Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of California/archive1

List of Governors of California
In the process of answering a question, I came across this list, which appears to be complete and well sourced. Is it feature worthy? - Mgm|(talk) 12:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment - it is pretty good, but (i) the lead is rather short. For example, it would be worth briefly discussing details such as length of term, timing of elections and taking office, etc; (ii) there are no references (are the external links references?); (iii) the "races" table is incomplete in that it does not contain the numbers of votes for all races. Perhaps it should be reordered by place in the vote and headings added ("First", "Second", "Third", etc)?  The boxes could also be coloured by party (although hard for Earl Warren in 1946!) as in the first table; (iv) the first table is in chronological order, but the second is in in reverse chronological order - I would prefer the second to be in the same order as the first; (v) it is not clear what the notes in the second table ("x of y districts") means.  What happened to the other districts? These notes also make the first column wider than it needs to be - perhaps a "notes" column at the end, or a footnote?  (vi) Is there a template for the "List of Governors" of the other 49 states? (I know the category does this, but a template eliminates one click).  -- ALoan (Talk) 13:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Nice list. Did anybody know that Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California?  Fascinating stuff.  Anyway, I second the comments of ALoan above.  I assume the external links are the references.  If so, they should be listed under a reference section.  Also, a few pictures would be nice. --Sophitus 19:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, apparently it wasn't as good as I thought it was. I'll copy these comments to the talk page of the list. - Mgm|(talk) 10:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't take my comments the wrong way - it really is a good list, but it needs a bit of polishing. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No prob. I just thought this might have been a slam dunk case. Obviously, I was wrong. - Mgm|(talk) 08:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This nomination has now been up for 10 days, and no work has been done on this list since 18 December. Therefore I'm delisting it. It can always be renominated once the comments noted above have been dealt with, jguk 21:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)