Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates/Archive 23

Why are nominations so rarely archived?
The WP:FLC header reads "Each nomination will last at least ten days (though most last a month or longer) and may be lengthened where changes are ongoing and it seems useful to continue the process." What seems to happen in practice, is "each nomination will last, no matter what, until it is either ready for promotion or completely impracticable to keep open". At the moment at the bottom of the FLC page, we have:
 * Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, which is over three months old and has a single prose support.
 * List of European Le Mans Series champions, which is over three months old and has a single prose support.
 * Portland Trail Blazers all-time roster, which is over 12 weeks old and has two prose supports.
 * List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress, which is over 12 weeks old and has no prose supports.
 * List of Inkigayo Chart winners (2016) which is over 11 weeks old and has two prose supports.

I have seen this before when looking at FLC. It seems to me that by keeping these old nominations open way longer than they should be, the process's reviewing capacity is in effect diluted. If a soft time limit (say two months, like FAC) was actually enforced, I think FLC would start to run much smoother. As it stands, only seven current nominators have bothered to review other nominations. That is quite frankly pitiful for a collaborative project. &#126;~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It's because, in good months, we usually have about 30 nominations active, of which maybe 1 is more than 10 weeks old. And those neglected nominations do eventually get reviewed (though sometimes I do a review+promotion). In bad months, however, we end up like we are now... and for some reason this happens every December-February.
 * More specifically, it's because I feel bad archiving a nomination solely because not enough people have reviewed it yet- that's not the fault of the list or nominator. FAC is pretty aggressive about it, but FLC hasn't been since maybe 2017. I do agree, however, that it's currently out of hand. -- Pres N  01:46, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Maybe it would help if we put a note in the nomination instructions encouraging people to optionally review other nominations? This would be similar to WP:GAN/I, which notes: (Optional): Consider reviewing two nominations for each one that you nominate. This does not imply quid pro quo. This simply means that helping to review articles will help the Wikipedia community by cutting down the backlog as a way to help pay it forward. RunningTiger123 (talk) 05:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I've recently been trying to do at least a QPQ for my nominations, and did a review for my newest nom earlier today. -- Zoo  Blazer   06:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Probably should be doing a few since you need 3 (including someone reviewing sources) for a list to pass. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:04, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


 * There's a few regulars who's FLCs I never review because I've never once seen them do reviews for others. They're well within their rights not to, but it seems unfair to expect others to review your work without reviewing anybody else's. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Some days I go through the list and see what I can review and find that what I want to review is very. There's definitely more lists that I could review, but I find myself completely unwanting to due to never seeing a few experienced users do reviews for others. Similarly, there are specific reviewers, such as ChrisTheDude, who do a lot of great quality reviews and I always want to rush to review their lists as a result. Really there's no reason that nominators should have 20+ FLs and not be doing at least a couple reviews for others. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:09, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @AirshipJungleman29: I actually did a source review on List of Inkigayo Chart winners (2016) and supported based on that, not on prose. Additionally, I think it's relevant to note that List of European Le Mans Series champions and Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University have source reviews done. That's usually the part of the process that we end up waiting longer for in my experience. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:19, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * FAC has Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Image and source check requests, is there such a thing at FLC too? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:22, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * There's Featured list candidates/backlog/items which has a source reviews needed section. From what I've observed articles are usually only added there when they're waiting on a source review for promotion, as opposed to waiting for more overall reviews as well. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:35, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Bot promotions
Is it possible to have the bot link the article name in the edit summary when it does a promotion?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:07, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Presumably? I guess you could ask, who created and maintains the bot, if you want; the FLC team does not control it. -- Pres N  05:11, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ This change has been implemented. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:41, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

List with some missing info
Is either List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year or List of Men's  Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year a viable candidate with a table that is incomplete?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:35, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Neither list seems to explain why the table is incomplete, which makes it hard to say if the lists are viable with these gaps. Also, I went looking for the 2006-07 men's gap, and this not only has it but calls it "NAIA Division II", which doesn't match what the lede says it was called at the time. -- Pres N  21:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * User:PresN, I am starting to look for missing refs. At the List of Academic All-America Team Members of the Year list, I found one ref to verify the list of all previous winners. Is that sufficient or do I need to find refs for each year with details on the qualifications each winner had to win in his/her/their year?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:54, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * That source appears to have the information that's actually in the table, so it's sufficient. -- Pres N  21:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured lists
Centralizing the discussion. Please see the above link for my proposal regarding the WP:FLCR. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk)  @ 17:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University/archive1
@PresN You have closed the FLC arbitrarily:

This nomination has been open for four months; in that time it's gotten one support and one oppose
 * As I see, there are two supports and one oppose.

especially after AirshipJungleman29 said that you should check the prose as well as the infobox and no edits were made there
 * I believe the edits were made, also mentioned so on the FLC page with note, along with pinging the said user. Also, I do not see the said user saying anything about prose. Rather, they specifically said ...issues with the infobox alone... I haven't even checked the prose or the list itself

What does "NIRF ranking of the university dropped from third to sixth after five years" even mean?
 * I have answered this to an FLC comment earlier.

