tenshitachi no Gikyoku anime. I believe it qualifies under the featured list criteria, as well as satisfying project-specific criteria such as WP:FICT. It is of similar or better status than similar anime episode lists such as List of Fate/stay night episodes, List of Devil May Cry episodes, and List of Tsukihime, Lunar Legend episodes. The episode summaries are not excessive in length, and other relevant information is covered. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 09:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, good episode coverage and all relevant info seems to be properly sourced. My only minor note would be to consider rewording this sentence as it reads a little awkwardly: "Unlike the titles of most Japanese anime episodes, the titles are given in English instead of the customary Japanese, with each episode title the name of a flower shown in the episode." Collectonian (talk) 09:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, it's well written and properly referenced. Kazu-kun (talk) 18:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks good to me. Job well done. Drewcifer (talk) 06:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 02:17, 10 January 2008.
I've spent quite a bit of time knocking this list into shape. Soccerbase.com, which is unreliable for older data, has only been used for stats post-1999. Anyway, let me know what you think......... ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great list, issues I had were cleared up in the Peer Review, well done! NapHit (talk) 15:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, although I don't understand the sentence "Pulis also took the team to the final of the play-offs for promotion to the second tier of the Football League, now known as Division One, in the 1998–99 season." In 1998–99, Division One was the top tier of the Football League (as the Premier League has never been part of the organisation known as the Football League), in which case the sentence should read "Pulis also took the team to the final of the play-offs for promotion to the second tier of the Football League, then-known as Division One, in the 1998–99 season." However, if you were indeed referring to the second tier of the Football League, which was Division Two in those days, then the sentence should read "Pulis also took the team to the final of the play-offs for promotion to the second tier of the Football League, now known as League One, in the 1998–99 season," with "League One" linking to Football League One, rather than Football League First Division. – PeeJay 18:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I see your point, and there is a factual issue. I'll leave it to CtD to come up with a phrasing, but the near promotion was to what is now the Championship. I would propose something like: Pulis subsequently took the team to the final of the play-offs for promotion to the [[Football League First Division|second tier of English football]], now known as "The Championship", in the 1998–99 season. Kevin McE (talk) 00:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Corrected ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I see your point, and there is a factual issue. I'll leave it to CtD to come up with a phrasing, but the near promotion was to what is now the Championship. I would propose something like: Pulis subsequently took the team to the final of the play-offs for promotion to the [[Football League First Division|second tier of English football]], now known as "The Championship", in the 1998–99 season. Kevin McE (talk) 00:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments This list follows the format used in previously promoted association football manager lists. It appears well referenced and clearly recognises the Soccerbase and caretaker problems. I'd expect to support this nomination once the points below are considered.
- You may want to say when Clark got them back into the Football League.
- Done
- You may want to wikilink promotion (or relegated) the first time it occurs. Also link playoffs (there are articles for each division).
- Done
- The P/W/D/L numeric columns would be clearer if centred rather than left-aligned, similarly the win percentage.
- Done
- You say Exact dates of appointment for many managers appointed during the summer break between seasons are not known, but don't actually supply exact dates for any manager, even for recent appointments. Do you have a reason for not giving exact dates where known? If you're sticking with months, you may want to amend the note to say Exact months of appointment...
- Done I used months only as I thought it would look silly and inconsistent to have full dates only for the most recent few
- Would you consider using normal rather than small font size in the Honours column?
- Done
- If Onuora and Docherty was a joint appointment for five matches, should they appear in the list together for those five matches, and then Onuora on his own for the next five?
- Done corrected the stats too, which were out by one match.....
- Some of your Notes are missing full stops.
- Done
- Is the Independent article in the References section meant to reference something specific (start of Smillie's appointment, perhaps)? If so, shouldn't it be linked to that piece of information?
- Done
- Seeing as your NotW annual references include ISBNs, I've just had a serious look for one on my copy of 1996/7 and found it carefully hidden under a sticky label on the front cover. Am just off to amend a couple of reference sections elsewhere. Thanks for that! cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorted a few, will do the rest later but really should get on with some work now :-) ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All sorted now, I believe ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorted a few, will do the rest later but really should get on with some work now :-) ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Now happy to Support. Well done, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:26, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support though I'm not a great fan of the start/end dates, particularly Summer 1906, etc. I know why they are such because of the reliability of sources but would like to see over time this be improve. Though it's not anywhere near a big enough problem to stop me supporting this entry. Also can you qualify the honours section by adding a year to the wins? Oherwise great list. Peanut4 (talk) 15:38, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've added dates to the honours. If any more detailed information on the exact appointment dates of managers does come to light, I will certainly add it in..... ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment very close to support (and apologies for missing the peer review) but a couple of things stood out before I can support...
- "...was to hold the ..." why not just "held"?
- You could accentuate John MacMillan's non-Englishness by adding "Scotsman" beforehand (just an idea)...
- "Pulis was sacked immediately after this ..." seems odd since he just got promotion, is it worth trying to explain why (if there was any logic to it?)
- [7] is the only note not placed in notes column, while I understand it relates to referencing the date, its positioning a bit anomolous with the rest of the article's notes. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All changed per your comments ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't wish to be awkward (would I?!) but now Pulis has a reason for dismissal and a potentiallly controversial one at that, it probably would be best with a citation. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yup, Done that :-) ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't wish to be awkward (would I?!) but now Pulis has a reason for dismissal and a potentiallly controversial one at that, it probably would be best with a citation. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All changed per your comments ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support it is then. Well done once again. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:52, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Yep, can't find any problems. Meets criteria and follows precedent. Woody (talk) 15:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 02:17, 10 January 2008.
Self-nomination. Another tallest building list, modeled after FLs such as List of tallest buildings in Boston and List of tallest buildings in Detroit. I believe it to meet all FL criteria, in that it is comprehensive, stable, well-referenced, well-organized, useful, and complete. As always, any concerns brought up here will be addressed. Thanks, Rai-me 05:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- do it Excellent list, heading and references. I fixed two spelling errors. Hmains (talk) 02:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Another great list. VerruckteDan (talk) 16:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Conditional Support Looks great, only thing I noticed that was awry was that the general reference (Emporis.com - Tulsa) should be put into {{cite web}} format. I'll be happy to give my support once that is taken care of.Drewcifer (talk) 06:53, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Done - Good idea. I'll change it for the other tallest building featured lists as well. Thanks, Rai-me 21:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 01:41, 9 January 2008.
Support I created this list using two other featured lists as a models: Cleveland Browns seasons and New England Patriots seasons. Recently I've been adding a lot to it and I feel it meets the criteria. Yes I know there are red-links but those can be fixed later on, I've worked really hard just to get the Indianapolis's half of the seasons done. I can always make pages for the Baltimore half. Please feel free to make any suggestions for improvements, I would really appreciate your support. HoosierState 20:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeRight now it fails criterion one, it does not "bring together a group of existing articles related by well-defined entry criteria." Saying that something can be fixed after a list will become a WP:FL is oxymoronic. The point of FL is to bring a complete list that meets all the criteria now, not later on. If that was the case then every list would be featured with the condition that one day it will meet the criteria. Create each season article (notice that both examples you brought here, and Green Bay Packers seasons, which is a FLC below all have each season article created. Also, the page lacks good formatting. The table looks all messed up right now, and the formatting isnt consistent with other seasons lists. It seems also that the page is not stable as it is still undergoing change. The intro could easily be expanded, and I am sure there could be a photo in this list, like maybe a photo of Manning saying he was the main reason for their recent success. There needs to be more notes about the individual seasons. Basically this list needs a lot of work to be done before it is ready to be featured.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 21:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- No offense or anything but formatting wise it isn't really different than New England Patriots seasons or Cleveland Browns seasons. A picture could be added yes, I just didn't think it needed one since hardly any other FL seasons have pictures (exception Green Bay). Also I have been working out of my mind just to try and complete the Indianapolis half of the seasons. Lastly there really isn't a whole lot to talk about on each season. HoosierState 21:54, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- None taken :-) Right now though, the table is broken in three separate places and there are other formatting issues. I have made some changes to formatting to show you what I think would look better. I also feel that Chicago Bears seasons is a much better list to base future lists off of. My statement still stands about expanding the intro in line with the Bears and Packers seasons lists, it also seems the list isnt still terribly stable so its hard to base a decision off of a constantly changing list. Thats why we like stability of a list before it is brought here. I like the photo you added though. The notes about the individual seasons is of course subjective and is not a huge point, I just find it hard to believe that there isn't anything else that has happened during their seasons that is memorable, interesting, weird, etc that could be mentioned. And my main point still stands, only 27 of the teams 54 seasons have been created, including 4 championship season years that are missing articles. This is very important and my main reason for opposing right now.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 23:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- The changes look great! I didn't really think of those sort of changes. I myself am done changing things in the list (until another Colts game is in the books) so the list is going to stablize (I sound like a dork, haha). You just happened to look at the list right when I was adding the awards column. Right now I'm complete the seasons mode, I've made 4 Baltimore Colts season in about an hour and a half, and plan to work til late and up again early tomorrow so all of the seasons should be complete in a day or so (and they're not just stubs by the way ;-)). Please come back and reevaluate your vote once the list is complete. HoosierState 23:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Haha I will come back, and don't worry when I did the Packers season list I had to create about 65 season articles!!! Just try to have this stuff for your next FLC, then things will go a lot better. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions or if you need any help.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 00:03, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Haha I will come back, and don't worry when I did the Packers season list I had to create about 65 season articles!!! Just try to have this stuff for your next FLC, then things will go a lot better. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions or if you need any help.
- The changes look great! I didn't really think of those sort of changes. I myself am done changing things in the list (until another Colts game is in the books) so the list is going to stablize (I sound like a dork, haha). You just happened to look at the list right when I was adding the awards column. Right now I'm complete the seasons mode, I've made 4 Baltimore Colts season in about an hour and a half, and plan to work til late and up again early tomorrow so all of the seasons should be complete in a day or so (and they're not just stubs by the way ;-)). Please come back and reevaluate your vote once the list is complete. HoosierState 23:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- None taken :-) Right now though, the table is broken in three separate places and there are other formatting issues. I have made some changes to formatting to show you what I think would look better. I also feel that Chicago Bears seasons is a much better list to base future lists off of. My statement still stands about expanding the intro in line with the Bears and Packers seasons lists, it also seems the list isnt still terribly stable so its hard to base a decision off of a constantly changing list. Thats why we like stability of a list before it is brought here. I like the photo you added though. The notes about the individual seasons is of course subjective and is not a huge point, I just find it hard to believe that there isn't anything else that has happened during their seasons that is memorable, interesting, weird, etc that could be mentioned. And my main point still stands, only 27 of the teams 54 seasons have been created, including 4 championship season years that are missing articles. This is very important and my main reason for opposing right now.
