Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts/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 Scorpion0422 22:46, 25 April 2009.

List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts

 * Nominator(s): Kevin Rutherford (talk)

I am nominating this for featured list because I have significantly upgraded the article from a week ago. I also am aware of the red links and will work to create those pages as soon as I am able to do so. If need be, I am willing to remove the inactice list and accept the page being featured with the top list as the only part. I have modeled the list after the similar New Hampshire and Vermont lists. I would appreciate any criticism. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:16, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

(Anonymous user) I second the nomination. I see some promise in this article, and will help with necessary rewrite. (Mr. Rutheford is away and has delegated this to me.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.91.3 (talk) 00:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Comment FLs no longer begin "This is a list of...". See recently promoted lists for examples of more engaging starts. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:29, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm on it. That was an oversight that I will fix in the other aforementioned lists as well. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Hope this helps. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 01:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments from KV5
 * "117 such colleges" - remove such
 * "law school" - law schools
 * "undergraduate associates and baccalaureate colleges". I'm not sure what you are trying to say here, consider a reword.
 * You mention 117 schools twice in quick succession. Trim.
 * There are no references at all in the lead. There should be, especially since the list refs just establish the existence of schools.
 * "Enrollment sizes range from the small," - remove "the" and the comma
 * "with less than 19 students" - commas around this
 * "to the private school Boston University in Boston, which serves over 30,000 students." - Consider a change to "to Boston University, a private school which serves over 30,000 students.
 * Per MOS:HEAD, Active institutions, Inactive institutions, External links
 * Refs should be in a separate column in both tables or neither table. If you keep them with the years, no spaces between reference and entry.
 * Those external links should be general references.
 * "Never Opened" - "Never opened"
 * Refs alone in a cell should be centered.
 * 2 columns in the reflist.
 * I'll get to that right away. I actually have already fixed some of them before reading this. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:18, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

More to come later if the last one is fixed. NuclearWarfare  ( Talk ) 02:21, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose -
 * Any chance of getting some images? Shouldn't be that hard to get some new ones if you live in Massachusetts, and I'd be surprised if we didn't have at least some of the big ones (MIT, Harvard, Amherst, etc.) already.
 * For the blank cells, can you replace then with " &mdash; "?
 * There is a random " align="center"| " in the ref cell of Andover Theological Seminary.
 * Could the closed institutions please all be sourced?
 * The lead most definitely has to be expanded
 * I fixed all but the last thing. I will see to it that it will be expanded though. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose -
 * This is what I posted in response to User:Chonak at Talk:List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts: I agree. There are some patent issues with this. One egregious one seems to be WP:OR -- things like "Although there are many schools currently operating, 66 other schools have closed or merged with other schools in the state." There's no source for this; that information is garnered from a poorly compiled list of closed schools. I call it poorly compiled because there are clearly institutions here that have neither "closed" nor "merged" but simply changed their names: Cambridge Junior College is almost certainly Cambridge College, Chamberlayne Junior College is Mount Ida College, Jackson College for Women has always been part of Tufts University, &c. This needs some major re-working and isn't ready for Featured status. I'll get working on some cleanup, but I won't have time until tomorrow at the earliest. --Aepoutre (talk) 04:16, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I'd like to explain why I added colleges like Chamberlayne and Jackson. I added them because they are no longer their own separate school. I did this to show that at one time, they were a separate operating entity. That is the only reason that they are there. If you would like to have a discussion over this, I am all in support of it. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 16:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose -
 * I've made several corrections to the list in recent days -- e.g., Harvard was listed as a Master's-level institution -- and I expect that other errors and inconsistencies remain to be resolved. Chonak (talk) 18:57, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree that there are corrections to be made there. It was a pain to get accurate information from pages that were really contradictory. I actually thought that I listed Harvard as a doctorate school. Thanks for catching that. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 16:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Comment
 * Ref column shouldn't be sortable.— Chris!  c t 02:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I have no idea how to keep that from being sortable without removing the sorting parameter from the entire table. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 16:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I did it. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
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