It would have been great if you would have
 * acknowledged the two supports;
 * acknowledged that edits were made after the opposer's comments, and that they did not return to provide constructive feedback thereafter, thereby impeding the process;
 * placed the onus and responsibility on the opposer, rather than outrightly rejecting FLC with final comments;
 * understood that this article is written in Indian English;
 * given this editor a chance to reply before closing the FLC.
 * placed the questions/feedback in closing remarks as comments/feedback during the 4 month period of this FLC (in which you have been active indirectly).

Thank you, Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 03:55, 16 March 2024 (UTC)


 * You did get two supports, but at the end of the day, there was not a consensus for promotion and there was still apparently a fair bit left to actually review. 4 months is a really long time for a nomination to stay open and we don't leave them open indefinitely. Hey man im josh (talk) 04:23, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You also didn't mark the references as dead, as requested by Airship. I'm noticing a number of authors missing from references when they're listed at the sources as well. Hey man im josh (talk) 04:30, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Hey man im josh, thanks for the reply. I believe all references are Archived, is there a bot to check and mark refs as dead? Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 04:53, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Go to the page history of the article and click the fix dead links button to run the bot to check for them. --  Zoo Blazer  04:57, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thanks, it runs the IAbot, which has been run. I was looking for a bot to scan/search for dead urls and mark them as such. Anyway, I have manually search and marked the faulty dead urls as such. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 05:22, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * there was not a consensus -- 2 supports (after detailed and continued discussions) and 1 oppose (without the opposer returning to provide comments/feedback on action taken/edits made) is no consensus? Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 05:25, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * That's correct. You need to receive support from more than 2 people, typically at least 3. The opposer gave a ton of feedback, some of which you hadn't done, such as marking dead links, but they basically said there's so much wrong with it they don't want to get into a back and forth pointing out every issue because it would take too much time. There's also the issue of the list still needing portions reviewed after nearly 4 months. So, even if they didn't say "oppose" and just gave feedback, you still wouldn't have had the list entirely reviewed yet or have had enough support to pass. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:48, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Ultimately, if a nomination has been open for more than 2 months, something has gone wrong-either not enough reviewers have reviewed it, or there are still significant problems that are stopping people from supporting or leading them to oppose. As you can see in the section above, some people would prefer if I was much more aggressive in closing stalled nominations, instead of leaving them open for 4 months like I did this one. FAC, for example, will close a nomination if nothing happens to it for 2 weeks, which isn't something I do here.
 * In any case, the nomination needed to be closed as it was way over time by any measure. AirshipJungleman29 did not return to the nomination, so I could not say if his oppose was no longer justified to him, so as FLC delegate I could only say if it seemed justified to me as the closer. And what I saw was that he opposed on the infobox alone, and said to re-check the prose, and yet no edits seemed to have been made to the prose, and I was able to see multiple issues in the prose and table in 30s of looking. That's not the kind of thing I'd expect for a nomination that had been reviewed by multiple people and been open for months. I listed them out as an explanation of why I was closing it; it wasn't a full review, which is why I did not wait for your response.
 * So, could I promote it? No. Could I let it keep lingering on for further months? No. So, I closed it. Closing a nomination is not a condemnation of you as an editor or even of the list, but just a statement that it does not have a quick path to promotion at this time. Feel free to renominate it whenever, but please make sure to fix any issues that you can before nominating.
 * To respond to some of your specific points: It was one prose support, the other was for images; I know they didn't come back after the oppose vote, which is why I had to evaluate if their concerns were addressed myself; and the onus is always on the nominator to make the list as good as they can, not on the reviewers to justify themselves to the nominator's satisfaction. -- Pres N  13:44, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Noted with thanks. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 08:55, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Another nomination?
"Nominators should not add a second featured list nomination until the first has gained substantial support and reviewers' concerns have been substantially addressed." It seems from recent nominations that having two supports is considered "substantial". Am I OK to make another nomination given the state of Featured list candidates/Snooker world rankings 1983/1984/archive1? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yep, you're good. -- Pres N  03:24, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Dr. Ken episodes
So question is List of Dr. Ken episodes too short to be an FLC? It only ran for two seasons and had around 45 episodes. It wasn't really beloved so their may not be enough sources regardless. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 15:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I don't see it being an issue. Typically the issues we face with lists being too short occur when there are under 10 possible entries. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:35, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is well above the length where there would be issues. -- Pres N  15:49, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't hesitate that the list would be long enough for a featured list, but I do feel that the list may have been unnecessarily split from Dr. Ken. That article is fairly short and likely wouldn't meet the requirements of MOS:TVSPLIT. Especially knowing that the series has concluded, the parent article could easily hold this list. The Doctor Who  (talk) 16:12, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I did a test edit and copied the series overview table over to the parent article, it returned a "readable prose size" of 2271 B which would equal 2.27kb. This number does not account for episode summaries, but MOS:TVSPLIT recommends estimating a 200 word summary at 1kb per episode. That would only make the article 46.27kb which falls just shy of the 50-60kb required for splitting. I'll expand on this by saying that no summary is at 200 words, most are just around or less than 100, so If I cut the 1kb per episode in half, it's safer to estimate one single complete article with no LoE page around 24kb which would definitely not justify the separate list.