- No offense or anything but formatting wise it isn't really different than New England Patriots seasons or Cleveland Browns seasons. A picture could be added yes, I just didn't think it needed one since hardly any other FL seasons have pictures (exception Green Bay). Also I have been working out of my mind just to try and complete the Indianapolis half of the seasons. Lastly there really isn't a whole lot to talk about on each season. HoosierState 21:54, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I got bored so I created the rest of the articles using your prior seasons as a template. You would still need to add the regular season schedule/results, but I added everything else. So now that all of my concerns have been addressed, I am glad to support, good work.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 11:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks so much for your work, I kind of stalled over the New Years holiday. I will complete the seasons ASAP. Thanks for your support/help as well. HoosierState 21:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- NP, I was too awake last night to go to sleep, and I was bored when I got home. That combo meant I needed to kill some time on the Wiki :-) so I figured I would help you out a bit. Good luck in the nom.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 21:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply] - Everything is complete, every season (with results) and as far as I'm concerned the table is as good as it gets. HoosierState 07:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- NP, I was too awake last night to go to sleep, and I was bored when I got home. That combo meant I needed to kill some time on the Wiki :-) so I figured I would help you out a bit. Good luck in the nom.
- Support Looks great to me! Good work, HoosierState! -- JTHolla! 16:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Like I said for Green Bay Packers season this looks comparable to other FL NFL seasons. Like the color too, great work Hoosier. CameronCrazie56 (talk) 00:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great job, HoosierState! That must have taken a lot of time creating all of those tables for every article. The only thing missing is in-line citations. I know that's hard for this, but the general refs at the bottom technically isn't enough. Still great! Reywas92Talk 03:07, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I was going to reference some stuff (specifically the line Much of this recent success is attributed to the trio of Bill Polian, Tony Dungy, and Peyton Manning.) but they kept ending up in the Notes section and I didn't want that. So I just left them unmarked. If there is way to fix that I will be glad to reference everything. P.S. yes it was very time consuming, I worked for about 5 days total on that :P. HoosierState 03:44, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 19:32, 8 January 2008.
This is a list of episodes of the Myself ; Yourself anime. I believe it qualifies under the featured list criteria, as well as satisfying project-specific criteria such as WP:FICT. It is of similar or better status than similar anime episode lists such as List of Hitohira episodes, List of Kaze no Stigma episodes, and List of Claymore episodes. The episode summaries are not excessive in length, and other relevant information is covered. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 03:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, Can you make it so that the picture does not overlap the table? Nikki311 23:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- On my screen resolution, it's fine. Adding a {{-}} will create too much space in my opinion. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 23:38, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- There is another way to do it so the table of contents doesn't get moved down, too. I had to look it up, but I fixed it for you. It doesn't add too much space, but if you really don't like it, you can always undo. Nikki311 20:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- That looks fine. Thanks, Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 21:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks up to par with your many other episodes lists. Good work and keep them coming!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 07:18, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply] - Support: Looks good! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 02:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, good introduction and the episode summaries are brief but thorough. Kinda wish it was licensed, sounds interesting :) Collectonian (talk) 00:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 19:32, 8 January 2008.
As far as I know, this is the first list of this type to be nominated here, so here goes nothing! Since this is the first of its kind, hopefully we can set a solid precedence on which to model similar articles in the future. So, along those lines, if there is any formatting or content issues, let me know. I would also like to mention that I'm not completely satisfied with the formatting/placement of the in-line citations. Currently they're somewhat awkwardly placed in the Co-releases section, which I'm not completely satisfied with. So any suggestions you might have would be appreciated. Drewcifer (talk) 08:59, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support One comment however; MacKaye and Nelson set up Dischord to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles, and then, with the profits from that, then released records from other hardcore bands. May be worth noting. Also, in the last para of the lead, "continues" seems a little repetitive; try rephrasing it.
Overall it's well-written and formatted; you may want to place the refs in a separate column. I'll be using this as a model when I get around to working on SST Records discography. CloudNine (talk) 11:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Thanks for the support! I'll see about expanding the biographical stuff a little bit. As for ther references, I tried doing a separate column at first, but with the weird way the general souces work, I only needed to provide in-lines for releases #126½ and on. So in other words, a reference column would be completely blank for the first 126+ entries, which looked a little weird. But if you think that's a good solution I'll be happy to give it a shot Drewcifer (talk) 19:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Added some semi-historical stuff. Again, thanks for the support! Drewcifer (talk) 09:36, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the support! I'll see about expanding the biographical stuff a little bit. As for ther references, I tried doing a separate column at first, but with the weird way the general souces work, I only needed to provide in-lines for releases #126½ and on. So in other words, a reference column would be completely blank for the first 126+ entries, which looked a little weird. But if you think that's a good solution I'll be happy to give it a shot Drewcifer (talk) 19:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment It's arguably not the first, see Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/The KLF discography (which covered the entire - small - output of KLF Communications). Anyway: I've renamed this article to Dischord Records discography. Discography is the accepted term for a list of records, and this brings the article into line with the convention established by it's fellow occupants of Category:Discographies by record label. --kingboyk (talk) 17:50, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well I'm not sure if the convention is right in this case. Odds are one or two articles used the word discography and the rest followed suite: that doesn't mean it's right. That said, the fact that the word catalog/catalogue is regionally-specific makes me a little less resistant to the change. So, let's see what happens with the discussion topic on the category's talk page, if anything. Also, it's probably a bad idea to rename something nominated for something all willy nilly without discussing it first. Drewcifer (talk) 02:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Nope, it's never a bad idea to implement naming conventions nor is it bad to be bold :) That the article is under Featured content consideration doesn't place any duty on the rest of us to refrain from editing it or even moving it. I don't mean to come across as confrontational, just felt that the misunderstanding needed to be cleared up :)
- "Discography" is the accepted term not just here but in record collecting circles. In Record Collector magazine, for example, I'm quite sure they would use the term for any list of records, whether it be releases by an artist, a record label, or some other list. The article "discography" also says that the term can apply to a list of records by a label. "Catalog" is more of an industry term and, as you're now aware, it would be "catalogue" in some part of the world. In summary, convention both here and in the outside world would indicate to me that "discography" is correct.
- All that said, I think it's best to discuss the page name elsewhere and focus on the content here. Good luck with your nomination. --kingboyk (talk) 10:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for that, but I never said you were wrong in renmaing it, just that it might have been hasty/bad timing and that doing so based on precedence was iffy logic, that's all. Drewcifer (talk) 11:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well I'm not sure if the convention is right in this case. Odds are one or two articles used the word discography and the rest followed suite: that doesn't mean it's right. That said, the fact that the word catalog/catalogue is regionally-specific makes me a little less resistant to the change. So, let's see what happens with the discussion topic on the category's talk page, if anything. Also, it's probably a bad idea to rename something nominated for something all willy nilly without discussing it first. Drewcifer (talk) 02:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional WeakSupport As soon as I see an explanation for the "No." column and, most importantly, why there are so many half or quarter of points, I'll support.--Crzycheetah 20:58, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Almost all record labels have some sort of cataloging system, where each release is given an official catalog number, working in a loosely chronological fashion. These numbers usually aren't advertised greatly, but they're almost always there, Dischord Records releases being no exception. The system is usually at the discretion of the label, and Dischord Records being the somewhat unusual label that it is, I guess they chose to give some releases decimals/fractions. I don't know why, but that's just the way it is. Check any of the sources and you'll find the same thing. Drewcifer (talk) 23:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I was mostly interested why there were those fractions used. I am sure any other reader would ask that question, as well. But since this info is not available or unattainable, I give my weak support.--Crzycheetah 02:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Although I do feel that an explanation to why these use fractions, or even just stating the this is the type of numbering system used would help out a lot to a new or unfamiliar reader. Good job on the list though!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 07:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Update (diff) I added a bit of an explanation at the beginning of the list, so hopefully that helps clear up any confusion and any other reservations with the list. Drewcifer (talk) 01:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I am OK with that.--Crzycheetah 22:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 22:37, 7 January 2008.
Self-nominate. I recently rewrote the article deleting the old plot summaries, adding ratings and citing sources. This will be the first featured or good page for the Heroes WikiProject. Thanks, –thedemonhog talk • edits 19:33, 28 December 2007 (UTC) P.S. This rewrite reminded me of how much second season sucked![reply]
Oppose. I think it be good to add at least one image to the page to make the reader now a bit about how the show/episode looks like but for now i be opposing the page to be featured. Pathfinder2006 20:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Support. The reason basically written below by other users. Pathfinder2006 12:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Really? Anyway, I have added a cast photo. –thedemonhog talk • edits 21:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And it has been removed because Edokter thinks it violates WP:NFCC. I ask you to reconsider your vote. –thedemonhog talk • edits 21:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yea, fair use images are generally a touchy subject in lists unless completely neccessary. I would say a cast photo would not be fair use. The only type of image I could imagine being ok for a list like this is a DVD box set cover or something like that. Even a logo would probably get reverted. Drewcifer (talk) 02:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- A DVD cover would not be allowed because it identifies the DVD more than the episodes. Additionally, the only thing on the DVD cover is a logo. –thedemonhog talk • edits 03:09, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I especially like the addition of per episode viewership. Well done! I agree that an image would add to the page, but it certainly is not necessary - see the List of Desperate Housewives episodes FL. However, it seems to be common for DVD covers to be used in episode list FLs - List of Hitohira episodes, List of Naruto episodes (seasons 1-2), List of Devil May Cry episodes. So I think that the addition of one DVD cover in the lead would be acceptable. Cheers, Rai-me 03:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- We used to have DVD covers at List of Lost episodes and Lost DVD releases, but they have since been removed from both. –thedemonhog talk • edits 04:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I would think that DVD covers would be acceptable for both articles, given that so many FLs have them. Perhaps we should consult Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use. Cheers, Rai-me 04:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. On multiple occasions images like DVD covers in an LOE have been found to fail our fair use criteria on Wikipedia. Let it be. The list meets all the other criteria, and there's no reason to oppose this good work because there are no images. -- Wikipedical (talk) 18:42, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, though a better colour scheme wouldn't go amiss. (I created the old one, and it doesn't go well :/) Will (talk) 00:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- i.e. Not black? –thedemonhog talk • edits 00:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The green+black doesn't look right either on a LCD. Will (talk) 00:35, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What if I change the black to orange? –thedemonhog talk • edits 00:50, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not really the black that bothers me; it's the green. Will (talk) 00:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I changed it to red. –thedemonhog talk • edits 01:07, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I noticed. For future reference, you can set the colour in an entire row by using
|-style="color: foo"
. It's much cleaner. Will (talk) 01:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I noticed. For future reference, you can set the colour in an entire row by using
- I changed it to red. –thedemonhog talk • edits 01:07, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not really the black that bothers me; it's the green. Will (talk) 00:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What if I change the black to orange? –thedemonhog talk • edits 00:50, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The green+black doesn't look right either on a LCD. Will (talk) 00:35, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, the page has really improved over a short period of time, and the whole lead-in is fantastic! Щіκі RoςкЗ(talκ) 02:57, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks great, reads well, couldn't really be improved in any way. Just wondering why in the lead "Canadian" is linked but not "American"? Oh, and there's the redlink thing. •97198 talk 11:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- "Canadian" actually links to Global Television Network, the network it airs on up here. –thedemonhog talk • edits 18:38, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support The only thing I'd like to see added is the "list of seasons" section, as in List of Lost episodes. I realize there are 2 seasons only, but I'd like to see a link to the second season's section. I just noticed you have a note listed among references. I think it would be more consistent with other pages to list that note seperately using {{note label}} template.--Crzycheetah 01:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, some form of TOC linking to the seasons would be good. •97198 talk 01:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not sure how to use the note label template, so could you do it? Thanks, –thedemonhog talk • edits 02:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:53, 7 January 2008.
