Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of cities in the Philippines/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 PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:32, 4 May 2016 (UTC).

List of cities in the Philippines

 * Nominator(s): Sanglahi86 (talk) 05:32, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because it contains well-organized relevant (political and geographical) data about all existing cities in the Philippines in a single sortable table. The table has been revised several times in the past for optimal/proper sorting and visual appeal. Sanglahi86 (talk) 05:32, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose - numerous issues; list appears a ways from FL quality.
 * Lead is almost non-existent. See List of municipalities in New Brunswick (FLC, below) for an example of a more comprehensive lead
 * Chunks of overview are unreferenced
 * The table is almost entirely unreferenced
 * Table is missing rowscopes, and seems to be using a double-table header to move the sort button down?
 * Random provinces are italicized in the table, as are some effective dates
 * City charter should be a reference attached to the approval date, not a column of external links
 * "Dates of inauguration/organization" is a section floating off on its own, which should be above the table or an actual note
 * Many of the references appear to just be sentences with a link, rather than formatted references
 * The biggest deal-breaker is that the table is unreferenced, with just notes pointing off to other websites where you can find the information. It needs actual references. It's possible that you can get away with citing columns of the table to a specific page- like List of municipalities in Ontario does, but only if an entire column can be cited to a single webpage; there is still the second big issue that the text surrounding the table is a bit anemic. -- Pres N  19:00, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for bringing up these issues. I have finished exhaustively replacing all the bare external links with formatted references and inline citations. I have also added row scopes (based on what was done in List of municipalities in Ontario). The double table header was done to make the wide table more compact in the limited space by creating a separate row for sorting. The italics in those provinces and dates were intentional and have a meaning; a table note at the bottom of the table describes the reason/s why they were italicized. Sanglahi86 (talk) 12:10, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Even though I voted on this nomination, I'm going to go ahead and close it- after 2 months, there haven't been any other replies, which would be enough to close it just to keep the queue moving, but in addition several of my points were not addressed- there is still a lot of the table unreferenced, and the supporting text was not improved. -- Pres N  21:38, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


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