 * Unless you plan on expanding the summaries and the content on the parent page, the two should be merged. The Doctor Who  (talk) 16:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, that is unfortunate. I can begin merge shortly. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 16:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

RfC on the leads of DOY articles and their FL eligibility
Should the leads of Days Of the Year (DOY) articles be expanded to comply with MOS:LEADLENGTH/WP:FLCR or should those policies be modified to create an exception for DOY articles per the apparent consensus against changing DOY leads?

Dan the Animator 01:32, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section, Wikipedia talk:Days of the year. voorts (talk/contributions) 23:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * In case it helps, here's a more drawn out explanation of the question above. Of the 367 DOY articles (representing each of the 366 days of the year for the standard Gregorian Calendar plus one article which is a simple directory that's mostly irrelevant to this discussion), many have been gradually improved following a change of the DOY Wikiproject's consensus (link to that discussion on that change) on the need for in-line citations within DOY articles.
 * The main question comes from the stagnation of my Featured List nomination for the DOY article February 8. While I've edited that article substantially and have also brought it through a peer review some months ago, the article hasn't been able to gain any support at WP:FLC as of yet due to the issue of the lead size.
 * Per the Featured List criteria, all FL articles must have an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. However, per the guidelines at DOY Wikiproject, the leads of DOY articles must follow the standard on the sample page, which consists of the boilerplate text January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is preceded by December 31 (in the previous year), and succeeded by January 2. Following January 1, there are 364 days in the year (365 in leap years).
 * Due to the FL lead requirement, which itself stems from the MOS policy on lead formatting, the FLN for February 8 (and de facto any other DOY article) can't pass FLC unless the lead is expanded or the FL criteria is modified to create an exemption for DOY articles. Per the Wikiproject guidelines though, consensus in required to create any changes to any of the DOY articles that go against the Wikiproject sample. As part of the effort to make progress on the FLN, I opened a discussion on 28 December asking for a potential change of the guidelines to allow for longer leads in DOY articles.
 * While only three editors have replied since then, all three expressed different levels of opposition to any changes to the DOY lead formatting, with the main concern being that having an expanded lead isn't feasible/practical. Also, as mentioned above, there has also been a consensus against allowing articles with very short leads to pass FLN so far in the February 8 nom discussion. Personally, it doesn't matter to me whether DOY articles have longer leads to keep the same lead. For me, my hope is to create a pathway for these articles to get quality-recognition which not only would benefit readers by allowing them to know which DOY articles are relatively good quality/trustworthy (one of the main reasons for having quality assessment icons in the first place imo), but also help editors by creating a direction and ultimate goal for improving these fundamental articles of Wikipedia, which are each shown on the front page annually.


 * Also, to preemptively re-address one of the concerns that was raised earlier on the FLN page: while yes, DOY articles are technically "dynamic" and subject to potential updates annually, they are just as dynamic as articles such as Canada and Bulgaria which consist of sections that require updates frequently too and nonetheless are eligible for and receive quality assessments (see here for the longer version of this discussion).


 * Hopefully I did a good job explaining the issue above but feel free to leave comments below or modify my response if I left anything out. Cheers, Dan the Animator 02:29, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, just to clarify: this discussion is not about whether the lead of the article February 8 should be expanded or exempt. This discussion is intended to find an outcome that applies to most if not all of the 366 DOY articles (including but not limited to February 8). Cheers, Dan the Animator 02:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Per the Wikiproject guidelines though, consensus in required to create any changes to any of the DOY articles that go against the Wikiproject sample. – This is WikiProject WP:OWNERSHIP, and those enforcing it can be sanctioned if they continue after being warned. Thebiguglyalien  ( talk ) 21:15, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Dantheanimator, to expand on what Thebiguglyalien said, WikiProject Council/Guide (an actual guideline) says that a WikiProject can't demand that "their" articles follow "their" rules, especially in contravention of the community's normal rules.
 * While IMO a group of editors working on a given subject area often have very good advice about that subject area, the guideline says "An advice page written by several participants of a project is a "local consensus" that is no more binding on editors than material written by any single individual editor. Any advice page that has not been formally approved by the community through the WP:PROPOSAL process has the actual status of an optional essay." In other words, neither you nor anybody else is actually required to care what WikiProject Days of the year says.  You do not need any additional permission from anyone to write a lead that complies with MOS:LEAD or any other policies and guidelines; you are already permitted to do so.
 * That said, because of the subject matter, it might be difficult to write a lead that is much longer than this. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, this explanation is... much better than mine. Thebiguglyalien  ( talk ) 06:44, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've had 14 years to practice this particular speech since Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers/Infoboxes RfC (i.e., when the community definitively decided that self-selected individuals don't get to make up rules contradicting the usual ones just because they call themselves a WikiProject). WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the replies WhatamIdoing and Thebiguglyalien! :) My main reason for not changing the lead unilaterally before was due to a previous revert back when I made a much more tangential change during February 8's peer review per a suggestion. That said, 's revert of my edit was a bit quick and maybe slightly unwarranted but I agree with their reasoning that it would've been better in this case to open a discussion about that change considering no other DOY article uses those date templates. About making a longer lead now though, aside from the scope issue a bunch of people have already pointed out, I think it'd be generally a bad-faith edit since the apparent consensus is against it (as per the previously opened discussion specifically about February 8's lead).
 * However, if enough people here would like to see a sample of an expanded lead for February 8 (placed here for the sake of an example yk), feel free to let me know and I'll create one based on the suggestions already given here, the On This Day sources for Feb. 8, and my best judgement for what would be best for the lede from my experience editing the Feb. 8 article. Creating a lead will be difficult without a doubt but whatever helps move this discussion, and ultimately these articles, forward is ultimately for the better for everyone imo. Cheers, Dan the Animator 01:21, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The point is that if the "apparent consensus" comes from a few people in a WikiProject, then it's a tenuous consensus. Manual of Style/Lead section and other guideline pages are the consensus that should be followed. "WP:DOYSTYLE" is an overstep; you or I could write a competing essay with our own ideas, and it would be equally valid. The revert by was a WP:DRNC failure.  Thebiguglyalien  ( talk ) 01:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * True... I guess what I meant to say is that I think it's wiser to discuss these things rather than start a potential edit war. Anyone here is open to directly editing the lead on February 8 (or any of the other articles) to better meet the MOS guidelines but I think it just makes more sense to put a sample here in the RfC and discuss/edit it here where it would avoid the possibility of an edit war. That said, like WhatamIdoing mentioned above, there's genuine concerns with expanded leads and it's better to be thoughtful about it than WP:BOLD imo. Cheers, Dan the Animator 02:31, 19 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I would say the larger question is: Should all articles/lists be able to eventually reach featured status? And I would argue the answer is no; some topics are ill-suited to meet FA/FL criteria. There are several reasons this could be. Perhaps there are enough sources to prove notability and write a solid encyclopedic article, but not enough to cover the topic at the level of detail FAs should have. (See the FAC for "Loss" (comic) as an example.) Or maybe the article is a disambiguation page, or a list of lists, that is useful for navigation but not as content. Now, I'm not saying DOY articles clearly fall in one of these categories – I suppose they are directories in some sense, but I think they can provide enough context and detail to move beyond that. My point is that it's perfectly fine for some pages to meet different standards from FACR/FLCR in order to provide the most useful encyclopedic experience for readers. So I would support a third option not provided: do nothing and accept the difference in criteria. RunningTiger123 (talk) 05:06, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think the scope and inclusion criteria are clear from the lead of February 8. I wouldn't exactly call it "engaging" but I'm not sure that word should be part of the FL criteria ("professional standards of writing" is more appropriate). While I initially thought there should be a longer lead, I think this is impossible given the inherently unrelated nature of each event listed. It's a synthesis issue. I might argue for lengthier leads in some cases, like December 25, where many entries will be related by a common holiday or anniversary, but not for February 8. (And by the way there's 366 days of the year: see February 29.)Given consensus is clearly in favour of these DOY articles existing, and they are lists containing encyclopedic content and not unstable on a daily basis (pun unavoidable), I believe they should be eligible for FL status. Here, it would show a textbook example of what a DOY article should look like and reward a volunteer who has significantly improved this area of the encyclopedia. — Bilorv ( talk ) 22:45, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't know what the lead should look like, but it needs to be more than a single sentence -- In actu (Guerillero)  Parlez Moi 08:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * While the lead will have to be short due to the scope of the article, I think it should at least try to summarize the major holidays/observances and most notable events/birthdates/death dates that occur[ed] on the particular date. For example, February 8 would have a summary of Prešeren Day (which would tie into his death on that date) and describe a handful of events that have long-lasting effects even if they are a bit close in time. If someone of major significance was born or died on that date, then they'd be included; the selection criteria would have to be fairly strict to keep the list short, but I'd have it a bit looser than what WP:ITNC requires for blurbs, as an example.  Sounder Bruce  08:55, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I also have an inquiry regarding who should be included in the births and deaths section. Is there any sort of criteria that would merit any person to be listed on their respective birthday/day of death? For example using February 8, would Los Angeles Rams American football player Johnny Hekker be worthy of inclusion in the births section? I mean I undestand readers in Asia or Europe may not know him, but the same thing could be said of X athlete of a different country. After all, his birthday has several credible sources. On the other hand, let's say some editor wants to add X character actor who is pretty obscure to most audiences. What would be the guideline for that since IMDb isn't necessarily a great metric. I think there should be a standard of inclusion of people mentioned under births and deaths sectioon similar to the On This Day feature except a little more looser requirements like the person has to have reliable sources confirming their date of birth or have their article not be just a stub.
 * -- Birdienest81 talk  10:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The established standard for which people are included in the births and deaths sections is that they have to have a Wikipedia article (no redlinks) and have a reliable source backing up the date. There's no metric for how obscure or not obscure they are -- it's assumed that if they have an article, they're notable enough to be listed. Aerin17 (t • c) 00:48, 16 February 2024 (UTC)