Self-nomination. Another tallest building list, modeled after FLs such as List of tallest buildings in Boston and List of tallest buildings in Detroit. I believe it to meet all FL criteria, in that it is comprehensive, stable, well-referenced, well-organized, useful, and complete. As always, any concerns brought up here will be addressed. Thanks, Rai-me 19:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, this list looks to be up to the same high standards as other "Tallest buildings" featured lists. VerruckteDan (talk) 23:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- comment The 'Notes' column should not be sortable as sorting on this column makes no sense. Hmains (talk) 01:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Done - Oops, thanks for catching that. It wasn't supposed to be sortable; I guess I just missed it. :) Cheers, Rai-me 01:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Another tremendous list of tallest buildings. --Crzycheetah 21:15, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks great, glad you included references and pictures. The only thing that could make it look better would to stub those red links. Otherwise great work. CameronCrazie56 (talk) 00:10, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 00:53, 7 January 2008.
I completely rewrote and reformatted the table on this page, adding some new information and making the list a little easier to read and more pleasing to the eye. I reluctantly based the rewrite after Chicago Bears seasons, a WP:FL. Although I believe this list meets all the criteria, any comments or suggestions are very welcome. Thanks.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 03:38, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments Why did you add NOEDITSECTION to the article? I think the sections should be edited. I'd like the table to be in a separate section and be edited separately, as well. Plus, in the total part in the table, why are the 1st and 3rd rows in italics, but not the 2nd?--Crzycheetah 00:08, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The NOEDITSECTION was in the Chicago Bears seasons, so I just brought it over. I have no clue why it is there so I got rid of it, the sections are now editable.
- I did not add a section heading to the table for a couple reasons. First, the only title that I could think of would be "Green Bay Packers seasons" or some variant of that which is repetitive to the first heading (the title is considered the first heading in an article). Secondly, I could understand if there was a lot of prose above and below the table, which would make it easier to just click on a heading when you want to just edit the table, but the only prose is a couple short paragraphs above the table, which doesn't make it that hard to find when editing. I inserted a couple hidden comments to clearly mark where the start of the tables are. If you have a different reason then ease of editing for having a section heading, please feel free to explain farther, I'm sure we can find a solution.
- I actually made it so that the section with the table is editable by using the template {{Editsection}}. I think this should work for what you were looking for.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 01:36, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I actually made it so that the section with the table is editable by using the template {{Editsection}}. I think this should work for what you were looking for.
- Again the formatting was like this in the Bears seasons, but I think it is to show that they are actively changing. Since it is the regular season, the regular season and total results will change each week. So I guess then when the Packers go into the playoffs that the regular season results will go back to regular font, while the playoff and total results will be italicized, and after the season is over, all the print will go back to regular until the 2008 season starts up. Thats just what I think though, there could be another reason.
- Hope this addresses your questions.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 00:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. I don't understand the purpose of the {{editsection}} template, so I reverted your addition. Whenever I clicked on the "edit" link, it opened the whole article so there was no purpose having it. Regarding the italics, I think there should be a note explaining why those numbers are in italics. Also, I'd like to know what you think about my last edit. I just added an extra empty row in order to make the line above the "totals" bold.--Crzycheetah 03:19, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah the editsection didnt do what i thought it would. I liked what you did and actually did it to the others so that the formatting is consistent. What do you think of it now?
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 03:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply] - Oh and I added a note about the italicization at the top of the table.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 03:32, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah the editsection didnt do what i thought it would. I liked what you did and actually did it to the others so that the formatting is consistent. What do you think of it now?
- Support Looks better now. Good job!--Crzycheetah 03:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks comparable to other FL NFL seasons, great work Gonzo! CameronCrazie56 (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks great, not only am I supporting this list for such great work but Gonzo helped me with my FL nomination. I know how much work you have to put into these types of pages and this list deserves to be recognized. HoosierState 23:10, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 23:45, 6 January 2008.
I feel this list fits all featured criteria. It has every symbol of Indiana listed and nearly every one of them is refereced with 18 in all. It is currently uncontroversial and stable. With the table format it is well-constructed. I generally based it on the symbol lists of Maryland and Kentucky, also featured lists. It has relevant images, categories, links, templates, and notes. This is a self-nom and I made nearly all of the list, but I do think it can pass as featured. Reywas92Talk 02:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment The info itself is good but you really need to get rid of all the white space in the tables. Format the column width to the same size used in List of Maryland state symbols. Also the lead section is very short and probably should be expanded to "summarize the scope of the list and prepares the reader for the higher level of detail in sections subsequent to the lead."
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 03:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- The column width was already the same; I made the images smaller to reduce some white space. Hopefully I can address the below and lengthen the lead (you're right; I really should have done that before) tomorrow. Reywas92Talk 03:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Good work.
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 04:58, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Good work.
- The column width was already the same; I made the images smaller to reduce some white space. Hopefully I can address the below and lengthen the lead (you're right; I really should have done that before) tomorrow. Reywas92Talk 03:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Your specific references are not formatted correctly. You're missing publishers info and retrieved dates on most of your references.--Crzycheetah 03:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Done References changed to Template:Cite web and the lead was expanded. Reywas92Talk 19:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Good list.--Crzycheetah 03:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Done References changed to Template:Cite web and the lead was expanded. Reywas92Talk 19:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Support Great list with pictures and references. HoosierState 20:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- comment Suggest a new column be added called 'Notes' and the reference notes be moved from the Year column to the new column. Why: the footnotes do not explain the year column, they explain the entire entry. Hmains (talk) 01:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That's an idea, but it clutters up the list with another column. If you think it would really be better, Year could be changed to Year/Ref. I think it is self-explanatory, though, as every listing has one. Reywas92Talk 02:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I agree that a notes/references column would be nice but looks great even without. CameronCrazie56 (talk) 00:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- That's an idea, but it clutters up the list with another column. If you think it would really be better, Year could be changed to Year/Ref. I think it is self-explanatory, though, as every listing has one. Reywas92Talk 02:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 06:15, 5 January 2008.
Hello: I recently nominated here at FLC, and the conclusion was that this list of works was more article than list and belonged at FAC. At FAC it was decided that although the list had a lot of prose, it was at its heart a list plus prose and belonged here at FLC. Please see the below pages for the complete discussion:
- peer review
- previous FLC
- Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#List articles as featured articles versus featured lists
- previous FAC
It has received several Supports over at FAC and has already had a peer review. I hope that FLC can expand upon their conception of a list and include this annotated bibliography amongst their featured content. BillDeanCarter (talk) 04:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support My what a history this list has. Reading the Article Milestones took me almost as long as reading the list itself. Wikipedia isn't sure what to make of it (delete it or praise it, and where?) This is an impressive list and a mine of information for anyone researching the author. I doubt if anyone on wiki other than the nominator knows if it is comprehensive but it appears to be thorough. It most certainly meets the criteria, being an example of "very best work". I have one request: move the external links to online editions out of the body text (per WP:EL and WP:NOT#LINK). The List of works by Joseph Priestley links to online versions within a specific External links section. An alternative may be some abbreviated form such as you have done in the Notes section. I know, in this case, they are a minority of the works, but I'm concerned we set a precedent and that an author whose works are mostly online might result in a list full of external links coming to FAC. Oh, and in the "External links" section, you have an interview by Monahan of someone else. What is that doing here? Colin°Talk 11:56, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. There was a discussion about linking directly to articles in a bibliography within another article I worked on for novelist Bruno Maddox and it was decided that there was nothing wrong with it. It makes it easier to access the online articles for reading and adds useful additional information, such as whether the article is actually available. I added the "External links" section late, because I wasn't sure where the interview should go. If it doesn't belong at all I will rapidly remove it, because I didn't think it was correct to include other interviews with Monahan himself. I don't know if conducting an interview is considered a work by an author.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 16:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Small point of information: The reason I linked the Priestley works in another section is because most of them are not links to first editions of the works and the list is a list of first editions, so the links would not have been to the same edition of the work. Awadewit | talk 18:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I would like to reiterate my support once more for this carefully-constructed, meticulously researched, and eminently helpful annotated bibliography. As I have repeatedly said, this is the best list of works that I have seen on Wikipedia and it should surely be featured. Awadewit | talk 18:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support for a beautiful piece of work. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Simply great. Good work. Rt. 20:07, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - This should have been featured almost a month ago. The amazing dedication to this work really shines considering the ordeal this was put through for the past month. -MBK004 20:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks all. A minor ordeal but usually there are plenty of good suggestions along the way that help to improve the article anyhow.-BillDeanCarter (talk) 20:44, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Per all the above praises. This list sets a new high standard!--Yannismarou (talk) 13:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 16:08, 2 January 2008.
I believe this list now meets the qualifications to be a featured list candidates. All of the issues brought up in its previous failed FLC have been corrected. The list is stable and well sourced, with through episode summaries (without being excessive) and full coverage of TV airings and the DVD releases in various regions. AnmaFinotera (talk) 08:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- the second sentence needs to be sourced (ANN is fine). Episode summaries need to be cleaned up. Characters need to be linked to their respective entry on the character list, and the last seven or so episodes are too long. Excise the extraneous plot details and summarize the episodes more throughly. For your references, use {{cite web}} for the ones that do not use it. As per below, the DVD lists are usually included at the relevant media list or at the main article, but I won't stake an oppose on it. Change the color as well to something more neutral; gray for instance. A DVD image (or collection if available) would be nice as well. All these are pretty manageable though. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 09:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed the source on the second sentence, fixed the two references that weren't using cite web, and fixed the color and headers. I've started working on the episode summaries and the wikification of characters.
