Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Dorset

Dorset
Mostly self-nom, and I've run out of changes to make (except the politics section which will change after the election in two weeks)! Buckinghamshire is an existing featured English county article, and I recon this one's reached that standard and more. Joe D (t) 21:20, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * (Well, Buckinghamshire is on WP:FARC and seems likely to be removed unless it improves sharpish...)


 * Object for now (I am having a bad hair day :) Dorset is quite nice, with some good images and references, but the lead is quite short: could you add some more flavour of the county (Jurassic coast, Chesil Beach, Portland, Isle of Purbeck; seaside resorts - Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth, etc; Dorchester; Thomas Hardy).  Also, does it need the list of places at the end? Many are already mentioned, and there is a separate main article list.  There are some nit-picky details like links (Maiden Castle is not linked in history, for example) - and are you sure it is pronounced Dorsit - but I won't go on. -- ALoan (Talk) 22:27, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I've added another paragraph to the introduction summarising some of the most notable points about the county, I'm not entirely sure which things are considered the most famous by non-residents though, so there might be other points to add to that.
 * I'm really not sure about the list of places at the end, it's a standard feature of English county articles so it was there before I arrived. I've moved the complete list to the sub-page and cut this list down to what I consider to be the most notable, and I've been considering turning it into a short piece of prose summarising notable places, similar to how the settlements section is summarised.  If people think that would work better than a list I'll get on to it.
 * Dor+sit or Dawh+sit looks like how most people pronounce it to me. It should probably be converted to a phonetic alphabet, but I don't think I'm up to that.  Joe D (t) 22:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - thanks, I think that is good enough. I've copyedited slightly.  My only small caveat is that list at the end, but other this is good stuff, how Buckinghamshire and all the other counties should be. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:22, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment - I have added more links to other Wikipedias with the aid of this excellent tool. I reckon that wherever appropriate - it really only works on proper names - that should be good practice for FACs (though not an actionable objection if it's not done). --194.73.130.132 13:52, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The only one missing is fr:Dorset, which I will add. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:22, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I took out fr:Dorset - it's only a disambiguation page, and is correctly linked from Dorset (disambiguation). The French Wikipedia has no page on the county itself. The global search tool is smart (notice how it marks :fr as a disambiguation page), but not infallible. 194.73.130.132 16:18, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Support – good article but it would be better if you start with the ==History== or =Geography== sections first, to give the reader an idea of the place rather than its population statistics. == 17:49, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 'tis done. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:34, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Support but agree with ALoan comments. --Briangotts 20:28, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comment: I've removed the places of interest section in favour of a link to the full list in the see also section. If some of them are considered notable enough it might be possible to mention them somewhere in the main article. Joe D (t) 20:55, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Support, this is a good article. Rje 01:48, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. The politics section could do with a full list of parliamentary constituencies (and possibly a fuller discussion on its own page), but I dont think this counts against the nomination Andreww 06:56, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC).