Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Alexander McQueen collections/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 PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 25 May 2023 (UTC).

List of Alexander McQueen collections

 * Nominator(s): &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:19, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

The career of Britsh designer Alexander McQueen spanned from his graduation in 1992 to his death in 2010. During this time, he produced 36 own-label womenswear collections, each with its own name and distinct aesthetic. McQueen used fashion to explore themes of romanticism, sexuality, and death, drawing inspiration from everything he loved, including art, nature, history, film, and his own life. He introduced groundbreaking concepts like the bumster trouser and the armadillo shoe. At his best, he was a magnificent showman who kept audiences enthralled with unique ideas and blockbuster runway shows, every one of which has sufficient coverage to merit its own article someday. In the meantime, I present this summary of his works. Long live McQueen. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:19, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments from Z1720
Source review, spot checks not done. Version reviewed:
 * Suggest archiving all links.
 * Done


 * Ref 4: BBC News should be wikilinked.
 * Done


 * Ref 12: Not sure what is happening here, it seems to be a weird way to WP:CITEBUNDLE. Perhaps the individual citations can be placed next to the inspiration it is citing, or remove some of these?
 * Each one corresponds to one factor and is necessary to support that factor. I don't see anything in CITEBUNDLE prohibiting the way I've done it, and I prefer not to place them in the sentence as it creates visual clutter which is difficult for me to process as a person with ADHD.


 * "Fairer, Robert; Wilcox, Claire (2016)." Remove the page number.
 * Done (this appears to be a duplicate of your final comment?)


 * "Bowles, Hamish (2014)." Is this Hamish Bowles? If so, wikilink.
 * "Callahan, Maureen (2014)" Is this Maureen Callahan?
 * "Wilson, Andrew (2015)." Wikilink Simon & Schuster
 * Above 3 done


 * "Fairer, Robert; Wilcox, Claire (2016)." There's an unwanted page number in this ref.

Please ping when the above are addressed. Z1720 (talk) 03:11, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've fixed most and commented on one. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 16:04, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Support. Comments have been addressed. Not sure about ref 12, but I do not see anything on Wikipedia against this so I won't oppose based on this. Z1720 (talk) 17:50, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * "This article concerns itself with McQueen's own-label womenswear collections." - personally I don't like "meta" comments that say "this article is about such-and-such". I would remove this - the first sentence of the lead covers it IMO
 * Per MOS:SELFREF, they're not prohibited. In fact, it specifically says "Similarly, many list articles explicitly state their inclusion criteria in the lead section." I prefer to keep it in so no one questions why this doesn't cover his menswear or the Givenchy collections.


 * "romanticized survival through tragedy" - McQueen was British so UK spelling should be used i.e. romanticised
 * "human-animal hybridization" - same here
 * "centers the widows" - same here ("centres") also the word "on" is missing before "the"
 * The absence of "on" is intentional - I'm using "centre" as a verb, in the sense of "to put something in the center"


 * "Collaboration with Philip Treacy to memorialize" - US spelling again
 * "Final fully-realized collection" - and again :-)


 * That's it :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:33, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Brit Eng spellings fixed, and I responded to the other requests. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 16:41, 28 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:43, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Accessibility review (MOS:DTAB)

 * Tables need captions, which allow screen reader software to jump straight to named tables without having to read out all of the text before it each time. Visual captions can be added by putting + caption_text as the first line of the table code (you have just a |+ there now); if that caption would duplicate a nearby section header, you can make it screen-reader-only by putting + instead.
 * Tables need column scopes for all column header cells, which in combination with row scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. Column scopes can be added by adding !scope=col to each header cell, e.g.  becomes  . If the cell spans multiple columns with a colspan, then use !scope=colgroup instead.
 * Tables need row scopes on the "primary" column for each row, which in combination with column scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. Row scopes can be added by adding !scope=row to each primary cell, e.g.  becomes  . If the cell spans multiple rows with a rowspan, then use !scope=rowgroup instead. If you think the title of the collection is the "primary"/"defining" cell of each row, you can make that the header/scope cell instead, though consider moving it to the first column instead of the second if you do so.
 * Please see MOS:DTAB for example table code if this isn't clear. I don't return to these reviews until the nomination is ready to close, so ping me if you have any questions. -- Pres N  20:18, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * These changes are now implemented, as far as I can tell. It's my first time using this stuff so let me know if you see any issues. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:07, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Comments by RunningTiger123
I support this list for promotion contingent on the table formatting issues listed above. I would also like to see sortable columns for the collection, date, location, and possibly season columns, but this isn't strictly necessary. If you do add sorting, check the following items: See WP:SORT if you need help or ping me here. RunningTiger123 (talk) 03:38, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * In the collection column, The Birds, The Hunger, The Overlook, The Dance of the Twisted Bull, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Widows of Culloden, The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, The Horn of Plenty, and La Dame Bleue should each be sorted by their second word (for instance, sort by "Birds" instead of "The Birds").
 * In the show date column, make sure March 1993 sorts correctly (it may not be automatically recognized as a date).
 * In the show location column, The Ritz Hotel, La Conciergerie, Le Zénith Arena, and Le Centquatre should be sorted by their second word.
 * Hi, sorry for the delayed response. I've made the table sortable as suggested. To be honest, I don't particularly see the value in making the date column sortable as that is the default order, but I've done it. The rest should be functioning as requested. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:03, 14 May 2023 (UTC)


 * SC
 * Support. Just one minor niggle from me which won’t affect my support: the shoe famously worn: I’d drop the word entirely - we’re already highlighting one notable item of footwear worn by a notable individual, so it already stands out from the norm. That’s my lot. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 05:49, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks SchroCat! Tweaked to say "often worn by". I think leaving it at "worn by" accidentally implies it was created solely for her, so hopefully that's a good substitute. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:54, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Source review passed; promoting. -- Pres N  15:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


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