- I'm curious about the thing on DVD lists though. I've seen it both way and I've been putting them on the episode pages for all anime and show articles I work on. That's my personal preference since the DVDs are collections the episodes and if someone is looking at the episode lists, to me, that would be where they would most expect to see purchasing options. It would seem odd to me to have a DVD image without a DVD list too. ;-) The anime/manga MOS is kinda ambiguous about it since it includes the list of episodes in the media section and the featured lists seem to deal with it three ways: the way I have it in TB, having the DVD info in the main article, or having it merged into the season table (where there is one). AnmaFinotera (talk) 17:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's vague enough to allow editor discretion in terms of where to put it. I don't find it is necessary, and believe it is more relevant to the media list rather than the episode list, which is per its namesake, concentrated on the episodes. Mention of the DVDs is fine for comprehensiveness purposes. Anyhow, all the sources still need to be put in a {{cite web}} format, including url, title, publisher, and accessdate at the minimum. Also, add the romanji in for the episode titles per previous precedent. This can help you if you have problems with that. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 00:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Woops, I thought I'd gotten all of the refs. I think I got the rest this time. :P I used the site to do the romanji...hopefully I got it right. :) Also finished shortening up the episode summaries and wikifying the character names. AnmaFinotera (talk) 02:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Superb work. I can happily support. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 02:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Woops, I thought I'd gotten all of the refs. I think I got the rest this time. :P I used the site to do the romanji...hopefully I got it right. :) Also finished shortening up the episode summaries and wikifying the character names. AnmaFinotera (talk) 02:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's vague enough to allow editor discretion in terms of where to put it. I don't find it is necessary, and believe it is more relevant to the media list rather than the episode list, which is per its namesake, concentrated on the episodes. Mention of the DVDs is fine for comprehensiveness purposes. Anyhow, all the sources still need to be put in a {{cite web}} format, including url, title, publisher, and accessdate at the minimum. Also, add the romanji in for the episode titles per previous precedent. This can help you if you have problems with that. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 00:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
CommentSupport: are there any references for the actual items in the list? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Added. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 23:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, the refs for the air dates are on the column headers, or do you mean the titles themselves? AnmaFinotera (talk) 23:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- He's referring to the titles themselves, which are better established by the official listing given by Kadokawa and Adult Swim. It's the reason every single other featured anime episode list has a set of "general" references. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 00:03, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I would never have thought the titles needed sourcing as we don't have to source the series title or film titles or television episode titles. However, I have put the sources on the column headers. The general references thing just looks ugly to me and doesn't really work to me as they only cover the episode titles not anything else in the article. Hopefully that will be good instead of having to do the general references? AnmaFinotera (talk) 00:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The point of doing the "general" section is to separate the references for the key content of the list, and because inline citations for them look ungainly, and are for specific points of information instead of twenty or so odd items. It's how certain lists have very few inline citations because they merely cite a "general" section. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 00:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I guess I can see that side. I'm just so anal that for me, the inline is more accurate. If it has to use general, though, in order to go up in assessment, I guess I'll have to get used to it :P AnmaFinotera (talk) 00:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That implies you're going to do more lists. Go, go, go =) Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 00:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh yes, working on two more episode lists and two character lists at the moment, with more in the queue :D AnmaFinotera (talk) 01:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hm - yeh. I wasn't recommending sourcing the titles so much as the summary of each ep. That's where most of the content is :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 01:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I was always under the impression that the plot details didn't need to be sourced, as citing the episode itself as a source would feel redundant. The general references provide very brief summaries of the episodes, and the list wouldn't be comprehensive if a full plot summary wasn't given. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 02:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay - that's a really good point :)
- Support, it seems all the problems brought up by other editors have been fixed. There were a few small grammatical problems in the article, but they were minor and I fixed them myself. Good job. Nikki311 23:25, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 15 days, 3 support, 0 oppose. Promote. Crzycheetah 20:25, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support as nominator. I am nominating this because it is a comprehensive list that adheres to WP:WIAFL. I have decided to stop at the top 25 because the first list that I looked at had a business school without a wikipedia page listed as the first school after the top 25 so I felt 25 was a good number to include notable schools.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Is this page actually necessary? There isn't a lot of information there, and List of business schools in the United States isn't an overly long page. I think it should be merged there. -- Scorpion0422 23:09, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment This should not be merged with the general list. It would be like merging a list of Oscar award winners with a list of actors or merging a list of Bowl Championship Series ranked schools with a list of Division I-A football programs. I will try to beef up the WP:LEAD.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I've struck my comments. It is better than it was before. -- Scorpion0422 22:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Identification of "Top" schools involves a subjective judgment. This is not a list with "well-defined entry criteria," as called for under item 1 in Wikipedia:Featured list criteria. --Orlady (talk) 23:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment These are not my top. These are the top schools by various education rankings experts or poll experts such as Harris Interactive. There is nothing subjective about my list.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I fully understand that these are not your top list, but that does not change the fact that these types of rankings are inherently subjective. Many subjective decisions can be hidden in a seemingly scientific ranking. (I've devised ranking schemes, and I know that I can "scientifically" arrive at a an absurd result if I design the ranking scheme to do so.) The large variance between a school's ranking on the different scales underlines the subjective nature of the choices made by the ranking organizations in devising their ranking systems -- if these systems were objective, it's very unlikely that one school would be ranked 12th in one system, 50th in another, and would not even be considered on two other lists. Schools can and do manipulate their rankings by working to improve metrics that are known to be tracked by the ranking organizations. For example, USNews gives a weight of 16.25% to incoming students' GMAT scores; a school could improve its ranking on that metric by encouraging its applicants to sit for that exam multiple times, then reporting each student's highest score. The article itself highlights the manipulative nature of the ranking process, saying: "Business school rankings are important to the various business schools because they are an important marketing tool used to recruit top students, and lure recruiters from the top companies. Business schools attempt to achieve higher rankings in order that they may obtain the top students who will over the course of their careers most likely benefit the school by achieving high ranking positions, attaining great influence, and accumulating great wealth."
Finally, your decision to list 25 schools (not 20, 30, 50, 98, 100, or 125) is inherently arbitrary.--Orlady (talk) 04:39, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I fully understand that these are not your top list, but that does not change the fact that these types of rankings are inherently subjective. Many subjective decisions can be hidden in a seemingly scientific ranking. (I've devised ranking schemes, and I know that I can "scientifically" arrive at a an absurd result if I design the ranking scheme to do so.) The large variance between a school's ranking on the different scales underlines the subjective nature of the choices made by the ranking organizations in devising their ranking systems -- if these systems were objective, it's very unlikely that one school would be ranked 12th in one system, 50th in another, and would not even be considered on two other lists. Schools can and do manipulate their rankings by working to improve metrics that are known to be tracked by the ranking organizations. For example, USNews gives a weight of 16.25% to incoming students' GMAT scores; a school could improve its ranking on that metric by encouraging its applicants to sit for that exam multiple times, then reporting each student's highest score. The article itself highlights the manipulative nature of the ranking process, saying: "Business school rankings are important to the various business schools because they are an important marketing tool used to recruit top students, and lure recruiters from the top companies. Business schools attempt to achieve higher rankings in order that they may obtain the top students who will over the course of their careers most likely benefit the school by achieving high ranking positions, attaining great influence, and accumulating great wealth."
- Comment I have revamped the text as per the comments above.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 02:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I think part of the issue here is with "top". Maybe a title like "List of [...] by rankings" would be better (and it would be closer to the usual convention for ordered lists)? Circeus (talk) 05:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That would not avoid the problem of the arbitrariness of selectively including only schools that appear in the top 25 on somebody's ranking list. There is no clearly defensible reason for including those schools and excluding the business schools at (for example) Washington University in St. Louis (ranked 27 on two lists and 29 on a third), University of Notre Dame (ranked 26 on one list, 39 on another, and 43 on a third list), University of Rochester (ranked 28 on one list and 36 on two lists), and Michigan State University (ranked 29 on two lists and 32 on a third). These are not "tallest buildings" or "longest bridges" (for which it is inevitable that an arbitrary cut-off must be made); rather, these are entities that compete with each other, and it would be possible to define and list the complete set to which they belong (for example, accredited U.S. business schools offering the MBA degree in a full-time on-campus program).--Orlady (talk) 05:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Any cutoff would arguably be arbitrary. One could just a well argue the cutoff of all features List of tallest buildings is arbitrary. At least the article clearly represent some sort of consensus between several prominent lists. Circeus (talk) 05:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment On my last list, Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders, I was told to choose a cutoff and be consistent across all lists. Now when I try to do it on this one I am getting run through the mill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 07:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The universe of Michigan football receivers is not infinite, but it might as well be -- new receivers are recruited annually and the bottom guys on the complete list presumably have career yardage statistics in the negative numbers. There would be no purpose in attempting to create a comprehensive list. In contrast, there is a discrete number of accredited US business schools offering MBAs, their numbers are relatively stable, and all of them make claims to quality. Comprehensive lists could be created.
You have not established "well-defined entry criteria" that clearly justify this particular list membership (and not some other list membership).--Orlady (talk) 14:35, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- O.K. Go here and tell me why no lists have been passed that fall under {{WikiProject Business & Economics}}. It seems to me that there is a clear need for more lists on this type of subject. This list could easily be passed. I suspect that people have been giving Business and Economics lists a little bit harder time than they should. Again there is really nothing wrong with this list other than should we have some sort of cutoff on who is included. When you get to the lower ranked schools you start getting into less notable schools as is evidenced by the fact that the first one below the top 25 on the U.S. News list does not even have its own article. The first opposition above seems related to the first sentence in this comment.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 17:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It is true that a disproportionate fraction of featured lists are lists on "trivia-like" topics such as sports, TV episodes, and music (especially discographies). My interpretation of this is that it's relatively easy to create beautifully formatted lists about pop culture topics, whereas it can be challenging to write excellent articles about serious topics.
- The lack of an article for University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business does not necessarily indicate that Wikipedians don't think it's notable. There is an article about a specific program at that B school, suggesting to me that the lack of an article about the whole school is just an oversight on the part of the school's fans.
The selective (and elitist) list of top-ranked business schools does not meet Wikipedia:Featured list criteria. It lacks "well-defined entry criteria" to form a reasonable basis for "including every member of a set"; indeed, the selection criteria could be deemed "controversial" (for example, by deans of schools that consistently rank around 26 to 30).- If you are committed to creating a list of US business schools that truly qualifies as a featured list, do consider merging this list with List of business schools in the United States. I'd look favorably upon a merged list that is fully sortable, lists all respectable business schools (for example, all accredited schools with an on-campus full-time MBA program) and includes details on degrees offered (e.g., BS, MBA, doctorate), accreditation, and rankings (particularly if it included some of the rankings that are not included in the current list). --Orlady (talk) 06:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd be against merging because when I went to business school (MBA Michigan 92) there were over 700 business schools. I imagine there might be close to 1000 business schools now. We only have 100 being listed as ranked. Merging them would degrade this list.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:28, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- O.K. Go here and tell me why no lists have been passed that fall under {{WikiProject Business & Economics}}. It seems to me that there is a clear need for more lists on this type of subject. This list could easily be passed. I suspect that people have been giving Business and Economics lists a little bit harder time than they should. Again there is really nothing wrong with this list other than should we have some sort of cutoff on who is included. When you get to the lower ranked schools you start getting into less notable schools as is evidenced by the fact that the first one below the top 25 on the U.S. News list does not even have its own article. The first opposition above seems related to the first sentence in this comment.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 17:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The universe of Michigan football receivers is not infinite, but it might as well be -- new receivers are recruited annually and the bottom guys on the complete list presumably have career yardage statistics in the negative numbers. There would be no purpose in attempting to create a comprehensive list. In contrast, there is a discrete number of accredited US business schools offering MBAs, their numbers are relatively stable, and all of them make claims to quality. Comprehensive lists could be created.
