Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of most viewed YouTube videos/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 archived by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:31, 6 June 2017 (UTC).

List of most viewed YouTube videos

 * Nominator(s): Daylen (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because this list has been viewed almost half a million times, it is being constantly updated with new information as it comes available, contains a lead section which nicely summarises the articles in the list, the entry includes an image, and the facts are well sourced. Daylen (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: this nomination was not actually transcluded onto WP:FL until May 25. -- Pres N  14:58, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Oppose and considering speedy close- this list is a long way from featured quality. The lead is just a set of short statements with strange formatting instead of a discussion about what's interesting or important about high-view Youtube videos, videos are excluded from the list because they "manipulated" to get high up, which means that the editor in question didn't like the way they got a high view count; most of the interesting comments about the videos are hidden in the notes section instead of a comments column, half of each note and many of the notes entirely don't have references, 63-80 don't even have notes, linking the the videos in question by making it a reference for the video name is odd, sorting by name sorts "The"s wrong, there seems to be a lot of sourcing to non-official "top 100 videos" videos (and I saw one that's to a random google spreadsheet?), the Historical most viewed videos section has 11 videos instead of "all" or "10" for not explained reason... There's a lot to sort out here. -- Pres N  15:11, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Oppose Agree with above. The list starts with wording we longer use "This list....." Lead needs a major rewrite. I would expect more detail on the videos themselves and categories of videos that have been the most viewed. References to non reliable refs such as a Google Spreadsheet, Hot in Social Media, Quora, Grapevine Online. Table is not accessible. Cowlibob (talk) 16:08, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Pinging in case you didn't watchlist this page. With two opposes off the bat, I'm planning on archiving this nomination in a couple days unless someone starts working on the major issues. -- Pres N  19:15, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Closing. -- Pres N  01:13, 5 June 2017 (UTC)


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