Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of counties in New York


 * 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 04:08, 31 January 2008.

List of counties in New York
It's been a while since my last edits, so feel free to pick it apart. Modeled after previous featured county lists. Geraldk (talk) 00:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd like the county seat links to link to the proper political unit, instead of a disambiguation page. New York is notorious for that crap. :P I see at least Lockport, Schoharie, Riverhead, Owego, Lake George, and Lyons with brownlinks, but some of the bluelinks might be leading to larger disambig pages as well. --Golbez (talk) 02:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, or at least I'm pretty sure I got all of 'em. Geraldk (talk) 03:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the "formed from" for Bronx simply say "Westchester County"? Also, the "one of the original 12" statements on 'formed from' are not all identical, some say the colony, some don't, etc. Finally, three of the boroughs have a county seat named, whereas the others just have the parenthetical. Are these neighborhoods/postal names? And why do the other two (Kings and New York) lack these? I think that's about it. --Golbez (talk) 22:17, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed em all. As to the last bit, it also disagreed with the lead, which said that New York City is considered to be the county seat of all five boroughs, so I just put NYC as the seat and kept the borough in parentheses. Geraldk (talk) 22:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Great. Support! --Golbez (talk) 22:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support It's good to see you back, Geraldk. Job well done!-- Crzycheetah 23:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Bronx County was formed from New York County (not Westchester), and the western half anyway had been in New York County for forty years. Also, Bronx County was formed in 1914, not 1912 (only the law was passed in 1912).--Pharos (talk) 08:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Good catch - both fixed now. Geraldk (talk) 14:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Support - Looks good. I'd like it even better if the table of proposed counties included information about the date and status of the proposals. --Orlady (talk) 18:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - Meets all the requirements. Good lead. Tom pw (talk) (review) 19:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
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