 * A relevant guideline is MOS:LEADREL: Are there available reliable sources that can help objectively determine which events, births, deaths, holidays are worthy of being called out in a lead for a given date? Or would this be more of a subjective decision by editors? Systemic bias would be a concern.—Bagumba (talk) 08:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think a few recurring events would be obvious (e.g., Christmas Day for December 25), and a few one-time events (e.g., Armistice of 11 November 1918 to mark the end of the WWI) potentially so, but overall it might be difficult. On the other hand, there are some sources (e.g., https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history, https://apnews.com/today-in-history) that could be used not only to find events for the list, but also to figure out which ones are highlighted or emphasized.  For example, @Dantheanimator might find https://apnews.com/article/today-in-history-7038e53c782274874575b6c1224a23ed useful, as it lists 16 different things that happened on February 8.  A quarter of them are very recent, so perhaps of less enduring importance, but the ones that are 50+ years old look like candidates for consideration.
 * Another thing that might be worth considering is a simple summary of where the day stands in the year meteorologically (e.g., February 8th is winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere; there's even a record or two in List of weather records for that day.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:37, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The problem with using most "on this day" websites is that they'll be skewed towards a certain audience. For instance, the Associated Press is a U.S. news service, so their "today in history" pages are heavily skewed toward U.S. history, overlooking possibly larger events. (Example: Are "Harding [having] a radio installed in the White House" and "Senate leaders [naming] seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal" really the most important events from February 8 in world history?) It might be possible to find different websites serving different audiences and combine their OTD articles, but then we're right back to the same concerns about bias and synthesis. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:14, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think that excluding things that don't appear in multiple such lists is perfectly reasonable. If most of them mention "In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded" or "In 1971, NASDAQ, the world’s first electronic stock exchange, held its first trading day", then that would probably be worth highlighting. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:44, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * At least sysnthesis would be somewhat addressed if items in the lead were sourced to a a curated "on this day" list. Bias can be mitigated by making the source selection more diverse. —Bagumba (talk) 08:59, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think the meteorological idea would work great but I'm skeptical using various On this day (OTD) sources would be a truly viable solution. I mean, yes, they are a great starting point, but the majority of those sources have varying degrees of bias towards Western history and culture imo (at least of the ones linked above and the few others I've come across). Not to say there isn't a way to use these sources as per above but without more globally representative OTD sources, it feels like a no-go to me. Dan the Animator 01:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think that using these sources might result in a more global summary than if an editor merely looks down the list and says "Well, here are the things that I think were interesting or important".
 * For example, just looking down the list, I'd probably pick these as my first candidates:
 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 * 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
 * 1865 – Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, delaying the criminalization of slavery
 * 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes the adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
 * 1887 – The Dawes Act is enacted, authorizing the U.S. President to divide Native American tribal land into individual allotments.
 * 1904 – Japanese forces launch a surprise attack against Russian-controlled Port Arthur, marking the start of the Russo-Japanese war.
 * 1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
 * 1946 – The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North and replaced by the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
 * 1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
 * But looking at the external sources might help me confirm or reject some of my first guesses.
 * There were also three significant transportation disasters (1986 Hinton train collision in Canada, 1989 Independent Air Flight 1851 crash in the Azores, 1993 Tehran mid-air collision), so if that's an unusual coincidence, then a sentence like "There were also several unrelated transportation disasters on this date in the late 20th century" might work.
 * Also, it occurs to me that people are sometimes looking at these dates because they are looking for milestone anniversaries. So if we think of this as "helping people find what interests them" (instead of "trying to tell them what's important"), then we might point out that the next February 8th will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001), the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892), and the 300th anniversary of the death of Peter the Great, Russian emperor.  This would mean updating the lead every year, but it has a certain amount of inherent even–Steven fairness, too, as every item in the list would eventually rotate through.  (On average, 1% of the list would appear each year, so typically three or four items.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I wonder if singling out major anniversaries is unencyclopedic in some way (e.g., we'd knowingly be writing an article that will go out of date, and not due to new information becoming available), but I can't find any clear guidance. The best I could find was at As of, which says: In general, editors should avoid using statements that will date quickly. RunningTiger123 (talk) 00:15, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It's not normally relevant to an article, but I don't think it's inherently inappropriate. Also, Five pillars says "Wikipedia combines many features of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers", and noting anniversaries is a feature of almanacs. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:50, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Template:Show by date or Template:Hide until templates would be useful; you could specify the 2025 and 2026 anniversaries in advance, and have them displayed or hidden as needed. Then you don't have to set an alarm clock to update the text at the perfect moment.  