Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of universities in British Columbia/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by User:Matthewedwards 20:11, 11 October 2008 [1].

List of universities in British Columbia

This is fairly different from my typical lists. I think it meets the FL criteria now. The map was created by Matthewedwards! Thanks! Gary King (talk) 01:37, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a particularily long list, and there aren't too many Universities in Canada. Any reasy why this can't be merged with a List of universities in Canada? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think some people are insistent on having a separate article for the universities of each province. Of course, some provinces have less than ten universities, so those can be merged with a good reason. This particular one, however, contains fourteen items, so I think it is supposed to be a separate page. Gary King (talk) 02:19, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think a list merged with List of institutes and colleges in British Columbia would be valuable. In the lead could you explain what makes a school a "University"? Like, why Vancouver University Worldwide is not included. --maclean 07:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Here you go. Gary King (talk) 15:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - sources look good, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think you should just put the location of the main campus instead of all the campuses in British Columbia. -- K. Annoyomous 24_[c] 02:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it's useful to have all of the campuses listed. The main campus is the first location mentioned in each cell. Gary King (talk) 04:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 16:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Consider expanding the lead image - WP:MOS#Images (last time I looked) advocated up to 300px.
Anyway of tightening the caption - I'm sure that image doesn't encapsulate the whole of the Uni of BC?
"in the province of British Columbia, Canada. " - it's personal but why not "in the Canadian province of BC"?
I'd link degree.
And what's "post-secondary" here? Think "non-expert".
ministry of advanced ed and the labour market development could be linked?
"also grant consent to private institutions to grant degrees" - grant x 2

" the most populated region " - regions?

Should "graduate level" be hyphenated?
School seems synonymous with University. This may be true in US/Canada but definitely not in the UK. Consider rephrasing or explaining. Or renaming the list.
If an institution has multiple "locations", would they be considered campuses? Is it worth discussing this in the lead too, that a single entity can be spread over multiple locations?
Consider right-aligned the numerical columns on this occasion as centrally, it's hard to gauge the differences from one row to another...
Ref 3 should be explicitly defined as a pdf.

The Rambling Man (talk) 16:56, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All done. Graduate level can be hyphenated or not; I prefer not. Locations are not always campuses; sometimes they are just a single floor of a building or something. I applied these to the other university lists, too. Gary King (talk) 18:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - all concerns addressed, thanks Gary. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak~~ Support

University of British Columbia, I think, should be sorted out as B, not U. Also with all of other universities starting with a "University". -- K. Annoyomous 24_[c] 23:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done for these. The French list seems to prefer including "University" when sorting so that's why that one differs. Gary King (talk) 00:04, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One more comment

There are 2 locations of the University of British Columbia, the main campus, and the location at Robson Square. -- K. Annoyomous 24_[c] 22:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's still Vancouver. The list lists the cities of the campuses, and if multiple campuses are in the same city, then it still only lists the city. Gary King (talk) 00:02, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't you just put Vancouver (2) to indicate that there are two campuses in the city? -- K. Annoyomous 24_[c] 01:24, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wary of doing that because sometimes universities have several "campuses" in the same city that are really close to each other, so officially there is no distinction between the two campuses. That's why universities typically only announce that they have other campuses when they are in completely different cities. Gary King (talk) 01:39, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak~~ support - A few problems need to be banged out - but nothing major. iMatthew (talk) 23:08, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
My "problem" was that I though that the key would be organized better, but I can't think of a better solution. iMatthew (talk) 01:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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