Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations


 * 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 User:The Rambling Man 18:10, 29 June 2008.

List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations
This is a list that I started work on a few months ago, then completely forgot about. It is the merged (and improved) result of three former FLs. All concerns are welcome and will be addressed by me. -- Scorpion0422 04:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Support Looks great. Drewcifer (talk) 21:00, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment "left in 1987; rejoined in 1997; suspended in 2000; readmitted in 2001; resuspended in 2006.[18]" – Use a capital "L" for "Left" since the other Notes begin with capital letters; same with "suspended in 2002; left in 2003.[7][20]". These are sentence fragments, so perhaps even remove the periods altogether from all of the Notes. Gary King ( talk ) 15:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Scorpion0422 16:21, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Please tell us how old the population figures are. Baldrick90 (talk) 18:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Scorpion0422 18:45, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The Rambling Man (talk) 10:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments from
 * Sorry to say but boring intro line, a verbatim copy of the list title. Can you be more imaginative?
 * Nope, I'm a boring person, so I removed the line.
 * No need for two maps in my opinion. And the second is lacking a key so I can't tell what colours mean what joining date...
 * Done.
 * British English would seem most appropriate for this so "organization" ought to be organisation.
 * Done.
 * "independance " should be "independence".
 * Done.
 * "the modern commonwealth " for consistency, ought not Commonwealth be capitalised here?
 * Done.
 * "...which comprise of over 1.9 billion people..." hmm, lots of debate over the validity of "comprise of" - check out the internet here and here - a reword would avoid any potential conflict.
 * Done.
 * The lead describes "Oceania" and "Australasia" as separate entities but then the table uses Oceania (and I've seen the comments above about a generic title) - this is still uncomfortable for me.
 * Fixed.
 * Maybe worth discussing why Fiji is suspended.
 * Done.
 * Don't use the in-line link "Nations Secretariat members list" - just create another reference.
 * Done.
 * "didn't " - naughty, avoid contractions.
 * Done.
 * " most population figures are based on 2007" which ones aren't and what are they based on?
 * I have added notes for the three nations that were not based on 2007 figures.
 * Can you explain the significance of "Special Member"?
 * Yes, and done.
 * Can you force the col widths of the first two tables to be the same?
 * I've tried but had no luck. The column widths are both exactly alike, but for some reason the country column of the second table is off. I've tried many different things but have had no success.
 * "Merged " vs "suspended" - consistent note capitalisation required.
 * Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion0422 22:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Comment: Can we delete that lead sentence? Its completely redundant to the title of the article. (There was that discussion initiated by Tony1 a while back) Looks good otherwise indopug (talk) 17:11, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It has been removed. -- Scorpion0422 22:50, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Support: This list looks ok, but please link Commonwealth Secretary-General at the end of lead paragraph 1.--Dem393 (talk) 20:10, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Support But I like pictures, so I'd like to see one of the Queen or Kamalesh Sharma, the current Commonwealth Sec-Gen. :) Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 04:19, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Can you fix the sort order for population? Colin°Talk 21:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can. I'll do that right now. -- Scorpion0422 21:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
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