Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists/Archive 5

List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions/ List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations
Please consider adding

MDS = misce, da, signa (mix, give and sign)

Kind Regards, Karl-Stephan Neufeldt (Statistical Programmer karl-stephan.neufeldt@ucb.com) 195.206.74.130 (talk) 08:03, 29 January 2011 (UTC)


 * This should be brought up on article's discussion page, not here. I've ported the conversation. Dkriegls (talk) 17:31, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (embedded lists)
Discussion started on developing the Embedded lists guideline.  SilkTork  *YES! 18:26, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Human longevity lists
Hi. During a recent ArbCom case, Wikiproject World's Oldest People (WP:WOP) was urged to seek advice from other relevant Wikiprojects about encyclopedic editing. Now, many of the articles in that project are lists. And they could benefit from much attention, now that ArbCom have made a ruling to cut out the previous bad behaviour, and set up enforcement procedures. I have little to no experience with list articles, and wonder if one or more experienced editors here could lend a hand to give advice. In particular, can we cut the number of lists down, and cut out duplication? How do we best break up potentially very long dynamic lists? Any help would be much appreciated. Itsmejudith (talk) 17:56, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

List of caves
I can't find what to do in policy. I'm working on making { { main } } redlinks into list articles. Should I remove the items from list of caves leaving behind only the main, or what? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Horizontal lists in navboxes
Many thousands of Wikipedia articles have navboxes, in which lists of links are presented, horizontally, without using list mark-up, but instead using or suchlike as a kludge. This is semantically poor and has implications for accessibility.

I created Flatlist in an attempt to begin addressing this, but previous discussion (two-and-a-half years ago) petered out before various concerns were resolved. Now that CSS an browsers have moved on, I'd like us to find a solution. Please contribute to centralised discussion on MoS (accessibility). Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Need advice: List of schools in Namibia
Hi, I am not experienced with lists and need advice. I try to develop List of schools in Namibia. Up to now, the collection there is somewhat haphazard but with the 13 references to the Association of Regional Councils in the Republic of Namibia every entry is verifiable. I have the following questions: Thanks in advance --Pgallert (talk) 10:04, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Assuming all schools are entered (around 1500), would it be sufficient to divide the list into thirteen articles for each of the Regions of Namibia? The Regions contain between 20 and 250 schools each.
 * 2) Should the list contain both inherently non-notable (primary and pre-primary) and inherently notable (junior secondary and higher) schools? I read that for a stand-alone list, either all entries have articles or all entries fail to reach the notability threshold -- Would it not in this case make sense to combine them?


 * There is precedent for building hierarchical list pages for primary schools with each state getting it's own page. See the List of schools in the United States. However, the Namibia population is highly clustered around a few places, so I don't know that each region could justify it's own list page. Half have less the 100,000 residents. I think it can be done all on one page. California for instance has well over 1500 schools listed all on one page, dividing the list based on county. I think Namibia could follow a similar layout with Topic divisions for each region. As for mixed links, of schools with and without pages, it's been my experience that school lists are universally an exception to the rule you mentioned. However, I for one think the red links look bad and you should just leave non-linked schools in the black typeset. Make sure you add the appropriate reverence to every single black listed school though, even if it's a string of hyphenated (1)'s all the way down the list. Hope this helps Dkriegls (talk) 20:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah, there we run into each other again... Wikipedia indeed is a village :) Thanks for the advice, Daniel. For the case of Namibia, I would rather keep the non-primary schools redlinked for now because of School and university projects/Polytechnic of Namibia which is running twice this year--students are desperately looking for articles to create, and I don't have sufficient time to cover all notability policies but tell them to look out for redlinks. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 08:36, 6 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Great, if it's an active project I can support using red links for guidance and direction. Dkriegls (talk) 15:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidacy of List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: others)
I invite comments, questions and suggestions for the featured list candidacy of List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: others). The nomination page can be found here. Thanks. bamse (talk) 10:39, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It has been listed as Nominations urgently needing reviews, meaning that it is in danger of failing because of a lack of reviews. So far it has received one "support" vote (no "oppose") while three votes is considered to be the minimum for success. Hopefully a member of this wikiproject will have time for a review. You'd need to do the following: Check this list for these criteria and leave your comments (together with a "Support"/"Oppose" vote) here. Thanks a lot! bamse (talk) 21:04, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

