Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of islets of Caroline Island/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 15:22, 26 April 2008.

List of islets of Caroline Island
User:Viriditas recently suggested that I nominate this as a featured list; it was created in support of Caroline Island, which has been a featured article since 2006. -- Sethant (talk) 20:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Comments from -  M ILK'S F AVORITE C OOKIE   (Talk)  -  M ILK'S F AVORITE C OOKIE   (Talk)  21:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments from
 * Comment What's with the strange background colors? Gary King (talk) 20:50, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia often uses background colors to create contrast and enhance readability (see the top of this page, for instance), and that's what has been done with this list. -- Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * List of Presidents of the United States makes a great use of background colors. For this list, I assumed that colors were related (i.e. one color indiciated something) but from your reply, it seems like that is not the case. I think that would decrease readability rather than increase it. At the very least, I would suggest to use a lighter color. Some off the top of my head are #eef and #fee, which I believe are light and 'warm' colors.
 * I would also consider adding headers to the last two columns that don't have one.
 * Left-align the second last column with the large paragraphs. Gary King (talk) 21:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The article currently has no citations.
 * The full list of references are given at the bottom of the article. -- Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The lead title needs to be bolded and the links should be removed per WP:LEAD
 * The closest thing to the article title in the lead was already bolded. I see nothing in WP:LEAD that prohibits links with the lead section; in fact, most Wikipedia articles and list contain links within the lead. - Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * They shouldn't contain links in the bold part of the lead. That's what the WP:MOS says, specifically at WP:LEAD.  The Rambling Man (talk) 16:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Some/All of the images should have captions. What is the lead image?
 * All of the images have explanatory captions or headers. - Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I have to oppose at the moment, it's a confusing list, it has a few MOS issues as above. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments from
 * I'd prefer to see the title of the list in the lead, bolded, rather than the current opening.
 * Image caption for lead is a fragment so lose the full stop. And check all other images.
 * Link islet somewhere.
 * None of the lead is cited, for example the claim of 39 islets. Can this be proved?
 * "the most distinguishing feature of each islet" - according to whom?
 * "speak to prior human habitation," - perhaps my BritEng is the problem here, but I guess we'd say "prove" or "hint to", definitely not "speak to".
 * Convert the areas from hectares to acres (or square miles, whatever) so the Imperial-ists can understand.
 * 18m, 14m, these should be converted to Imperial too.
 * " only abour 300 m " - typo, use the convert template.
 * Motu links to a dab page.
 * Why the occasional link to 10^4, 10^5 etc for the areas?
 * Why is the table multi-coloured? Does it mean something?
 * Some of the entries appear left-aligned, some are centrally aligned, it should be consistent.
 * Oppose Very confusing, no in-line citations, MoS issues, odd table, etc. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  18:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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