Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (A)/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 NapHit 21:40, 1 October 2012.

List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (A)

 * Nominator(s): MisterBee1966 (talk) 13:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it may meet the criteria. It follows the layout and reference style used in the lists of Oak Leaves recipents (1940 to 1945). Thanks for your review. MisterBee1966 (talk) 13:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment I think you have to use accessible signs in cells with orange and yellow background for blind readers, see WP:NOSYMBOLS. Colour is unfortunately not enough. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 11:07, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * done MisterBee1966 (talk) 13:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Comments
 * Table could do with rowscopes, see MOS:DTT for more info
 * Is this mandatory? I tried scope="row" style=text-align:center and I am not very fond of the appearance it renders. But I will bend to popular demand. MisterBee1966 (talk) 07:50, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Its for the benefit of people using screen readers as they have trouble reading the list without it. Also as you have clearly defined row header it should be included. If you just use   and add   to   then the table will look the same apart from the cell being shaded. NapHit (talk) 15:35, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * done MisterBee1966 (talk) 18:44, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Personally I would move the image to after the name
 * The layout follows the FLC lists of Oak Leaves (1940–1941), Oak Leaves (1942), Oak Leaves (1943), Oak Leaves (1944) and Oak Leaves (1945). I want to keep it uniform. MisterBee1966 (talk) 05:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I would also change the key format to something like this. Readers with poor sight might struggle to see it in its current guise
 * see above. I want to keep layout as is. MisterBee1966 (talk) 05:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Personally, I don't think standardisation should stand in the way of benefiting people with poor sight who might struggle to see the symbol and read the writing. not everyone has perfect vision and can read small text. NapHit (talk) 15:35, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Why does Kurt Anderson sort to the bottom when I press the sort icon for the name column, he shouldn't be coming after Axtmann
 * Oops, that was an error. good catch MisterBee1966 (talk) 05:08, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I assume the Rank column sorts in order of military rank? Only asking because its not explicit and its not sorting alphabetically
 * Correct, either from lowest to highest or highest to lowest. MisterBee1966 (talk) 05:51, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, what I was getting at is that it needs to be clear, so would add a note saying it sorts this way. Sorry, I should have made clear first time round. NapHit (talk) 15:35, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

NapHit (talk) 21:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Comments
 * Lead
 * "This number is based on the analysis and acceptance of the order commission of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients". What does "order commission" mean?
 * I linked the term "order commission" to Blue-ribbon panel. The sentence "is an informal term generally used to describe a group of exceptional persons appointed to investigate or study a given question." best explains what they do. Does this work? MisterBee1966 (talk) 06:35, 10 September 2012 (UTC)


 * From the text, it is not clear if the 43 foreign awards are intended to be included or excluded from this general list, but Ion Antonescu, who is on the List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, is not on this list. Without him, the list seems to be incomplete as it does not appear to specify that this is only for Third Reich recipients.
 * Good point, I changed the wording slightly: Listed here are the 118 Knight's Cross recipients of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS whose last name starts with "A". Antonescu does not belong here. MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:52, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Bar Graph:
 * The maximum for the number of presentations is set to 100. This should either match the total number of awards (118) or the largest data point (79).
 * done MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:52, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The maximum for the posthumous awards is set to 10. It should be either 11 or 5.
 * done MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:52, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * List
 * Some of the linked articles have images that are not included on the list.
 * True, but the copy right status, at least to my knowledge, does not allow them to be used on lists. MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:45, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

--DavidCane (talk) 12:23, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
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