Before February 8th, it could display only the upcoming 2025 dates; on the 8th, it could display 2025 and 2026; the next day, it could display only the 2026 dates – and then you'd have nearly a year before it needed to be updated (blanking the hidden 2025 anniversaries, moving the 2026 dates into the first slot, and setting up the hidden 2027 dates). WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:55, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think your points make sense but I'd be a bit worried over whether having the lead cycle through the content would make the article be considered "perpetually dynamic" to the extent it's not eligible for FL status. Thinking about it more, while the templates would work great, it might be also possible to create a program that skims through the article each year and copies those events/births/deaths that have notable anniversaries (10th, 20th, 30th...100th, etc.) and add those in the lead. There would still be the question of which anniversaries would count as "notable" and how to space them (e.g. by 10s or 20s or only 100s?) but I think that wouldn't be too difficult to resolve.
 * Another option is just to have the lead parrot whatever WP:OTD has for that article for that year, although in my understanding, most days' OTD selections don't really change from year to year and they're very limited in terms of coverage. When I first considered expanding the DOY leads, I thought about structuring it thematically (politics, society, economics, etc.) similar to how the year articles do it (2001 for example) but that might be more difficult here since events within a single year inherently have more in common then events across centuries. Curious to see what other editors think though and thanks for the very comprehensive reply WhatamIdoing! (by the way, sorry to nitpick on this but for the significant transportation disasters you listed above, there were a few others on Feb. 8 (e.g. Eastern Air Lines Flight 663)). Dan the Animator 21:45, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * (Remind me never to schedule a flight on February 8th!) WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Alright, joining late here, sorry if I repeat something, but I agree with the statement that the doy project does not own the articles, and you can and should improve them to FA status if you like. Although they may have good reason for their views and it might be valuable to listen to them. Cheers, Geardona (talk to me?) 12:22, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think very short leads are preferred for day articles on a practical basis if nothing else. Trying to figure out the "most important" things to highlight in the lead seems fraught with peril and an invitation to bad feelings and edit warring.  Best to keep that in the article.  It's okay that there isn't an overall "story" to tell about a day, because...   it's just a day.  There isn't a unifying story to tell in the first place.  You can't say "February X is a day marked by tragedy" or "February X is an inspiring day, as proven by the following events".  SnowFire (talk) 15:16, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't want to say that a day is marked by tragedy or inspiration, but December 25 probably should say that it's celebrated as Christmas Day in most of the world, just like the lead for January 1 says it's New Year's Day. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:07, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't object about December 25 mentioning that it's Christmas in the lede, but that still doesn't get remotely close to the usual lede sizes of other lists, so there may need to be an explicit carve-out that day leads should only include overwhelmingly obvious holidays and such. SnowFire (talk) 23:58, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The typical lead for an FA has 250 to 400 words in it. The boilerplate lead for DOY articles is 27 words exactly.  I think that we could achieve something in between.
 * We could double the length by adding something like "On this day, in 421 CE, Constantius III came co-emporer of the Western Roman Empire, Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587" and triple it by adding modern information like "the Japanese attacked Russia in 1904 and Singapore in 1942, and in 1946, North Korea officially became a communist state. In 1971, the world's first all-electronic stock market opened on this date."
 * If we add another sentence about the weather – "In the northern hemisphere, February 8th falls in the winter, and in the southern hemisphere, it is summer" – and a few anniversaries – "In 2025, February 8th will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001), the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892), and the 300th anniversary of the death of Peter the Great, Russian emperor" – then I think we'd be in a fair way towards a lead that summarizes the article, even if it's half the length of what you'd find in FAs. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:05, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And I think that those additions are exactly the kind of thing that would make for lots of trouble for no reason. Why highlight someone like Bates?  If highlighted at all, why highlight their birth rather than some actually important event in their lives?  Was Peter the Great's death date significant?  etc.  That kind of stuff is okay for the body but has major WP:UNDUE problems in the lede.  January 1 being New Year's Day is a really core thing to the date; January 1 being the Xth anniversary of obscure historical figure Y's birth is not (and once the floodgates open, would be an invitation to cram essentially the entire article in the lede, because good luck deciding the relative merits of events that happened on a day).  SnowFire (talk) 02:15, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Why highlight Bates? Because it's a big round-number anniversary, and big round-number anniversaries are what some readers are looking for.  That makes it a WP:PROPORTION issue, rather than a viewpoints-based ("DUE") issue.  Reliable sources highlight big round-number anniversaries; therefore, we should, too.
