Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Hennepin County Library branches/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 via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 17 August 2020 (UTC).

List of Hennepin County Library branches

 * Nominator(s): —Collint c 21:27, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

and I have been working on this list of library branches in Minnesota's largest library system for a few years. We both, but especially Paul, have journeyed all around the county to collect images of all 41 branches and have attempted to develop the most complete list in existence of the openings of the extant Hennepin County libraries. We are excited to work with any further comments and suggestions towards making this article a featured list, and appreciate all feedback. If promoted, we believe this would be the first List of library branches article to make FL status and hopefully serve as a useful template for future efforts to improve coverage of libraries worldwide. Thanks kindly! —Collint c 21:27, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Reywas92Talk 07:41, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Review by Reywas92
 * This is a very nice list, but it should be merged to Hennepin County Library. That is quite a short article and the lead content is duplicative, so a split is not at all warranted. I'm not sure this passes WP:LISTN since there don't appear to be sources that cover the topic of branches rather than the library generally. NYC is the only other list of branches but that's a different animal.
 * "the borders of" is extraneous
 * "across 24 cities and towns" -> "in..."
 * "located" is extraneous, readers know "in" is a locator adverb here
 * "Four of the branches" -> "Four branches"
 * Bloomington is missing wikilink
 * Only the second Minneapolis in the table is linked; link all or only the first
 * Notes column shouldn't be sortable
 * Southdale: "between" requires an "and"
 * North Regional's note is rather random: of course a public building would take a few years to go from proposal to construction completion
 * Rewrite "In late 1800s, opened in Fletcher–Loring Flour Mill"
 * and "Original 1889 was"


 * Thanks, ! Helpful feedback. I've addressed most of your comments.
 * I'm still mulling over the North Regional note (I agree, it should be updated). Updated the note, per Benidt reference.
 * Re: the merge, nice idea! I will discuss with . = paul2520 (talk) 17:21, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks again for your review back in February. We recently worked through some additional feedback from The Rambling Man (see below). All your comments have now been addressed. While the Hennepin County Library article is still short, we've added additional context and references in the new section.  and I found quite a few references via Newspapers.com mentioning the branches & branch expansion.
 * I just wanted to follow-up to get any additional feedback. = paul2520 (talk) 15:34, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Looks very nice. Reywas92Talk 18:03, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the support, . I'm trying to parse the next steps. Should your comments be rolled-up in a "Resolved comments" template like 's below? = paul2520 (talk) 16:46, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

I would also suggest a merger, as the main article has very little additional content (other than the lead it essentially consists of a less-detailed list of locations). The merged article would still really be a list, though, so I don't see why the FLC couldn't continue...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:45, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment

Comments by Dank
 * Yes, agreed that this is an attractive and useful list, and that the main article is so slight that it would be better to merge it with this, and that the merged article would be appropriate for WP:FLC. - Dank (push to talk) 21:54, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Query - there seems to be a consensus among all the editors who have commented so far that this article and the main one on the library should be merged, but in six weeks nothing's been done about this. Are there any plans to merge.....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi . and I have reason to believe the list is relevant still (see discussion here). I have some thoughts that I was about to write on Bobamnertiopsis' talk page, that I'll put here.
 * How about we rename Hennepin County Library to Hennepin County Library and move the middle paragraphs from List of Hennepin County Library branches to that page? We'd still have the complete, cited list with photographs and details, and the library page would then have more context to the branch system.
 * Sorry for the delay! Courtesy pings to and . = paul2520 (talk) 15:21, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Comments from TRM
Apologies I completely forgot about this one. My comments now:
 * Support my comments addressed, looking good. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!&#33;!&#33;) 07:50, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Further comments from
 * Four sentences for the lead is far too short. You could probably simply merge the History section into the lead and just trim it a bit.
 * Notes which are not complete sentences (eg "Renovated in 1988 and 2013.") should not have full stops.
 * Think that's it -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:03, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . How did I do?
 * I didn't trim too much from the merged lead... any specific suggestions, if you think it should be condensed further? = paul2520 💬 14:54, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me - now happy to support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:39, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

I've added my support which (naturally) is contingent on a suitable source/image review. I think you have sufficient support on the content/layout/etc so just those reviews to go before this can be considered for promotion. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!&#33;!&#33;) 07:50, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Source review - Pass

Doing now Aza24 (talk) 22:13, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Cmts:
 * The Bibliography looks good, I tweaked it around for consistency a little bit.
 * Wow I really have nothing, consistent use of "cite news" and "cite web", consistent links to publishers and works, all reliable sources. Easy pass - Aza24 (talk) 22:27, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Giants2008 ( Talk ) 22:08, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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