Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of U.S. states and their state flower, tree, and bird

List of U.S. states and their state flower, tree, and bird
' I hereby withdraw my nomination due to previously undiscovered redundancy.  G . H  e ' 03:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Nominator: I believe that this list is fit for Featured List because it contains useful information regarding each of the states' flower, tree, and bird. I believe that this list is quite unique (to my knowledge) and that it contains balanced information through a visually pleasing and well-formatted format. It contains good pictures as well as visual flag icons to identify the states. It is well-organized in a table format for easy navigation and comprehension. Along with the English names are the names in Latin, which may be useful in scientific studies. Overall, I believe this list would be pleasing for readers. I welcome any comments and constructive criticism. Please share your opinion below. Thanks.  G . H  e  01:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose - the list lacks coherency. There is no particular reason to include flower, tree and bird together, it is not a natural triplet. Why not include State amphibians? State butterflies? State grasses? We already have individual lists for state birds, state trees and state flowers (though they aren't all as pretty as this combined list and could do with having some pictures added). We also have lists of state dances, dinosaurs, fish, fruit, mammals, reptiles and even official state soils! I don't see why we should put arbitrary triplets of these together into combined lists. I fear that this list was created because the editor didn't notice state trees, birds or lists in the "U.S. state lists" navbox... however, we have so many lists of state insignia that they are hidden away under the "insignia" part of the navbox. For this reason I am going to remove the link to this newly added combined list from the navbox. This sounds really cruel but perhaps this list should be either deleted or turned into a disambig to the three other lists? It wouldn't take too much effort to turn those into featured lists and I'm not at all sure that the maintenance of redundant lists is worth doing - it's just one more thing to keep updated, keep free from vandalism, and to check that it's being kept consistent with other articles. However, I strongly congratulate the editor for the effort that has been spent on this very pretty list - my advice would be to take as much of it as possible over to the other individual lists and work on them. One thing that would be really good would be to reference the state legislation that made these birds, flowers etc "official". If I saw that I would be incredibly impressed :) TheGrappler 01:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC) (edited for minor clarification by TheGrappler 02:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC))