Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Board of Regents of the University of Michigan

Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
Self-nomination. List is (I believe) complete, sourced, stable, uncontroversial, and presents the data in a more useful fashion than other presentations of the same data I have seen. -Sarcasmboy 02:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Too many redlinks. Tables hard to follow in some places. I am not sure that many of the redlinked names will ever have articles. Rmhermen 17:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you expand on where you find the tables hard to follow? I can't deny that there are a lot of redlinks, and that many of them are not notable enough to have their own article. But one of the Featured List criteria is (emphasis added): "3. contains a finite, complete and well-defined set of items that naturally fit together to form a significant topic of study, and where the members of the set are not sufficiently notable to have individual articles" so I wasn't under the impression that it would be an impediment. Would simply removing the wikilinks and turning the redlinks into regular text help at all, in your opinion? -Sarcasmboy 21:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Some of those redlinks will never be created, so it's best to delink them. Nishkid64 (talk) 23:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I will go through and delink the ones that obviously will never have their own article. I think there are still a number of redlinked people who are notable enough in the history of Michigan that they might end up with their own article at some point, so I will probably leave them linked. -Sarcasmboy 22:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment A few things that bear additional explanation:
 * How could two men hold all thirteen professorships of the Catholepistemiad?
 * Something should be said about the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the lead for the 1852-present table.
 * How do the regent elections work, e.g. what are the term lengths, are they all elected simultaneously?
 * Toohool 21:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I have added clarification that I hope addresses your first two points. Your third point was touched on in the Current Board section, I think, but is now also mentioned again in the expanded text I just added. -Sarcasmboy 22:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose
 * Agree the table format chosen is less than ideal (it's already troublesome in political articles, let's not spread it unnecessarily).
 * Far too many redlinks
 * "List of Members of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan (and its predecessors)" is a laughable headers. I can't believe "Members of the Board (and its predecessors)" couldn't do the trick. You could even get rid of the "(and its predecessors)". THe other headers can also support shortening.
 * Circeus 06:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)