1-month-old FLC in need of comments
Hey all, I currently have an active FLC at Featured list candidates/List of Benet Academy alumni/archive1, and I just need a few more people to comment before it can finally be closed. I would very much appreciate your input! :) Edge3 (talk) 05:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

New page - created - Dan Savage bibliography
Newly created page, Dan Savage bibliography. Feedback and ideas for additional information and secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 06:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Dan Savage bibliography

List Peer Review - Dan Savage bibliography
This page is undergoing a List Peer Review, feel free to provide feedback, at Peer review/Dan Savage bibliography/archive1. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 19:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Dan Savage bibliography

FLC of List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Chinese books)
Hi! I nominated List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Chinese books) at featured list candidates and would be very happy if somebody could have a look at it, checking for these criteria and leaving questions/comments/suggestions and possibly a vote (support/oppose) on the nomination page. Thanks. bamse (talk) 19:54, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The article has been listed as Nominations urgently needing reviews, meaning that is in danger of failing the nomination because of a lack of reviews. Hopefully somebody will find the time to do a review of it. bamse (talk) 16:52, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Beauty pageant template conversion
I have requested that Miss Universe Organization titleholders, Big Four Pageants titleholders, Miss Earth and runners-up titleholders, Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty Titleholders, Miss Dominican Republic Organization titleholders, Carousel Production Inc. titleholders, Miss Philippines-Earth titleholders, Miss Chile Titleholders, Vanbros titleholders and Greenwood Productions titleholders all be edited so that they can be used to create single-location editable navboxes such as Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty titleholders 2009 and Big Four Pageants titleholders 2010. Now instead of going to four or five pages, you can edit in one location using the v/d/e buttons. Also, since dedicated templates now exist for each year, I have created footers that link them all. I have only done recent years for the first four templates on the list above. Others will have to do the rest.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Japanese books National Treasures
Hi! I nominated List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books) at featured list candidates and would be very happy if somebody could have a look at it, checking for these criteria and leaving questions/comments/suggestions and possibly a vote (support/oppose) on the nomination page. Thanks. bamse (talk) 10:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Great astrologers of India
GREAT ASTROLOGERS FROM MALWA (Madhya Pradesh)

Pandit Mahadev Revashankar Pathak, the great astrologer was born on 11th November 1842 in Malwa  Region (Close to modern day Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh). All his work was in Sanskrit. The great books he wrote include Jataktatva, Varsha Deepak, Patrimarg Pradipika. He passed away on on 4th February 1889. His son, Pandit Shriniwas Mahadev Pathak, was born in Ratlam on 28th February, 1872. Pandit Shriniwas Pathak was also a great astrologer, and was the Rajya Jyotishi (Court Astrologer) in the court of Maharaja Ratan Singh. (Ratlam city is named after Ratan Singh – it was earlier called Ratna-lalam and later became Ratlam). Pandit Shriniwas Pathak’s old house still stands near the old palace of Ratan Singh. Pandit Shriniwas Pathak translated many of the works of Pandit Mahadevji Pathak into Hindi. Pandit Shriniwas Pathak left for heavenly abode on 5th August 1931.