- Comment On my last list, Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders, I was told to choose a cutoff and be consistent across all lists. Now when I try to do it on this one I am getting run through the mill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 07:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Any cutoff would arguably be arbitrary. One could just a well argue the cutoff of all features List of tallest buildings is arbitrary. At least the article clearly represent some sort of consensus between several prominent lists. Circeus (talk) 05:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Would the name List of United States business schools by ranking by appropriate?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 21:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- No. That would not resolve the issues with this list. --Orlady (talk) 06:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Do consider adding information on how US schools ranked in the Economist Intelligence Unit list. (See http://mba.eiu.com/ for information; see http://which-mba.com/index.asp?layout=2007rankings for the list.) --Orlady (talk) 06:15, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- O.K. I have added all the Schools and EIU. I have to explain the last methodology and will do so momentarily.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 16:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That's a good addition. Additionally, the Wall St. Journal list has 3 sets of rankings: national recruiters (just 19 schools listed), international recruiters (24 schools listed, including 8 US schools that are also on the national list and one that is also on the regional list), and regional recruiters (51 schools listed). I think it would be worthwhile to add the international and regional rankings to the table, perhaps using alphanumeric "numbers" such as I4 and R13. --Orlady (talk) 16:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I will do it before the weekend. Above I explain why I am against a merger.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Ydone--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 17:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Seeing your determination to have this become a featured list, I've put some time into improving the article -- including editing the lead to describe what appear to be the new inclusion criteria (which I am OK with). The experience of working on the article leads me to identify several more improvements that will be needed before this can be considered a Wikipedia exemplar:
- The default order of the list should be changed to something that will allow users to look up a specific program. The current method of ordering the list by the US News & World Report rank is not acceptable, as it is difficult to use and it gives undue weight to that one information source. Users can re-sort the list according to any ranking they prefer. I suggest listing the schools alphabetically by the name of the parent university (or the name of the freestanding business school, if such exists). I suggest sorting by university name rather than school name because the university names are more stable (at least one of these schools is actively soliciting a large donor, for whom they will rename the school) and more recognizable.Y--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:30, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The article title may need to be revised. Y--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 06:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The article subheadings should be reconsidered; the context of the titles "Importance" and "Techniques" is not obvious. Longer titles, such as "Ranking techniques", would be more meaningful.Y--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 06:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The article should link to some of the other articles on institutional rankings. (I added it to a relevant category.)Y--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Within "Techniques," shouldn't the different methods be listed in the same order in which they appear in the table? Y--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 06:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have mixed feelings about the photos. They are nice eye candy, and some are impressive photos of the business schools, but many of them have little to do with the business school with which they are paired. (Instead, they are photos from the university campus or even the associated city.)
- No images are of cities to my knowledge. They are all of buildings, structures, or land that represent the B-school or university with few exceptions. For Michigan, Duke and USC I chose sports related images because these schools are so big on sports that even the business students find it important to them. As a Wolverine I am prouder to see a picture of the Big House than any building you could show me on campus. Furthermore, it represents the most lasting image of the university for me. Personally, I like images. If there is a policy against them we can take them out, but I think the article is better with them. I like images. If I can get your vote with them in I would like to keep them.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 07:09, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- --Orlady (talk) 04:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I will address your issues by the weekend. I will realphabetize by University. I am changing the title now.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 06:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Regarding the images, I was confused by your listing for the University of Iowa business school. The list said the school was in Des Moines, but the image was of a building identified as being in Iowa City (but it was not identified as being on the campus). It turns out that the school is actually on the university's main campus in Iowa City (not in Des Moines), so I corrected the list entry. Also, it turns out that the building is on the campus (where it used as a museum), so I edited the image description to include that information. --Orlady (talk) 15:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I will address your issues by the weekend. I will realphabetize by University. I am changing the title now.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 06:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That's a good addition. Additionally, the Wall St. Journal list has 3 sets of rankings: national recruiters (just 19 schools listed), international recruiters (24 schools listed, including 8 US schools that are also on the national list and one that is also on the regional list), and regional recruiters (51 schools listed). I think it would be worthwhile to add the international and regional rankings to the table, perhaps using alphanumeric "numbers" such as I4 and R13. --Orlady (talk) 16:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- COMMENT What is the difference between U and NA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 14:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- U means "unranked" (or "not ranked") in the given list. "NA" means that particular ranking list (i.e., rankings of schools that are primarily recruited by regional companies) does not apply to the given school because the school is ranked on a mutually exclusive and hierarchically superior list (i.e., rankings of schools that are visited heavily by recruiters for national companies). Actually, I don't think the WSJ "national" and "regional" lists should be displayed separately, as they are mutually exclusive. Rather, I think they should be displayed in the same column, but with an annotation on the regional rankings so the distinction is clear. --Orlady (talk) 15:45, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- On my talk page, you said that the Us and NAs cause the sorting to be messed up. I added them because the sorting is messed up without them. Specifically, without these notations, the blank entries end up on top of an ascending sort. (Clearly, sorting is going to be a challenge.) --Orlady (talk) 15:45, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorting will be messed up in either case, but with the letter the numbers don't even sort in order. Also, the lists are not mutually exclusive. See Harvard or Columbia to name a few. I think the columns should be separate for this reason. It will aid sortability. I would like to remove the U and NA because they are unexplained in the article and confusing. Furthermore, they worsen the sorting.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have removed the U and NA so that the sort is numeric and not alphabetical (I.E. so that 10-19 do not come between 1 and 2). —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 06:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I replaced the blank list entries with an invisible sortable field, so that the list will now sort properly. (That is, an ascending sort will begin with number 1, not with a long series of blanks.) --Orlady (talk) 18:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have removed the U and NA so that the sort is numeric and not alphabetical (I.E. so that 10-19 do not come between 1 and 2). —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 06:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorting will be messed up in either case, but with the letter the numbers don't even sort in order. Also, the lists are not mutually exclusive. See Harvard or Columbia to name a few. I think the columns should be separate for this reason. It will aid sortability. I would like to remove the U and NA because they are unexplained in the article and confusing. Furthermore, they worsen the sorting.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have not removed my "oppose" comment for this featured list nomination because I still have a general impression that this list is not quite ready -- perhaps it was nominated for featured status prematurely. Specifically, the introductory section is a bit rough still, the table may be too wide for many displays (this is something I've worked on), I find that I made a mistake in rendering the Economist rankings for just the U.S. schools (there should be only one #13, and all the subsequent rankings need to be incremented by one), and I don't know what to think about the new addition of "average" rankings. The article will get to featured status, but I don't think it's there yet... --Orlady (talk) 18:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If you don't like the table, now is the time to say so because we can come to a consensus to remove it. I am not so crazy about it either.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I guess that makes two of us who say "take it out." --Orlady (talk) 17:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- My main reason for taking it out is that there is little scientific validity in averaging these rankings. Another reason is that it gives the impression of advertising the top schools. Let the list stand by itself, IMO. --Orlady (talk) 19:09, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have fixed 14 and above.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If the text is rough can you clarify whether it is the lead, the first section, the section with the methodologies or all of the above.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If you don't like the table, now is the time to say so because we can come to a consensus to remove it. I am not so crazy about it either.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I suggest you remove the images and keep the list as a clean table. The images does not add any value to the list while increasing significantly its size: How is the picture of an eagle, or a close-up of a tower clock or a statue could add value to the list and provide more information for each school? CG (talk) 10:49, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That recommendation would also resolve my concern about the width of the list, and it would make it easier to browse the list because individual rows would take less space. Instead, the introductory section of the article could be nicely illustrated with photos of a few of the high-ranked business schools (captioned to mention their rankings), such as the photos of the Harvard, U of Chicago, Stanford, and MIT business schools. (Too bad that the Case Western Reserve b-school is so low-ranked; its photo is very interesting.) BTW, I removed my "oppose" statement, but have not yet moved over to "support." --Orlady (talk) 17:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have removed all images from the lists and placed the best pictures I could find for the #1's in the text.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:41, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yet another thing. I found that text is aligned right in the table which is odd. Could you fix it? As for the heigh of each row, it could be fixed if you increase the width of the first 3 columns, and replace the lists names with very short abbreviations (since there's a lot of wasted space for rankings) and explain these abbreviations just above the table. CG (talk) 18:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have removed all images from the lists and placed the best pictures I could find for the #1's in the text.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:41, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That recommendation would also resolve my concern about the width of the list, and it would make it easier to browse the list because individual rows would take less space. Instead, the introductory section of the article could be nicely illustrated with photos of a few of the high-ranked business schools (captioned to mention their rankings), such as the photos of the Harvard, U of Chicago, Stanford, and MIT business schools. (Too bad that the Case Western Reserve b-school is so low-ranked; its photo is very interesting.) BTW, I removed my "oppose" statement, but have not yet moved over to "support." --Orlady (talk) 17:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I found yet another set of rankings, from the Financial Times (linked from the Thunderbird article): Financial Times top 10 lists. That page does not describe methodology (it probably is on another page) and it does not provide overall rankings (schools are ranked by several different attributes), but it probably needs to be acknowledged in the article. (As I indicated, this article does not feel "fully formed" yet... This is just one more reason...) --Orlady (talk) 23:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- PS - That link may not work, but the search result link does work. --Orlady (talk) 23:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Financial Times poll and methodologies are now incorporated.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - This is a valuable page to anyone seeking information on b-schools in the US. It collects together information that is spread around Wikipedia in the various school articles, information which is often out of date or selectively disclosed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vantelimus (talk • contribs) 21:23, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Continue this discussion without me. I don't have time to think about this right now, and anyway I don't have a particular interest in the subject matter. --Orlady (talk) 19:08, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: With all the work you've done, the list looks very good. Love having the pictures, thanks for making it sortable, and it looks quite comprehensive. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:26, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Crzycheetah 20:25, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 20:15, 1 January 2008.
