Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of colleges and universities in Alabama/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 Giants2008 21:04, 14 October 2011.

List of colleges and universities in Alabama

 * Nominator(s): Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 21:30, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel it meets the FL criteria. This list was patterned after List of colleges and universities in New Hampshire and List of colleges and universities in Vermont, both featured lists. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 21:30, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Support, all issues resolved, meets WP:WIAFL. –Drilnoth (T/C) 23:10, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Comment The table almost meets WP:ACCESS just two issues. First the tables need a caption and you need to put an exclamation mark before  instead of a pipe. NapHit (talk) 21:13, 6 September 2011 (UTC) – HonorTheKing (talk) 20:08, 22 September 2011 (UTC) – HonorTheKing (talk) 00:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC) – HonorTheKing (talk) 05:45, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * (not the nominator) Don't the section headers function as captions of a sort? It would be redundant to have captions shown for users who read the articles normally (showing the table name twice), and I would assume that the same thing would occur for screen reader software, etc. –Drilnoth (T/C) 21:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd also argue that using the header cell style for the school names looks pretty ugly. –Drilnoth (T/C) 21:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * For the header style, I found a "class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"" that un-bolds and un-centers the headers. The shading alone doesn't look bad, IMO.  For the captions, I agree, but,
 * Done and Done. —Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 21:53, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe put the Institutions notes in the bottom of the page in his own Footnote section, above References?, it will look much better that what it looks now.
 * done. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 23:39, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Last thing you should add ALT to the image but overall well done, good list, Just fix that bit but I Support this.
 * I'm a n00b at alt text; what would it contain that the caption doesn't? Descriptions of the buildings? Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 03:52, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Read Alternative text for images, Basically descriptions of the buldings look that are in the picture.
 * Done. —Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 23:08, 23 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Support, but with pause. I see no tangible problems, but the lead doesn't feel all that good to me. It just jumps in with a few facts and figures without much of an introduction on that topic. That being said, I can't really think of anything that could be added in to the lead, and other lists have been promoted with a lead in this style, so I won't worry about it. Also, the enrollment should be updated for this year, but in a sense that's busy work. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 17:48, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Finding current enrollment figures (especially for the smaller schools) is spotty at best. Many of the smaller institutions don't publish it readily (online at least).  Also, the US DoE source given is independent, plus having statistics from all the same time and using the same method for counting gives a better comparison.  If you know of source that gives all of the enrollments for fall 2011, I'd be happy to switch to it. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 20:41, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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