Pandit Shriniwas and Mahadev Pathak wrote following books in their lifetime : Jataktatva Bhashatika Hastapariksha (Hindi Palmistry) Dashaphal Darshan Patrimarg Varshdipak Teji Mandi Vichar Varsha Paddhati Mool Dashang Durga (Saptashati) Omkar Mahima Prakash Santati Samay Vichar Til Vichar Shani Vichar Griha Ani Grihacha Parinam Laghu Poojanushthan Paddhati Herschel athwa Prajapati Neptune Athwa Varun Pariksha Vichar Dwantrish Yogawali Tajik Vijaya Kalp Bhashatika Ashubodh Jyotish

Pandit Kantichandra Pathak, son of Shriniwas, popularized the great astrology works of his grandfather and father by publishing them in his press Shree Bhuvaneshwari Printing Press. Later in his life, Pandit Kantichandra Pathak started Shree Bhuvaneshwari Pustakalay at Ratlam. Shree Bhuvaneshwari Pustakalay is in business and now operates as bhuvaneshwari-pustakalay-ratlam.com. Harish pathak (talk) 06:44, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Animal Farm in Popular Culture
Additional opinions are requested here regarding the criteria for inclusion in a popular culture list article. Thank you for your feedback. Doniago (talk) 20:28, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

RfC: Elimination of outline articles
See Village_pump_(proposals). Ozob (talk) 22:10, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Listref
List articles often use a single source a multitude of times. This results in an unwieldy number of backlinks. I have created listref to resolve this issue. See the template documentation for further details on the issues. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 15:01, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed mass deletion of lists
Articles for deletion (four previous, six current):  Members of this wikiproject may be interested in the various "List of important publications in ..." (six topics) discussions at Articles for deletion/Log/2011 October 1. Jowa fan (talk) 00:35, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I have added an infobox listing them. RockMagnetist (talk) 04:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Many of the arguments for deleting these lists could be applied equally to many other kinds of lists, so the members of this project may have a stake in the discussion. Here is my precis of the issues:
 * 1) What are the notability criteria for lists of important publications? Can they be determined from WP:LISTN alone, along with the general requirement to cite your sources? Or do they need to incorporate criteria from Notability (books)? Or is there something else beyond these requirements?
 * 2) Can the requirements be met by such a list&mdash;at least in principle? (If they cannot, then how about other kinds of lists?)
 * 3) Do the requirements have to be met the moment the list is created, or simply stated as goals in the headers? RockMagnetist (talk) 05:07, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to change a section title
There's a proposal to adjust one of the main section titles used in "Wikipedia's contents", which will also affect the order in which the section titles are presented. See Portal talk:Contents. The Transhumanist 02:39, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Lists of countries by something / lists of something by country
I am not too sure whether there's a specific WikiProject for lists of countries or lists by countries. The problems I've encountered are that: 119.237.156.46 (talk) 17:57, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Should Gambia and Bahamas be listed as The Gambia and The Bahamas (yet still sorted under #G and #B), since the word The are part of their names?
 * 2) Should the Republic of the Congo be sorted under #C, while the Democratic Republic of the Congo be sorted under #D?
 * 3) Should the sort template be used to sort the two Koreas under #K?
 * 4) Should Greenland be sorted separately from Denmark (e.g., in the List of countries by length of coastline), and if yes, should it be listed as Greenland or Greenland (Denmark)?
 * 5) Should England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have separate listings, or have on single listings under United Kingdom, for matters unrelated to sport such as a list of power stations by country?
 * Not sure about the rest, but in the case of #1, "the" should be lowercased - see Category:Bahamas-related lists, for instance. - The Bushranger One ping only 07:10, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Meanwhile, should dependencies be ranked in a list of countries by something? 119.237.156.46 (talk) 12:10, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

List of important publications in chemistry at AfD
List of important publications in chemistry has been nominated for deletion. Discussion is at Articles for deletion/List of important publications in chemistry. --Lambiam 22:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:HighestWorldwideGrossMovies
The template HighestWorldwideGrossMovies has been nominated for deletion. Interested parties are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:22, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

List of writers in Assamese Children literature
I would like to add the name of Sajanyamayee Bhattacharjee as a known children story writer in Assam.

