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

The list was promoted by Scorpion0422 18:03, 22 October 2008 (UTC).[reply]

List of universities in Canada

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This is certainly one of the longer lists that I've worked on. The provinces with more than 10 universities have separate lists that more fully explain their universities, so they are instead very simply summarized in this list. Gary King (talk) 06:02, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "In Canada the constitutional responsibility for universities rests with the provinces and territories." Comma after Canada.
  • "...it states 'in and for each Province, the Legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to Education.'" I think there should be a colon after states.
  • "Universities in the country grant university degrees including bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees." Comma after "university degrees".
  • "14 universities are located in British Columbia." MOS breach in starting a sentence with a numeral as well as generally awkward phrasing. Fix this in other sections also.
  • "Newfoundland and Labrador has only one university."
  • "Dalhousie University, first known as Dalhousie College, was established in Halifax in 1820 with the help of the Presbyterian Church, while, Acadia University was founded by Baptists." No comma after while.

More comments later. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:16, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All done Gary King (talk) 02:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redundancies: "located in", I see this all over the article.
  • "University student enrollment in Alberta ranges from King's University College with 560 students to 35,490 students at the University of Alberta" Needs a period at the end.
  • "The University of Saskatchewan is the oldest school in the province, founded in 1907, while the First Nations University of Canada is the newest, established in 1976." Comma after 1907 needs to be a semicolon.
  • "The First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina are both located in Regina, the province's capital, while the University of Saskatchewan is found in Saskatoon, the most populated city in Saskatchewan." "while"-->and, it is merely addititional information.

Dabomb87 (talk) 02:39, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All done. I don't agree with the semicolon. Gary King (talk) 02:50, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't agree with the semicolon either, but that's what you've done on another sentence, so I was trying to encourage consistency. I wasn't sure what was grammatically correct, either. Here it is: "The oldest university in the province is the University of Alberta, established in 1906; while King's University College is the most recently established university, formed in 1979."
Ah okay; must've been one of the edits that slipped past me. I've changed it back to a comma. Gary King (talk) 03:45, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Use tables for all provinces, even for the ones that have their own well developed lists. This would make the article look consistent, and the information and sources would also be easier to locate. Good potential. --Qyd (talk) 18:06, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Hm, well, I want to encourage people to go to the other lists to learn more about those provinces rather than just staying in this one, which is why I've only got them here with bullets. Gary King (talk) 18:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's nice, but it doesn't help with bringing this list up to featured standard. --Qyd (talk) 19:14, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All done Gary King (talk) 19:31, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support FL. Looks clean, well referenced, well structured, informative. --Qyd (talk) 00:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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