Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of American Idol finalists/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 removed by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 31 May 2021 (UTC).

List of American Idol finalists

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The article currently has the "refimprove" tag. I addressed this at the talk page, but the discussion hasn't received replies to this date. With the tag intact, I'm no longer sure that the list meets FL standards. George Ho (talk) 22:41, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sourcing for the lead is bad and I'm not sure why the selection criteria of "finalists" (rather than e.g. "winners") is appropriate, given that that's a large number of people (at least now) and no coverage in secondary sources is presented. A list of ages and hometowns is fancruft, also perhaps dubious under WP:BLPPRIVACY given some of the contestants may not be known outside the show; perhaps instead columns about the songs they sung in the finale or the genres they were associated with by reliable secondary sources could be possible. This definitely isn't 2021 FL standard and in fact if there remains no sourcing improvement it could be redirected to American Idol. (Feel free to ping me when this reaches FARC stage.) — Bilorv ( talk ) 14:26, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't have a real comment on the FL status, but for the merits of this just existing as a list it would be inappropriate to redirect. Nearly all of them up until the most recent few seasons each have their own articles, and so I don't see a claim for privacy concerns there where they are not only independently notable, but deliberately participated in a television series to jumpstart a career (and most of the finalists were successful in that regard to one degree or another). Our category is even broader, Category:American Idol participants. On the sourcing, I see your objection really is just on the details of age and hometown, which is all the list states aside from name, placing, and season. That information was broadcast, and sources could also be migrated over from individual articles. postdlf (talk) 22:26, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delist not only does it excessively rely on one source (American Idol's website) when it would be beneficial to have more diversity within references, but there's no citations for anybody from seasons 12–19, and it's misleading to call this page a list of "finalists" unless it only counted those who competed in each season's finale. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 19:05, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delist Undercited, excessive reliance on the American Idol website, and I'm not sure that the uncited "Deaths" section really needs to be there. Hog Farm Talk 15:54, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Giants2008 ( Talk ) 22:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
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