Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of church ruins on Gotland/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 SchroCat 10:29, 6 November 2014.

List of church ruins on Gotland

 * Nominator(s): Yakikaki (talk) 07:56, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it has a potential of becoming a good featured list, on a topic which isn't greatly covered but which is in many ways interesting. Yakikaki (talk) 07:56, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Initial comment
 * You have added the link to the Google and Bing maps but the maps do not show the name of each site. You need to add |type:landmark_region:GB|name=site name. See for example List of Local Nature Reserves in Greater London. It can take a 2 or 3 days before the site name is shown on the map. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:55, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the input! I've added the names now, and look forward to being able to see the names on the map; this always annoyed me, so thanks for the input! Yakikaki (talk) 18:40, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * "This is a list of church ruins on the Swedish island of Gotland" It is forbidden under Wikipedia rules to start a list article "This is a list"
 * Sorry about that, I've seen it in so many lists I thought it was almost required... I agree it looks much better without it.


 * "For a list of still functioning churches on Gotland, see the article on churches on Gotland." I do not think this should be in the first paragraph. It could go at the end of the lead or in a See also section.
 * I moved it to a See also section.


 * Your figures seem confusing. You say in para 3 that 7 are in the countryside, which agrees with the list, but in the first para you say that 13 out of 19 are in Visby, but you only list 12. Then you say that at least 12 were built within the city walls, which presumably includes surviving churches, and later that all but one were ruined. It is not clear how many were outside the walls and whether they are classed as Visby churches.
 * It should be right now: nineteen in total, twelve in Visby and of these, ten inside the walls.


 * "Following the Battle of Visby in 1361, building activity declined." Presumably the battle was a disaster for Gotland, but worth explaining.
 * Very good point; I've tried to elaborate the section about the decline a bit.


 * "The abbey was disbanded" - I don't think disbanded is the right word for an abbey.
 * Changed it to "dissolved", which I hope is more appropriate.


 * The pictures and descriptions are first class. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:42, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words and these excellent comments! Yakikaki (talk) 20:57, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support. A very good list. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:08, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support looks good to me.  Jim Car ter  04:55, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Complete and comprehensive. w.carter -Talk  09:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)


 * – SchroCat (talk) 10:34, 6 November 2014 (UTC)


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