Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of municipalities in Louisiana/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 promoted by The Rambling Man via FACBot (talk) 23:31, 6 February 2017 (UTC).

List of municipalities in Louisiana

 * Nominator(s): Mattximus (talk) 22:34, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

With the help of many others, I am attempting to create standardised, high quality featured lists of municipalities in all states, provinces and territories in North America. This will be the 12th such nomination and I believe this article is a complete and comprehensive list of all cities, towns and villages within the state of Louisiana. I have modelled this list off of my recently promoted List of cities and towns in Montana and List of cities and towns in Alabama so it should be of the same high standard. I've incorporated suggestions from recent reviews to make this nomination go as smoothly as possible. Please let me know if there is anything else that can be added to perfect this list. Thanks again for your input. Mattximus (talk) 22:34, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Support This very nice list is well organized and nicely presented. An Earwig checks show the potential of copyvio unlikely and WC3 indicates no dead links. Referencing is light, but heavy referencing seems unnecessary and everything is correctly sourced in the table headers to RS. The LEDE complies with WP:LEDE and represents an accurate summary of the list. I have an issue with the use of the "%" sign instead of "-percent", however, MOS:PERCENT has always been vague and unclear so will defer on that point. Images are sufficiently illustrative of the article and are all correctly licensed. I found no incidences of spelling or grammar issues. The article is stable with no outstanding disputes evident on the Talk page (last discussion was ~3 years ago) and no substantial, recent edits other than those of the nominator.
 * This is, overall, an excellent and important list presented in such a way that its expansion following the 2020 census will be fairly easy to accomplish, thereby ensuring its long-term utility to the project. Very nice job, Mattximus. LavaBaron (talk) 23:04, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your review! And yes that whole 2000 census column will be deleted and replaced by the 2020 census results since it's already quite out of date. Mattximus (talk) 21:06, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Support with pleasure. I'm satisfied. Great work! The only final things I recommend are centering the numerical contents of the final four columns just as done to the three numeric columns before them, and making sure the quantity of municipalities mentioned in the lead is correct with the recent additions to the table. Hope you don't mind my subsequent copyedits. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Comments by Dudley
 * "Municipalities are granted powers to perform any function required by local governments" Are no powers reserved to state level?
 * Changed the wording by removing "any". Does that work?


 * "The largest municipality by population in Louisiana in 2010 is New Orleans with 343,829 residents, and the smallest municipality by population is Mound" I do not think you need to repeat "municipality by population".
 * Nice catch, changed.


 * As there are only three notes I would not put them in three columns.
 * Good idea, however I'm now thinking of adding a new column for incorporation date now that a new source has been found, meaning the notes would then become necessary.


 * Is the overall decline in population between 2000 and 2010 worth commenting on?
 * I considered this (talking about the effects of Hurricane Katrina), but I thought it might be a bit beside the main point of the article, and also the 2000 data is quite out of date and I have templates created for easy transition to the new census data when it is done in a few years. A new population trend will emerge with different explanations.


 * Looks fine. These queries are minor. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your review! Mattximus (talk) 21:27, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Support. Dudley Miles (talk) 15:36, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'm not sure if you have time, but I've made population and area changes to two consolidated governments (Lafayette and Baton Rouge) by adding the unincorporated areas of their parishes into their population total, since the municipalities also govern these lands. I've added notes detailing why, but I'm not sure if this is original research. I've also added a column on incorporation dates. I'm not sure if these changes warrant discussion/change your vote. Thanks! Mattximus (talk) 02:35, 27 January 2017 (UTC)


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