Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Timeline of Australian television/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal 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 removed by Dabomb87 15:36, 18 August 2012 [1].

Timeline of Australian television[edit]

Featured list removal candidates/Timeline of Australian television/archive1

Notified: WikiProject Australian television

I am nominating this for featured list removal because from the emboldened timeline of.. onwards this is not Featured quality. The lead is minimal and sparsely referenced, while many points of the timeline itself are unreferenced, particularly those from the last few years. This might have been worthy of the Featured tag in 2007, but four and a half years on, it certainly not. Unfortunately I don't think there is really any chance of this being saved in a reasonable amount of time. Harrias ^talk 13:48, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that correcting the referencing holes that have crept in since 2007 is a major issue - television after all is a medium that loves to talk about itself and I've found references fairly easy to find. The lead certainly is sparse, though that too could be fixed. I can see two other types of issues though: there are textual errors that have crept in eg: "SBS TV partners up with the Seven Network for joint coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games." rather than "SBS TV and the Seven Network jointly cover the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games." and I think the text needs a thorough going over; There are things that to my eyes are missing from the list eg: creation of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations; the fact that in 1960 all capitals were now had commercial Television (which was part of the original legislative plan); 1963 when the first speech by political party leader was made (R Menzies) on Australian Television; formation of the National Television Network in the same year; the significant legislative and TV station ownership events over time (there is only one mention of the surname "Packer" which seems odd); the introduction of teletext in 1980; and others. There is also some trivial additions—do we need to know the time that Channel Nine dropped the word national from their news program's title ? - Peripitus (Talk) 09:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Initial comment seems like there's a bunch of issues with WP:MOS (like WP:DASH and the WP:LEAD) and also bad links so those should be addressed initially otherwise this is a clear delist. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And tags on the list! TBrandley • talk • contributions 00:22, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll remove the three non-free images with unconvincing fair-use rationales for this timeline - they're purely used as decoration. Bencherlite ^Talk 07:56, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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