- 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: 16 days, 3 support, 1 oppose. Oppose was irrelevant. Promote. Crzycheetah 20:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This article lends itself well to a list format, and the list is fully sourced. I feel this list meets all the FL Criteria. There is some prose at the top, so I hope that doesn't disqualify this as a list. Nikki311 23:17, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Looks good enough. The Chronic 02:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- A couple of paragraphs is all you could come with for the history of an event that has been around for two decades and has lots of potential sources out there? And I have to admit that I don't think the table looks good with every single slot having a citation. Is it possible that you could at least move a few of them to general references at the bottom? -- Scorpion0422 22:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply, that's all the reliable and sourced information I could find. I did heavy research, including looking through several books (listed in the ref section). Most of the wrestling books don't really describe the match in great detail. How do you feel about moving all the citations to the notes section of the table? Nikki311 00:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What about the event? You could have famous matches/moments, more records (I know WWE.com has a rumble match records section) and even add comments about general reactions to past Rumble match and events. [www.slam.canoe.ca Slam] is a good source for reliable reviews, although they only go back to 1998 (and there isn't one for the 2003 Rumble). As for the table formatting, I think you should try to get as many citations out of the table as possible, and try using general references, if they are available. -- Scorpion0422 04:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Famous matches and moments is almost all speculative (and possibly original research). As for records: that leans towards trivial information in my view. The list is pretty well done now, let's not add speculation or trivia to ruin it. RobJ1981 (talk) 06:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- But this page isn't naturally a list. It should be an article but it has been instead turned into a list. That's like getting rid of a lot of the content on Troy McClure and making it a huge list of movies he's starred in. I don't like seeing articles gutted just so they can be made into lists, so I'd like to see more content on the page before I can support. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scorpion0422 (talk • contribs) 16:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The page was not gutted. You can see the article before I changed/sourced it here. I did condense the information and removed unsourcable details. The rest of the article was two lists that I merged together and trivia that I eliminated. The overall Rumble article is suited to be a list. What more do you need than a description of the match, the rewards for winning, and how the match changed over time? That is the history. The overall concept hasn't changed much. I agree with Rob, when you start adding commentary, records, and statistics is when you begin adding trivia and original research. Plus, reactions to the events and famous moments are better suited to the individual events' articles themselves. The Royal Rumble article is supposed to be an overview, how the match/pay-per-view is in general, with links to the individual events...that is why it is suited to be a list. Nikki311 03:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- In keeping with that, should something be mentioned about the fact that besides the rumble match, there are usually matches with World Titles on the line? It seems fairly important to mention that there ARE other matches besides the Rumble itself, as the article is about the Pay-Per-View and not just the match. Ad@maniac 23:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Ad@maniac
- I agree with Adamaniac's comment. I'm going to be very busy for the next couple of days, so I probably won't get to it until Sunday (maybe before), but I will add that info into the article. Nikki311 03:22, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- In keeping with that, should something be mentioned about the fact that besides the rumble match, there are usually matches with World Titles on the line? It seems fairly important to mention that there ARE other matches besides the Rumble itself, as the article is about the Pay-Per-View and not just the match. Ad@maniac 23:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Ad@maniac
- The page was not gutted. You can see the article before I changed/sourced it here. I did condense the information and removed unsourcable details. The rest of the article was two lists that I merged together and trivia that I eliminated. The overall Rumble article is suited to be a list. What more do you need than a description of the match, the rewards for winning, and how the match changed over time? That is the history. The overall concept hasn't changed much. I agree with Rob, when you start adding commentary, records, and statistics is when you begin adding trivia and original research. Plus, reactions to the events and famous moments are better suited to the individual events' articles themselves. The Royal Rumble article is supposed to be an overview, how the match/pay-per-view is in general, with links to the individual events...that is why it is suited to be a list. Nikki311 03:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- But this page isn't naturally a list. It should be an article but it has been instead turned into a list. That's like getting rid of a lot of the content on Troy McClure and making it a huge list of movies he's starred in. I don't like seeing articles gutted just so they can be made into lists, so I'd like to see more content on the page before I can support. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scorpion0422 (talk • contribs) 16:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply, that's all the reliable and sourced information I could find. I did heavy research, including looking through several books (listed in the ref section). Most of the wrestling books don't really describe the match in great detail. How do you feel about moving all the citations to the notes section of the table? Nikki311 00:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment, I finally got a chance to make some changes. I added some information to make it clear that the event it a pay-per-view that includes the Rumble match along with other matches, including ones where championships are on the line. I also removed most of the citations from the table and added two general references to the reference section (the first two cite all the dates, locations, and winners). I left a few citations in the table to cite the notes that the general references do not cover. Lastly, I added a little more info on the brand extension. Nikki311 01:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The table looks much better now without all of the individual citations, but I still would like to see the actual article lengthened. Could anything else about the actual event be added? -- Scorpion0422 01:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support- The sections to me are well explained, and the table isn't cruft or hard to read, and Nikki has worked hard and done a good job on this article for the past few weeks. TrUcO9311 TaLk / SiGn 18:14, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Another comment, First of all, I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, but I've been sick for the past couple of days and did not feel up to doing anything Wikipedia-wise that required much thought. With that said, I've expanded the article part with a little more information and some examples. I'm hesitant to add much more than that, as it will begin to sound like trivia (as mentioned in the arguments above). The basics of the match (history, rules for winning, prize, and evolution over the years) and pay-per-view have been covered. Nikki311 06:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Like Scorpion0422 above, I'm not certain this is really a list. Perhaps it could be split into "Royal Rumble" and "List of Royal Rumble winners"? In either case, could you combine the date into one field (rather than two) and make the Date, Location, City, Venue, Winner, and Winner # all sortable columns? Those last two could probably be combined as well ("#13 Stone Cold", for instance), but that's not all that important. If you do combine them, though, take a look at {{sort}}, which will help make the column sortable in the right way. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:18, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply, Actually, the year in the first column isn't so much a date as a link to the respective Royal Rumble year's article. Therefore, it does lend itself to being a list as it "brings together a group of existing articles", "is a timeline of important events on a notable topic", and "contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items that naturally fit together to form a significant topic of study". The list is more about connected the individual events than about the winners themselves. The table looked like this when I nominated it, but someone changed it along the way. Which version do you prefer? Also, I was just about to log off when I noticed your post, so I'll look into sort-tables tomorrow. I've never done it before, and it might take some trial and error time. Nikki311 06:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Given your comments, it really should be "List of Royal Rumble winners" - that's the collection of information from existing articles. Then the "Royal Rumble" article should have the history and other information Scorpion0422 was talking about, which is not timeline related, is less well defined and complete, and which doesn't lend itself to listify. And I still think the dates should be merged, though having links to the individual years' article is nice. My reasoning is that wikilinked partial dates like February 22 (per WP:DATE) is frowned upon - if you have the whole date, it should be wikilinked for formatting purposes, not to lead to articles. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Scorpion was talking about adding information about records and reviews that are better suited for the individual years' articles. Also, as I said, the links complied to the MoS when I nominated the list, until someone changed them. I have changed the first column so it is more apparent that they are links to individual articles and the date column per the MoS. As for sort tables, I like the idea of sort tables when there is something to actually sort. I think having them for the sake of having them is a bad idea. With that said, I don't see any reason to sort the links to the other articles, as they are already in chronological order. I also don't see a need to sort the location, month/day, or venue, honestly. I do, however, think the winner and entry number might benefit from being sortable. I don't know if they can be sorted, though, as the two winners of the 1994 Rumble might throw off the formatting. I'll play with it some today and see if I can get it to work. In closing, the purpose of the table is not to just list the winners, it is to provide links to the individual articles. The list of winners, notes, entry number, date, and venue, is just part of the description. Having a separate article for the list of winners, when it could just be included in the generic Royal Rumble article (which, and I repeat, is just supposed to be a quick overview and links to the individual years), seems pointless to me. Nikki311 21:57, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Given your comments, it really should be "List of Royal Rumble winners" - that's the collection of information from existing articles. Then the "Royal Rumble" article should have the history and other information Scorpion0422 was talking about, which is not timeline related, is less well defined and complete, and which doesn't lend itself to listify. And I still think the dates should be merged, though having links to the individual years' article is nice. My reasoning is that wikilinked partial dates like February 22 (per WP:DATE) is frowned upon - if you have the whole date, it should be wikilinked for formatting purposes, not to lead to articles. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply, Actually, the year in the first column isn't so much a date as a link to the respective Royal Rumble year's article. Therefore, it does lend itself to being a list as it "brings together a group of existing articles", "is a timeline of important events on a notable topic", and "contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items that naturally fit together to form a significant topic of study". The list is more about connected the individual events than about the winners themselves. The table looked like this when I nominated it, but someone changed it along the way. Which version do you prefer? Also, I was just about to log off when I noticed your post, so I'll look into sort-tables tomorrow. I've never done it before, and it might take some trial and error time. Nikki311 06:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I guess I'm not being clear. Royal Rumble, if it were an actual article, could be expanded to be a real article - including information like history, fans, criticism, etc. List of winners of Royal Rumble, if it existed, would be a perfect place to link back to the articles about individual years. The way it is currently combines the two (list and article) in a way that is not useful, and (IMO) is not eligible to be a featured list.
- As for the dates, having the year separated from the month/day is against the Wikipedia Manual of Style. If you're going to have a date, MOS says you should have the full date and you should wikilink it so it will follow the user's preference for date presentation.
- Third, if you have *any* of the columns sorted, it makes sense to have the date sortable as well. That way if the sort order is changed, it can be changed back to date order. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- First, you are being clear. I know exactly what you meant. I just disagree with you. The arguments provided by myself and RobJ above is why I disagree with you. There isn't much more to say or add to the article, and saying much more would make the article sound jumbled and confusing. I've already added more than I wanted to the prose section. A criticism about a particular event should be in that particular event's article. In doing all my research for this, I never saw any criticisms about the event as a whole and making some up would be original research. The same goes for fans, with the exception of the note about the Rumble being one of the more popular PPVs, which I included in the article. All the history is already covered.
- I've fixed the dates.
- As I've never done sort tables before, I wasn't aware that you couldn't reset from the individual columns. I've added the sort feature to the year, wrestler, and entry number. I did run into one interesting issue, though. As some of the wrestlers are listed by their names (which they wrestle under) and some are listed by their ringnames, I wasn't sure if I should use the "last name first, first name" format because several wouldn't fall under that category. Therefore, I just sorted them by the first later of their first name or ringname. What are your thoughts on this? Nikki311 00:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Take a look at {{sort}} for that issue.
- Oppose as is - this is a list and an article on the same page, which fails FL#1f, FL#2. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 01:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply, I'm concerned about precedent. It seems Lost (season 1), Lost (season 2), Lost (season 3), Vanier Cup, etc. are all FL when they can probably be split up as history related articles and lists, as well. Nikki311 07:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Nice list.--Crzycheetah 20:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 19:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC).
