Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings characters/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 Giants2008 00:30, 17 November 2012.

List of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings characters

 * Nominator(s): Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:46, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because as part of my on-going attempt to improve articles about the great Maya Angelou, I think this qualifies as a FL. If this passes, I believe that the articles would then be eligible for a Good Topic. Thanks for the consideration. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:46, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment It is not very large and may fail criterion 3 b. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 13:39, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose per criterion 3 b, too small, and much seems to be fan trivia, also. And, I don't its prose is up to FL quality either. TBrandley 23:06, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't see why the list cannot be merged into the plot summary in the main article, or there could be a subsection there detailing the main characters. Because each character in this list has only a short paragraph, they could easily be merged into a couple subsections, rather than one for each character. Reywas92 Talk 02:47, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I hesitate doing this or making any other major structural changes because the current version of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is very close to the version that passed as FA. I do believe that some of the information, such as the characterizations of the major characters, could be folded into the main article.  If I do that, I'll drop this FLC and request that the list be deleted. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:12, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * What's the status of this list? I'd like to know so that I can remove this nomination and stop wasting everyone's time! ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:20, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Comment Sorry to keep you waiting so long Christine. In my humble opinion, this isn't an ideal candidate for FLC. It's probably a good article in the making. I'm not overkeen on the extremely short character descriptions, I'm not keen on some of the referencing being directly to the book (i.e. Angelou herself as the primary source). I'd find it challenging to support it as a featured "list". Are there any examples of character lists like this which currently are featured lists? The only ones I can recall are video game character lists whose character descriptions are much longer than these... The Rambling Man (talk) 16:53, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'm inclined to, as I state above, fold the useful content into other articles and ask that this list be deleted.  I only brought it here because my goal is to have a FT, and one of the requirements is that all lists be featured.  If this isn't necessary and it gets in the way of that goal, why keep it?  Go ahead and close this nom then, please.  Thanks. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)


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