Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Harry Potter influences and analogues/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 not promoted by The Rambling Man 18:27, 26 December 2009.

Harry Potter influences and analogues

 * Nominator(s):  Serendi pod ous  23:57, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because it was initially a good article, but got delisted on the grounds that it was, well, a list.  Serendi pod ous  23:57, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Comment I'm not quite sure whether this is an article or a list, and have posted at WT:GAN in the hopes of getting more opinions. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)


 * In any case, there are two dead links (check the toolbox). Dabomb87 (talk) 17:55, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Links subbed. Really annoying because I only went through this a month ago and they were already dead again.  Serendi pod ous  21:40, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Comment I'm not sure this constitutes a list either. It's certainly unlike most other lists we see around here with far, far more prose and much less list-ness (e.g. sortability, linking to a collection of similar articles etc). On a different but similar note, presumably this article could not claim to be complete either, as HP must have had many, many influences, not least Rowling's life... The Rambling Man (talk) 15:46, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose. Personally I think the GA closer was wrong to demote on the basis that this isn't a list, but I'll give some brief feedback anyway. Although the overall prose quality is excellent, per criterion 2 the lead does not introduce the subject in an engaging way. Also I have generally understood that an FL lead shouldn't reference the list's structure. Criteria 3a; the scope for inclusion isn't clear. Influences directly referred to as such by Rowling are fair enough, but the anologues section could in theory go on indefinitely, and while it is a good read I don't understand how the other favourites section is relevant. Finally, while the images in the article/list are good, ideally there should be one that is in some way related to Harry Potter, or if that's difficult for copyright reasons, perhaps one of Rowling/Radcliffe? WFCforLife (talk) 03:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
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