Format based on various NFL team season articles that are ranked as Featured lists. Is complete, stable, factually accurate. Self-nomination. Resolute 02:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose The seasons spent in Atlanta have to be provided, as well. Also, even though no other season article has this, I'd like to see a section heading right after the lead, == Headline text ==. Name that section whatever you want, but I think it's necessary to separate the table from the lead.--Crzycheetah 21:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Added a section break before the chart. Personally, I disagree with the inclusion of the Atlanta Flames seasons, as that runs beyond the scope of the article. This one is specific to the Calgary Flames, not the Flames franchise as a whole. Within the hockey project, previous incarnations of teams are treated with separate articles, thus, for consistency, the Atlanta Flames seasons would be better served in their own article. Resolute 22:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I find it being rather odd that there are separate articles for the same franchise. The franchise is called "Calgary Flames", which used to be called "Atlanta Flames" before 1980. There was not any NHL franchise called "Flames". If you want to have seasons spent in Calgary only, I suggest changing the title of this list to reflect this fact.--Crzycheetah 23:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm really not sure how I could make it clearer, actually. The article is specifically called Calgary Flames seasons, and states in the opening paragraph that the scope extends from the date the franchise relocated to Calgary. Likewise, Atlanta Flames seasons spells out the seasons in Atlanta. The two combined would form the entire history of the Flames franchise. The decision to separate franchise histories by incarnation was made before I joined the project, but is one I completely agree with. If other editors feel this list requires the inclusion of the Atlanta years, I will certainly concede the point to consensus, but this separation is consistent throughout the entire hockey project.
- I find it being rather odd that there are separate articles for the same franchise. The franchise is called "Calgary Flames", which used to be called "Atlanta Flames" before 1980. There was not any NHL franchise called "Flames". If you want to have seasons spent in Calgary only, I suggest changing the title of this list to reflect this fact.--Crzycheetah 23:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I disagree with including the Atlanta Flames season, because while in the few NFL season lists that include moved team, all incarnations are treated at the master article (there are no Los Angeles Rams or Boston Patriots articles), Atlanta Flames ha a distinct article,and there is no need to merge these lists anymore than there would be to merge List of Digimon Adventure episodes and List of Digimon Adventure 02 episodes. Circeus (talk) 20:22, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- When someone changes his name, it does not mean that there should be two articles about that person, does it? Maybe one day we'll have a Lewis Alcindor article talking about pre-1971 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who knows?
Same here, this is one organization that changed its name in 1980. Why are there two articles about one organization? It is illogical and does not make sense.--Crzycheetah 03:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- The simple reason is size. The master Calgary Flames article is 53KB, and that is after I split of about 20KB of other info. WP:NOT#PAPER would also apply. The comparison to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is invalid, as he is still simply the same person. A franchise shift is a hell of a lot more than a name change. A name change is Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to Anaheim Ducks. In this case, while the Flames acknowledge their history in Atlanta, the organization treats its beginning as the relocation to Calgary. i.e.: It celebrated it's 25th season in Calgary in 2005-06, but it is completely irrelevant that this year is the franchise's 35th season of play. In fact, the History section of the Flames media guide mentions nothing at all about the Atlanta years. It would strike me that forcing a merger of the Atlanta history into the Calgary history would be nothing more than us imposing our own WP:POV. Ultimately, however, the Atlanta history would have to be minimized to fit in with the Calgary history. Allowing for separate but heavily linked article chains allows the previous history in Atlanta to have more depth, which is exactly what this project is about. And, finally, I would suggest that WP:IDONTLIKEIT plays a strong role in not allowing for separate article clusters for separate incarnations of franchises. Resolute 04:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Then, why is Los Angeles Rams not separate? It's an incarnations of franchise case, too. I hate it too when someone based on WP:IDONTLIKEIT allows Atlanta Flames to have a separate article. Anyway, WP:WIAFL simply states that a featured list contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items, in this case the list is not complete.--Crzycheetah 04:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Because the football wikiproject chose a different tactic on how they relate history of franchises. They split franchise histories off into separate articles. WP:HOCKEY chose a cleaner (IMO) split by incarnation of franchises. One method is not necessarily superior to the other. And, again, I would disagree that the list is not complete. It is complete within its scope: Seasons completed by the Flames in Calgary. To go back to your football examples, we have several FL's relating to NFL first round draft picks. The NFL draft is not one round, therefore those lists are not complete using your criteria. Perhaps you should press to have them delisted? Resolute 04:52, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The titles of those NFL draft lists state clearly that there are first-round picks listed only. And they list all first round picks, so the lists become complete. If there were a List of Atlanta Falcons draft picks listing first-round picks only, then your argument would be valid. i will change my opinion as soon as I am confident that there is no relation between Atlanta Flames and Calgary Flames OR if the title of this list mentions that it omits the seasons spent in Atlanta.--Crzycheetah 05:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Then I will simply have to accept your oppose vote because there is clearly no possible way to satisfy you. The title is perfectly clear. Calgary =/= Atlanta. The Atlanta Flames played from 1972-80. The Calgary Flames played from 1980-present. Seriously, what are you expecting? Calgary Flames seasons (excluding the years in Atlanta)? The title is very, very obviously focussed on the history in Calgary. This fact is reinforced in the lead paragraph of the article. Resolute 05:08, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You actually made a good suggestion: Seasons completed by the Flames in Calgary.--Crzycheetah 05:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Unecessarily wordy article title. The title is crystal clear as it stands. A failure to understand the difference between Atlanta Flames seasons and Calgary Flames seasons is not a valid or useful reason to change the title. Not to mention that it breaks a project wide naming convention for no good purpose. Resolute 05:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The current title is very misleading and implies that Atlanta Flames was a separate organization and does not have any relation to Calgary Flames. But, as I just read in the Flames official site, Atlanta Flames=Calgary Flames.--Crzycheetah 05:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It is only misleading to people who choose to be misled, and who choose not to read the lead of the article. There is nothing reasonable I can do to satisfy you. Resolute 15:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The current title is very misleading and implies that Atlanta Flames was a separate organization and does not have any relation to Calgary Flames. But, as I just read in the Flames official site, Atlanta Flames=Calgary Flames.--Crzycheetah 05:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Unecessarily wordy article title. The title is crystal clear as it stands. A failure to understand the difference between Atlanta Flames seasons and Calgary Flames seasons is not a valid or useful reason to change the title. Not to mention that it breaks a project wide naming convention for no good purpose. Resolute 05:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You actually made a good suggestion: Seasons completed by the Flames in Calgary.--Crzycheetah 05:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Then I will simply have to accept your oppose vote because there is clearly no possible way to satisfy you. The title is perfectly clear. Calgary =/= Atlanta. The Atlanta Flames played from 1972-80. The Calgary Flames played from 1980-present. Seriously, what are you expecting? Calgary Flames seasons (excluding the years in Atlanta)? The title is very, very obviously focussed on the history in Calgary. This fact is reinforced in the lead paragraph of the article. Resolute 05:08, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The titles of those NFL draft lists state clearly that there are first-round picks listed only. And they list all first round picks, so the lists become complete. If there were a List of Atlanta Falcons draft picks listing first-round picks only, then your argument would be valid. i will change my opinion as soon as I am confident that there is no relation between Atlanta Flames and Calgary Flames OR if the title of this list mentions that it omits the seasons spent in Atlanta.--Crzycheetah 05:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Because the football wikiproject chose a different tactic on how they relate history of franchises. They split franchise histories off into separate articles. WP:HOCKEY chose a cleaner (IMO) split by incarnation of franchises. One method is not necessarily superior to the other. And, again, I would disagree that the list is not complete. It is complete within its scope: Seasons completed by the Flames in Calgary. To go back to your football examples, we have several FL's relating to NFL first round draft picks. The NFL draft is not one round, therefore those lists are not complete using your criteria. Perhaps you should press to have them delisted? Resolute 04:52, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Then, why is Los Angeles Rams not separate? It's an incarnations of franchise case, too. I hate it too when someone based on WP:IDONTLIKEIT allows Atlanta Flames to have a separate article. Anyway, WP:WIAFL simply states that a featured list contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items, in this case the list is not complete.--Crzycheetah 04:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The simple reason is size. The master Calgary Flames article is 53KB, and that is after I split of about 20KB of other info. WP:NOT#PAPER would also apply. The comparison to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is invalid, as he is still simply the same person. A franchise shift is a hell of a lot more than a name change. A name change is Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to Anaheim Ducks. In this case, while the Flames acknowledge their history in Atlanta, the organization treats its beginning as the relocation to Calgary. i.e.: It celebrated it's 25th season in Calgary in 2005-06, but it is completely irrelevant that this year is the franchise's 35th season of play. In fact, the History section of the Flames media guide mentions nothing at all about the Atlanta years. It would strike me that forcing a merger of the Atlanta history into the Calgary history would be nothing more than us imposing our own WP:POV. Ultimately, however, the Atlanta history would have to be minimized to fit in with the Calgary history. Allowing for separate but heavily linked article chains allows the previous history in Atlanta to have more depth, which is exactly what this project is about. And, finally, I would suggest that WP:IDONTLIKEIT plays a strong role in not allowing for separate article clusters for separate incarnations of franchises. Resolute 04:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- When someone changes his name, it does not mean that there should be two articles about that person, does it? Maybe one day we'll have a Lewis Alcindor article talking about pre-1971 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who knows?
- Added a section break before the chart. Personally, I disagree with the inclusion of the Atlanta Flames seasons, as that runs beyond the scope of the article. This one is specific to the Calgary Flames, not the Flames franchise as a whole. Within the hockey project, previous incarnations of teams are treated with separate articles, thus, for consistency, the Atlanta Flames seasons would be better served in their own article. Resolute 22:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Can we please calm down? Based on the prevailing Wikipedia format, I must
oppose(changed to neutral) as the list is lacking information from the Atlanta years. This appears to be a decision the Ice Hockey Wikiproject has made, but unfortunately it runs counter to the prevailing Wikipedia format, as seen on all of the NFL, NBA, and MLB team articles. (there are, for examples, no articles for the Charlotte Hornets or Brooklyn Dodgers, nor would I expect any) That they have made this decision doesn't mean I have to agree with it when voting for FLC, and suggest they re-examine and justify it. Personally, I feel the NFL/NBA/MLB model is the best, as the Atlanta Flames are the Calgary Flames. (I say that because rarely the new team is not the old team - example: officially, the Baltimore Ravens are not the former Cleveland Browns). That an article for the Atlanta Flames exist does not mean the error should be perpetuated. - However, I will reverse my oppose if you can tell me that the NHL doesn't consider the two teams the same team for purposes of history and statistics, like the NFL and NBA and MLB do for their teams. That is to say, if you can show that the policies of the NFL itself are different, rather than a mere design choice by the Wikiproject, then I can forgive this - being not a huge NHL follower, I have no way of knowing on my own. Looking at the Flames official site on nhl.com, they do exclude the Atlanta years from the main list, so perhaps this is a widespread concept in the NHL?