 * Obviously, the following year, it wouldn't be the 100th anniversary of Bates' birth, so he would get removed, and someone else would get highlighted. Over the course of 100 years, everything in the list – but only, on average, 1% at a time – would have a fair shot at being mentioned. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:48, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Since you mention PROPORTION, I'll note that the final line is: This is a concern especially for recent events that may be in the news. In other words, the policy here seems to specifically push against weighing current coverage more heavily. I agree that reliable sources cover round-number anniversaries, but it is important to focus on the entire body of what has been written, which would cover anniversaries from every year. RunningTiger123 (talk) 19:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 100-year-old events are hardly recent events, though. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:51, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Correct, but we wouldn't be placing items in the lead based on the coverage they received 100 years ago, we'd be placing them there based on coverage/interest surrounding the 100th anniversary, which would be a recent event. RunningTiger123 (talk) 03:58, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * WP:Recentism (you linked to it; have you read it?) recommends that editors "aim toward a long-term, historical view". Modern sources noting the hundredth anniversary of an event is practically definition of "a long-term, historical view".
 * The lead of that essay links twice to Reliable sources, which is not relevant for anniversaries. "Breaking news" for a death is what you get on the day of the death; it is not what you get a hundred years later.
 * The Recentism section suggests that editors use "the ten-year test or twenty-year test" (emphasis in the original); I am proposing here a "hundred-year test" – far exceeding the standards of that essay. WhatamIdoing (talk) 08:03, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've read through WP:Recentism (the link was carried over when I copied the text), and I think our differences hinge on what "long-term" means. To me, while the lead would discuss long-term events (i.e., events from years ago), it would not be written for a long-term view because it would go out of date quickly. The ten- or twenty-year test says articles should be written for the long term, at least when I read it. (In ten or twenty years will this addition still appear relevant? If the lead targets a specific year, then no.) That's what I was trying to explain by saying recent anniversaries would be current coverage and a long-term view would have to cover every year, though my word choice could have been clearer there. RunningTiger123 (talk) 17:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree that adding a rotating selection of anniversary events would require annual updates to the lead.
 * Can you agree that some readers are likely to be looking for exactly that information? WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:20, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree that some readers may want that, but I think it is best suited for On This Day on the main page. RunningTiger123 (talk) 12:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * On this day is on the talk page for that article. I wonder if it should routinely be displayed in the article instead. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:30, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * (de-indent) I disagree on even attempting to highlight big round numbers, which require maintenance and essentially a total changeover on Wikipedia, and also are weird for mirrors / reusers who have slightly older ledes. That kind of stuff is fine for the On This Day template which goes on the magazine-ier front page, but not for the article itself on February 25 or whatever, which should be a little more timeless.  Even if we did loosen up our style guideline, we still have DUE concerns - again, once one person is included, it is difficult to distinguish between any of them.  Or what counts as a strong link to the day or not - I'd say a birthday is an exceptionally weak link to the day, for example, and if there's a focus to be had it's on events closely tied to this day.  But we can just skip that unfruitful discussion by agreeing to have it all in the body instead.  SnowFire (talk) 05:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * We should probably clarify that list articles that consist of lists of un-like things, and which are set-index articles that exist simply to provide a place to list things with similar names/designations or other qualities, and for which no richly summarative, detailed lead can sensibly be written, does not need such a lead, just a short one that makes clear what the scope of the content is. This is a pretty obvious WP:COMMONSENSE matter, and I'm actually surprised that the featured-list review people didn't immediately intuit that. The February 8 article this discussion started about already complies with the principle I just outlined, and is probably all the lead it needs, though a bit of expasion (perhaps noting the total time-period range of the entire article, and a few other tidbits) wouldn't be out of the qusetion. However, writing the same kind of lead we have at a very different sort of list article, composed of entries that are deeply thematically and historically related, e.g. List of political parties in the United Kingdom, is stark-obviously not possible for an article like February 8.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Lists of lists
Do we have any lists of lists at FL. Are they eligible for FL? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk)  @ 15:23, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Don't think we have any; closest is Outline of lichens. There's nothing against it in the rules, though it's likely to be difficult to have one that's not just an index of wikipedia articles but actually a subject that itself passes NLIST. -- Pres N  17:01, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Please archive Featured list candidates/List of general elections in Botswana/archive1
The nominator wishes to close the nomination. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Ignore this. It looks like they their mind. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Third Nom
I have two lists at WP:FLC that have substantial support for promotion: Featured list candidates/Green Bay Packers draft picks (1936–1969)/archive1 with 4 supports including a source review and Featured list candidates/Green Bay Packers draft picks (1970–present)/archive1 with 3 supports including a source review and one other comment addressed. Any issue with me putting up a third nom? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I think we want to keep it capped at 2 per nom for now, though I'd expect your oldest nom to be promoted in a few days anyway. -- Pres N  15:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thanks! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk)  @ 15:54, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * , any chance you could take a look at them again? Both have substantial support and no recent activity. I would appreciate it! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk)  @ 17:42, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Promoted them both, actually! -- Pres N  18:36, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

