Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Description of the Western Isles of Scotland/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:Giants2008 10:01, 25 November 2013 (UTC).

Description of the Western Isles of Scotland

 * Nominator(s): Ben   Mac  Dui  17:49, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list. I recognise it is far from a run-of-the-mill 'in popular culture' contribution and the archaic style of some of the language may stretch some reviewers but after a peer review I think it is ready. I notice that I seem to be the only nominator of a successful FL in the category of Archaeology - this one might be our first purely 16th century list. Ben  Mac  Dui  17:49, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

NB I may be off-line from Wednesday morning until Friday - definitely back by Saturday 16th November. Ben  Mac  Dui  21:21, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Support. A very good article. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your support and comments. Ben   Mac  Dui  08:32, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Support – I had the pleasure of peer reviewing this article. My few, minor comments were addressed, and I said then and say again that this is a remarkable piece of work. It is a fine example of the value of Wikipedia: try finding anything else half as good on the web! I greatly enjoyed rereading it for this FLC. The lead is shorter than usual, but given the nature of the piece I think that's as it should be: no point in padding, and much of the info in the body of the text doesn't lend itself to précis-ing in the lead. The text is balanced, clear, well researched and referenced, in highly readable prose and clear tables, resourcefully laid out for readability and pleasingly illustrated. Meets all the FLC criteria, in my judgment. If I had been the author I think I might have put it up for FA rather than FL but I see the point. Either way, it deserves loud applause. – Tim riley (talk) 21:46, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks indeed. Ben   Mac  Dui  10:38, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Support – An impressive piece of work indeed, with much helpful descriptive detail. Well done! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:06, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your support and attention to the article. Ben   Mac  Dui  16:20, 10 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Drive-by comment: Avoid unwarranted capitalisation. "Modern Name" should probably be "Modern name", for instance. J Milburn (talk) 22:33, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I can't see anything very specific in MOS about this and it looks a little odd to me to have only one word out of 13 uncapitalised in most of the tables but I've completed this. I can't see any word other than "name" in "Modern Name" that needs changing. Ben   Mac  Dui  08:53, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I agree there doesn't seem to be anything specific; I just can't see any reason to diverge from the usual guidelines on page/section titles. J Milburn (talk) 18:45, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
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