- That said, the list is very nice and I would happily endorse it if it included Atlanta (or if the exclusion can be otherwise justified as above), both in the list and the text. For example, it can be confusing - is the playoff record 15-17 for Calgary, or the whole Flames franchise? Because Atlanta went to the playoffs too. Questions like that would be very easily avoided by simply adding the Atlanta years to the list. --Golbez (talk) 22:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The Flames franchise history does include the time in Atlanta, but, as you noticed, and as I mentioned above, the Calgary Flames date their history from the time the franchise relocated to Calgary. The Atlanta years are basically treated as a form of "pre-history". i.e., the media guide lists game logs from the Atlanta years, but does not list detailed player stats from the Atlanta years. Ultimately, I fail to see why the NFL/NBA/MLB model is superior. It is simply different. (and as an aside, an attempt to merge Montreal Expos into Washington Nationals was soundly defeated, so the split by team incarnation exists elsewhere as well.)
- Formally, the Flames franchise date is 1972, but again, as you noted, the current incarnation of relocated teams often trace their own histories back to the date of relocation, so it is a grey area. In this case, I continue to question why the current format is inferior. The article cluster documenting the Atlanta years, and the cluster documenting the Calgary years are significantly linked together, showing the links between the two incarnations of the franchise. They are also separate, partly for size reasons and depth of coverage, but also partly because the teams themselves often split their histories this way. Again, I do not see how one way of presenting the information could be determined to be superior to the other. Resolute 23:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The Expos are a unique matter, since (I believe) that is the only major North American franchise to move or change names since Wikipedia began (excepting the Charlotte, and then New Orleans/Oklahoma City, Hornets), and therefore had an existing article in the present tense. People are often hard-pressed to give that up. And the anti-mergers had some good arguments. But back to this subject: I will remove my oppose (but will remain neutral) if the intro is edited to make it extremely clear which stats are for Calgary only, and which stats include Atlanta. As an American sports fan, when I see, for example, an article saying "the Calgary Flames have a 15-17 playoff record", I assume that includes all previous iterations of the franchise as well - in this case, Atlanta. However, I think the only way to get a support is if the two articles were merged. I still prefer (I never said one method was objectively superior) the general NFL/NBA/MLB model. Personal preference. --Golbez (talk) 00:19, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And that is fair. The quality of the article will not be lessened without a gold star. It is more the quality of the format I was aiming to confirm, and getting bogged down on a technicality isn't going to change that either. I will clarify that section you list, however. None of the stats include Atlanta, the article is on the Calgary years only. Resolute 15:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I gotta admit, it makes the intro a bit awkward, but I remove my oppose. --Golbez (talk) 17:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And that is fair. The quality of the article will not be lessened without a gold star. It is more the quality of the format I was aiming to confirm, and getting bogged down on a technicality isn't going to change that either. I will clarify that section you list, however. None of the stats include Atlanta, the article is on the Calgary years only. Resolute 15:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The Expos are a unique matter, since (I believe) that is the only major North American franchise to move or change names since Wikipedia began (excepting the Charlotte, and then New Orleans/Oklahoma City, Hornets), and therefore had an existing article in the present tense. People are often hard-pressed to give that up. And the anti-mergers had some good arguments. But back to this subject: I will remove my oppose (but will remain neutral) if the intro is edited to make it extremely clear which stats are for Calgary only, and which stats include Atlanta. As an American sports fan, when I see, for example, an article saying "the Calgary Flames have a 15-17 playoff record", I assume that includes all previous iterations of the franchise as well - in this case, Atlanta. However, I think the only way to get a support is if the two articles were merged. I still prefer (I never said one method was objectively superior) the general NFL/NBA/MLB model. Personal preference. --Golbez (talk) 00:19, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, but... Why are the first two columns the same? And is there any possible way to make that last column shorter? Having so much text in there makes each row quite tall, which is inconvenient at best. Overall, though, quite a good job! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The first two columns document the league season page (i.e.: 2007-08 NHL season) and then the Flames' season article (2007-08 Calgary Flames season). As far as the last column goes, I'm open to suggestions, but there really isn't a better way to present up to four rounds of playoff results that I am aware of. Resolute 06:41, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The way it's currently written, there's no indication about which one is NHL and which is specifically the team. And having the text be the same for both columns is confusing.
- As for the result column, what about something like:
- The first two columns document the league season page (i.e.: 2007-08 NHL season) and then the Flames' season article (2007-08 Calgary Flames season). As far as the last column goes, I'm open to suggestions, but there really isn't a better way to present up to four rounds of playoff results that I am aware of. Resolute 06:41, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
1997-8 | Campbell | Smythe | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | next field | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
Here are the results |
- -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll play around with some formats in my sandbox for later. Will also discuss on WT:HOCKEY, how we might look at the NHL vs team season article links. They are all uniform now, so changing one would necessitate changing about 35-40 articles. Resolute 01:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support While the Atlanta and Calgary franchises are officialy the same team, as recorded in the NHL Record Book, they are at the same time two different franchises. The article makes it clear that this is about the years spent in Calgary, and there is a link to the Atlanta seasons. It helps reduce clutter, and if the various MLB/NBA/NFL articles don't conform to this system, perhaps it would be beneficial for members of sports projects to discuss a uniform system for all sports, though this is probably more of a pipe dream than anything. Kaiser matias (talk) 07:26, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support While I understand the concerns above, the title of the list is List of Calgary Flames season which is quite clear that it is the list of seasons in Calgary. If it was titled List of Flames seasons then I would have to object. -Djsasso (talk) 16:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The list was promoted 19:36, 1 January 2008 (UTC).
This is a group of topics which ideally lends itself to a list format. The notation used is clear and concise, all standard hands are included and all non-standard hands are excluded. I think it is an ideal topic for a featured list. Happy‑melon 10:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The top image is not really good. It's a PNG, it does in an image what can easily be done in text, the text for some reason isn't right-aligned... beyond that, at a glance the article looks good, but that image really is not helping. --Golbez (talk) 16:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you think of this one? Happy‑melon 17:00, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- See below. --Golbez (talk) 22:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you think of this one? Happy‑melon 17:00, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I would like suggest a new category for games. Games people play without a full deck or something like that.... -- carol 16:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Nice! I've struck down the extra real card images, as the text squeeze was horrible, and they were superfluous to the clean little hand examples, which I framed inside {{imageframe}}s. Circeus (talk) 17:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Awesome! Exactly what a featured list should be. Drewcifer (talk) 20:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- changed to
Oppose- Have to agree with the sentiments with the top image: questionable copyright status. Using the other card graphics seems like a simple solution though, so I'll happily re-support if this can be addressed. Drewcifer (talk) 10:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- See comments below. Happy‑melon 17:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Changed my vote back to Support. Not the ideal solution, as I think some face cards up there would've been nice, but it does take care of potential copyright issues. Great list! Drewcifer (talk) 23:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- See comments below. Happy‑melon 17:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- changed to
- Support As per above. Great use of images and mathematic formula. Hpfan9374 (talk) 23:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Magnificent. Well-written, good references and canny use of images. And a superb list idea to boot. Peanut4 (talk) 23:37, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - fabulous list. Informative, aesthetically pleasing, and comphrehensive. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 02:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - great list.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 01:58, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - ticks all the boxes for me, a fabulous list NapHit (talk) 18:08, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WeakStrong oppose That top image makes this list look bad, unprofessional. I even think that it's copyrighted. I mean the design of the cards is copyrighted, not the image itself. For istance, the king of heart should have this design, not the one that is currently on the top image. I'll support when I am sure that there is no copyright issues with the card designs. There is a reason why these cards were made.--Crzycheetah 01:38, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]- I am certain in my own mind that the design of standard modern playing cards, including the court cards, is ineligible for copyright. Note that the image is hosted on the commons, which do not accept copyrighted material. Happy‑melon 22:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I suggest you to use these card designs to rid of all copyright doubts. Plus, you are using these designs throughout the list, so for the sake of consistency use them for the main image, too.--Crzycheetah 23:44, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Since there wasn't any attempt to improve the top image, I am changing my oppose from weak to strong.--Crzycheetah 08:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- See comments below. Happy‑melon 17:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I am certain in my own mind that the design of standard modern playing cards, including the court cards, is ineligible for copyright. Note that the image is hosted on the commons, which do not accept copyrighted material. Happy‑melon 22:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak oppose - Crzycheetah's copyright issue tilted me from neutral to oppose, based solely on the top image. I still think such information can be handled either in a purely tabular format, or with an SVG. But, for what it's worth, what we have now is better than what we had when I initially commented. --Golbez (talk) 22:03, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- So what would the pair of you like to see?? If you really don't have any other criticisms, then this is easily corrected. Happy‑melon 22:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The free face cards you propose look cheesy and silly. The only copyrighted card is the ace of spades, which isn't used. the top image is of fine quality. Reywas92Talk 02:36, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yet these "cheesy" and "silly" cards are used throughout the article - are they only cheesy and silly when they're above the fold? --Golbez (talk) 05:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- No, they're cheesy and silly everywhere, but we don't have any other individual cards to replace them with. Happy‑melon 11:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yet these "cheesy" and "silly" cards are used throughout the article - are they only cheesy and silly when they're above the fold? --Golbez (talk) 05:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - excellent article, great to see this article in such good condition. Mattyness (talk) 23:16, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Very nice. One thing that can be improved is that the many images of the hands should be on the right. It is annoying to have a image on the left, then on the right, then left, then right... It could also use a few more references. It is only simple math, but more links prevent the original research. Very nice overall. Reywas92Talk 02:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason for having alternating alignment is to reduce the amount of whitespace and spread it out across the article. If all the sample hands were right aligned there would be vast swathes of whitespace at most resolutions on the left. Plus it is common to see images in articles alternating left and right - this one just has more images than most! This is one of the reasons I hate WP:V and WP:OR - the content of this list is entirely either common sense or common knowledge. Yes, it requires synthesis to get from the definition of a flush to the number of possible flushes... but everyone who does that synthesis, without exception will produce the same answer. It's been done thousands of times in the past, it's just that no one thought it was important enough to note down
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Plus remember that not everything has to be cited inline - references for the whole article are acceptable too, as we have in the reference section. Everything that is remarkable, like the "wheel" slang for five-high straight, is cited. Thanks for your support anyway. Happy‑melon 11:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason for having alternating alignment is to reduce the amount of whitespace and spread it out across the article. If all the sample hands were right aligned there would be vast swathes of whitespace at most resolutions on the left. Plus it is common to see images in articles alternating left and right - this one just has more images than most! This is one of the reasons I hate WP:V and WP:OR - the content of this list is entirely either common sense or common knowledge. Yes, it requires synthesis to get from the definition of a flush to the number of possible flushes... but everyone who does that synthesis, without exception will produce the same answer. It's been done thousands of times in the past, it's just that no one thought it was important enough to note down
- Support This list should be an example of what a featured list should be. Noobiemacnoss1 (talk) 00:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - looks nice, complies with FLC criteria and good prose aswell. :) Good job! Rt. 11:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I have now altered the Image:Poker-hands.png such that it no longer includes any court cards. This removes even the faintest question of copyright concern. I hope the people who have commented above find this an acceptable solution to what I still believe is a nonexistent problem. Happy‑melon 17:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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