Name of books published are :

Runjun Nupur baajaai Baundhu Khatiyokor Jibon Mouchak Jaadukori Buri ghorot Baliram — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.245.7.8 (talk) 05:06, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Soliciting support for draft WikiProject Bibliographies
Fellow Wikipedians, I have taken the initiative, in consultation with a few others, to draft a WikiProject for Bibliographies. I hope it will be of interest to members of this project. The genesis of this effort has been a recent spate of AfD nominations of lists of publications. For the most part, the articles were not deleted, but that doesn’t mean many of them didn’t need work. A WP article entitled List of subject publications or any list of works, is by any other name, a Bibliography. Bibliographies within WP are specifically identified as a form of List in WP:List, are subject to List notability guidelines and the List Manual of Style. Unfortunately, many of the existing Bibliographies (or lists of publications) are not up to these standards. And there’s a high probability that new lists of publications or new Bibliographies won’t completely meet these standards as well, unless we as a community bring greater visibility to this genre of lists.

So the explicit goals of this draft project are to establish project-level advice for creating good bibliographies, gradually bring the existing set of bibliographies (400+) up to standard and to encourage editors to create bibliographies on topics and authors where appropriate. The goal is not to create bibliographies of everything or on everything.

I think the draft Bibliography project is logically connected to this project and members here would have a lot to contribute. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on the draft project page. If we get sufficient interest, I will move the draft into the Wikipedia space and we can press on. Also, please don’t hesitate to make suggestions on the draft here. I am sure it can be improved, will need some work to comply with Project guidelines and that it will evolve as this thing gets going. Thanks in advance for your support. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike Cline  (talk • contribs)  15:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Web scraping tool for article research (list expansion)
I want to expand a list with data that is available on governmental website (license - in public domain). It is a list of about 100 entries with reference externally linked from each row. I need to harvest text strings that are on a specific HTML-table on the linked reference pages. Could someone suggest a software tool (preferably client software, not crawler) than would be able to collect the data and export it somehow (spreadsheet, csv etc.)? Thanks! --Kozuch (talk) 08:35, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

FLC List of Israel State Cup winners
Hi everyone, There is a Featured list candidates of List of Israel State Cup winners. People with experience in WP, please have a look and apply your concerns, Support, or Oppose. Thank you. Please note: have you say before it closes with Stale nomination. – HonorTheKing (talk) 06:52, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

List of fictional people from Boston Nominated for deletion
Nominated and relisted (not enough consensus) despite the vote being nearly unanimous, I implore anyone who thinks this list should be deleted (or stay in wikipedia), please just take a few moments, click this link, and vote, thanks! Ncboy2010 (talk) 01:43, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Proposal of a Taskforce
I'm proposing a wikiproject to cover fictional lists, it would be related to WikiProject Lists, and I thought maybe some people here would be interested in the proposal, maybe with some suggestions and hopefully some people might like to help out and sign up. Ncboy2010 (talk) 15:20, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

After some thought/suggestions I've decided I would like to set up a taskforce here, under wikiproject lists, to handle and take care of Fictional lists. Does anyone here know how I could go about getting this started? Please message me here or at my talk page. Ncboy2010 (talk) 20:08, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Looking for advice on List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of climate change
I would be grateful if some people experienced in list articles but uninvolved in the climate change area would comment on the inclusion of quotes in the main body of the above article. Can they be dispensed with entirely, given that the words are to be found in the cited sources? Should they be migrated into the footnotes? Or is it best to keep them where they are? Thanks. Itsmejudith (talk) 16:39, 31 December 2011 (UTC)


