Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of 2000s Christian Songs number ones/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 Giants2008 17:08, 23 October 2012.

List of 2000s Christian Songs number ones

 * Nominator(s):  Toa   Nidhiki05  21:51, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel it meets the criteria for Featured List. For background, the article covers the number-one singles on the Billboard Christian Songs chart from the 2000s. The chart was started in mid-2003 and covers airplay data from all formats of contemporary Christian music, although the dominant format of Christian radio is Christian adult contemporary. The opening paragraph of the lede explains basic chart details such as the launching of the chart, which publication runs the chart, which form of data is used to compile the chart, and which radio formats the chart includes. The second paragraph takes the centerpiece of the list, a large table containing each number-one single and vital information, and summarizes it to note the most important pieces of information. Structurally, the main table is based on that of the List of 2000s UK Singles Chart number ones, also a featured list. The table has four sortable columns with vital information as well as a fifth unsortable column that links to a reference to support the information in each the other four columns. Each citation in the table is taken directly from Billboard magazine. Two smaller tables are at the bottom of the article - the artists with the most number-one singles and the songs with the longest runs atop the chart. Both tables are supported by citations from Billboard. Due to these factors, I feel the list is extremely informative and excellent and it meets the required criteria.  Toa   Nidhiki05  21:51, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Support I have no comments on how to improve the article. The article is well sourced and images are relevant. I believe that it meets FLC for usefulness, completeness (has every number one from inception until the end of the decade), accuracy, neutrality, style and prose.  Royal broil  03:54, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Quick comment surely all records that top this Billboard chart are notable and, as such, should be linked? The Rambling Man (talk) 10:21, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point - I have linked to all the songs. Although some pages do not exist yet they could reasonably be created and thus are redlinked.  Toa   Nidhiki05  13:28, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I've corrected all of them except for the artists bit - how would that be fixed?  Toa   Nidhiki05  01:17, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Use the sortname template. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:44, 19 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Support TBrandley 16:44, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comments from Crisco 1492
 * "atop the chart" repeated twice in the same sentence.
 * Images could use alt text. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed all issues.  Toa   Nidhiki05  16:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Support on prose — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:09, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Comments I've gone over and this list and made some changes here; please revert if I've made things worse. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 23:58, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there any article that could be linked to to give more info on what "audience impressions" means? For someone outside of the US, this might be confusing. Does it refer to radio plays, or something else entirely?
 * Consider moving the image of MercyMe up to the top so that the article has a lead image. This would also mean that the edit link for the Statistics would not be displaced.
 * Since this is a list of songs, I feel that the row scopes should be really on the songs themselves rather than the artists. Alternatively, if that doesn't appeal to you, you could always add a No. column that lists the procession and succession of the chart (as in this list), and then make the rows in that column the scope.
 * The Weeks column would be better centre-aligned.
 * Of the songs linked to in the list, more than a fifth of them are red. Per 5(a) of the featured list criteria, I think it would be better if they linked to something, even just stubs.
 * Which artist(s) spent the most weeks at number one during the decade?
 * No, there is no an article on the subject (which is surprising), but one could be made. According to Billboard:


 * So basically, it just multiplies the spins by the estimated audience that the station has at the time of the spin. I'll specify that here in some way.
 * Ah, it's a shame that there's no specific article yet. If you can find a way to expand upon what "audience impressions" means then that'd be good, but I wouldn't devote to much time to it, since obviously it's really outside the scope of this list. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 23:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll make a stub for it at some point if only to give it a place to link to; I've elaborated a bit.  Toa   Nidhiki05  02:39, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Moved.
 * As for 3-5, I'll fix those in a bit. I have to go somewhere but I'll fix as soon as possible. I've been wanting to make articles on each number one song, but I was worried making 9 stubs would be frowned upon. However, since that is not the case I will try and make them.
 * Casting Crowns did; their six number-one singles spent a total of 62 weeks atop the chart. The information is already in the lede, but I can make a new table for it.  Toa   Nidhiki05  15:39, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry, don't know how I missed that... A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 23:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * As an update, I have added a numeral table as that is the easier of the two solutions; I am going to work on center-aligning the weeks column shortly.  Toa   Nidhiki05  00:30, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I have centered the weeks column.  Toa   Nidhiki05  22:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks considerably better, nice work! Great to see all the redlinks gone too. I've made a couple of changes here – I've altered the No. column so that the re-entries don't all jump about when it's sorted, plus a couple of other stylistic choices that may just be personal preference. Please do revert if you don't like the changes. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 23:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The list looks nice but you could add another column in the artist table with total # of weeks spent at #1 19:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This is what I would recommend doing as well. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 23:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've added the table; I'll get the citations up in a bit.  Toa   Nidhiki05  02:39, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


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