Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books)/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 Dabomb87 00:19, 21 August 2011.

List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books)

 * Nominator(s): bamse (talk) 17:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

This is the last of the set of featured lists of National Treasures of Japan. It covers among others poetry collections, prose works and historical chronicles written in Japan. The list has been modelled on other featured lists of National Treasures of Japan. bamse (talk) 17:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Basic comments Check the bibliography section like your previous nomination. There are full dates for some of the book sources, and in some there is just the year. Similar for accessdate. I presume this is because of using the reftag tool? — Legolas ( talk 2 me ) 14:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. All publication dates are now year only, and all have accessdates in the same style. bamse (talk) 14:53, 20 July 2011 (UTC)


 * More basic comments The lead feels a little too long, and goes beyond the scope and inclusion criteria in the list, but the information is good and I think will be engaging to readers. Could I suggest moving the second, large paragraph (After the introduction of writing from Korea...) to a new section below the lead, perhaps either before or after the Statistics section (I'm not sure where it would be more appropriate). I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 17:06, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The lead does not feel too long for me. Its length is comparable to other long articles such as Seattle. Furthermore it agrees with the recommendation in the MOS. The second paragraph summarizes the development of Japanese literature and mentions the various genres that are discussed in more detail in later sections of the article. As such it summarizes the article and puts the various genres (or sections) in context; which I consider the purpose of a lead section. For these reasons, I would prefer not to move the second paragraph out of the lead section. bamse (talk) 19:08, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, I didn't know MOS made recommendation for lead length, so thanks for showing me that. You are right then, in that the section should remain in the lead. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 15:39, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Support - outstanding work, and amazingly accesible to a layman like me. Eisfbnore   &bull; talk   05:53, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

This is a minor point, but I noticed there were some redlinks in the bibilography (e.g. Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Seikadō Bunko Art Museum, Yōmei Bunko, Nabeshima Hōkōkai). I don't think it's necessarily bad to have red links, but are all these articles likely be to created in the future? I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 00:23, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Redlinks?
 * Yes, as locations/owners of National Treasures of Japan, these are relevant entities that will likely get an article in the future. In fact I am planning to have articles on all temples/shrines/museums that house or own National Treasures. Recently I wrote: Shōjō-ji, Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art, Anraku-ji (Ueda), and Omura Shrine. There are other wikipedia users (e.g. User:663highland, User:Tenmei) creating such articles as well, so I am quite optimistic that this goal will be achieved in the not too distant future. bamse (talk) 00:31, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Support As my comments have been addressed and concerns were fairly rebutted, I am more than happy to support the FL nomination. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 23:55, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Support This is one hell of a work. I had looked into it for quite some time, but did not find anything thwarting its promotion for me. — Legolas ( talk 2 me ) 14:57, 19 August 2011 (UTC)


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