 * A great many WP Lists include explanatory information along with a specific list entry. In many cases, the additional information provides additional context about the entry when evaluated against the inclusion criteria for the list.  In the case of the Scientists opposing list, I think the inclusion of specific, attributable quotations, not only provides useful context, but provides useful information for the reader as well.  A reader might say I know Joe Scientist opposes mainstream thought, but what specifically has he said relative to his peers who also oppose mainstream thought.  That is useful context and content to have in the article.  Relegating the quotes to footnotes takes the context away and doesn't serve the reader well. Also, using specific quotes provides instant defense against those who might claim that any attempt to paraphrase a position is inaccurate.  i.e. That's not what he meant or said!  IMHO, using quotes in this type of list is a plus and does not detract from the article in any way. --Mike Cline (talk) 20:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I am still a bit worried about the "That's not what he meant!" aspect, as I feel it makes our article defensive, but glad to have an opinion from someone not involved in this group of articles. Itsmejudith (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

List of acronyms and initialisms: P
The List of acronyms and initialisms: P is becoming a list of links to disambiguation pages. Secondly, I fail to see why Wikipedia should have such a list at all. But before starting an AfD, maybe you guys can explain the sense (or nonsense) of this list to me. Night of the Big Wind talk  20:16, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It's an index, and one of a series (one for each letter, no less, plus others in Category:Lists of abbreviations). "I don't get why this is here" isn't a good reason to start an AFD.  Looking at the edit history shows that these were created in 2005 and have been edited by many different editors since then.  I've dropped a note on the talk page of one of the more prolific contributors about this thread.  postdlf (talk) 06:01, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Bot task
Why don't you add the WikiProject Template to all "Talk:List of..." using a bot? emijrp (talk) 13:12, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea for anyone who's familiar with bots. Dkriegls (talk) 21:24, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

FLC List of Israel State Cup winners
Hi everyone, There is a Featured list candidates of List of Israel State Cup winners. People with experience in WP, please have a look and apply your concerns, Support, or Oppose. Thank you. Please note: have you say before it closes with Stale nomination. – HonorTheKing (talk) 06:25, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Reformating selected Emmy Awards templates
I have initiated a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television regarding reformatting EmmyAward ComedyDirector, EmmyAward DirectingDrama, EmmyAward DramaWriting and EmmyAward ComedyWriting. The intention is to make them look more like WritersGuildofAmericaEpisodicDramaScreenplay, WritersGuildofAmericaEpisodicComedyScreenplay, DirectorsGuildofAmericaOutstandingDirectingDramaSeries and DirectorsGuildofAmericaOutstandingDirectingComedySeries in hopes of encouraging editors to work on the most critically acclaimed episodes and highlight the most critically acclaimed episodes for the readers.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:54, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

List of rock formations in the United Kingdom
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of rock formations in the United Kingdom. Bejnar (talk) 22:06, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

some of the list incomplete
Hi, Since Wikipedia is a well know search engine to get all info...I feel incomplete info will cause a negative remark on ur page. The movie Khatta Meetha was one of an excellent comedy movie. I suggest you genre it to Comedy. Also Rajesh Khanna was not the only actor but there were other actors who were legends in comedy movies. Kindly update ur info. If possible google it and you will see who all the actors were etc etc. I'm sorry if I was rude.

Thanks Margaret — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.128.124 (talk) 09:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Which list are you referring to? Unless the list is autoprotected, you could edit it yourself. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:01, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

AfD: List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing has been listed for deletion because of possible copyright violations, but there is no consensus on whether copyright is violated. Anyone here have experience with that? RockMagnetist (talk) 15:32, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Featured list effort
I'd like to bring the List of people from Park Ridge, Illinois up to snuff with Featured list criteria so that we can nominate it. There is not much left to do. Anyone interesting in participating should visit the Talk page where I've outlined what needs to get done. This will be an important nomination because there hasn't been a "List of people from..." page as a featured list. So there will be some precedent set on what these articles should look like. Cheers Dkriegls (talk) 08:10, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Dan Savage bibliography for Deletion?
Dan Savage bibliography has been nominated for deletion. The discussion is at Articles for deletion/Dan Savage bibliography. Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 14:38, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Dan Savage bibliography


 * Discussion is closed. Vote was keep. Dkriegls (talk) 07:35, 19 May 2012 (UTC)