List of Boston Bruins seasons not appearing?
It's been nominated, but it seems to not be listed on the FLC page. The  Kip  (contribs) 00:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @The Kip: You need to manually transclude the nomination page you created to WP:FLC. Hey man im josh (talk) 00:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Adding a new FLC delegate
Hi everyone; traditionally, the FLC process has had at least three people running it, but for the last 2 years it's been just me and. In order to spread the load out a bit and keep the process from relying so much on individual editors, we are proposing to add as a Featured List delegate. Over the past year or so they have been extremely active as a nominator and reviewer, and have been visible helping out other editors with the process both here and on the WP:Discord server (as well as having a successful RfA), so we think they would make a good delegate. Before we make it official, in order to be transparent we wanted to post the proposal here for feedback. -- Pres N  17:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * If the community is in support of me stepping up to help out as a delegate I will do my best to always be improving and learning, as I do now, and to take any criticism and advice I'm given. I appreciate any feedback anyone may have directed at me. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:12, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support: I've seen 's edits for sometime now, and he'll make a great FLC delegate; Good Luck wishes! Vestrian24Bio ( TALK  ) 17:35, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support josh is an incredibly active FLC creator and contributor. I think making him a delegate is a good idea. B3251 (talk) 17:41, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. Josh is one of the most prolific featured list contributors of the past year or so, he has a courteous and cordial demeanor, and he has done a lot to help new nominators acclimate to the FLC process. He's a shoo-in imo. Dylan 620  (he/him • talk • edits) 21:12, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support: More than happy to extend my support to Josh! He'll make a fine FLC delegate. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 21:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support – A perfect fit! –  Aza24  (talk)   21:53, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * We love to see it!--NØ 00:28, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support – Josh's tireless work at FLC has helped with many lists since his involvement at FLC began, and I'm confident he has what it takes to handle delegate duties. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 00:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Like those above, I Support this! I have seen nothing but great work and care from Josh's contributions to this site and particularly in these FLCs. He would be a perfect fit to help tackle this process! Trailblazer101 (talk) 03:18, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Support an active reviewer and nominator. Should help the current delegates balance out their workload. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:38, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support – don't think any elaboration is needed at this point. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. I honestly thought he was an admin here already. Bgsu98   (Talk)  02:25, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support – Not much else I can add that hasn't been said already. Josh has been prolific, courteous and helpful; he is the perfect candidate to be a delegate. Sgubaldo (talk) 13:57, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support – Consistently active and would fit great as a delegate.  Sounder Bruce  17:21, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Alright, with no objections raise and discussion concluded, I'd like to welcome on as our newest Featured List delegate! They're now authorized to close nominations, and can be summoned along with Giants and myself with the @FLC template. If, now or in the future, anyone else is interested in becoming a delegate, feel free to reach out to any of us for consideration. -- Pres N  14:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)