Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of birds of Egypt

List of birds of Egypt

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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 12 days, 4 support, 0 oppose. Promote. Scorpion⁰⁴²² 01:41, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Several other lists of similar quality, such as List of birds of Cuba, among others, are featured, and I feel that this list meets the criteria too. Yomangani used a script in late June, if I remember correctly, to formulate a large number of bird lists, but I have touched this one up, added more references, added images, and expanded the lead to get it up to scratch. Thanks for your comments. Cheers, -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 23:07, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Leaning towards support: The list looks fine. Still, one of my concerns is that it does not mention anything about the endemic species of birds, which it should. The other thing is that I am not too comfortable with the size and positioning of images as it is in the current FLC, List of birds of Thailand. The images are (very) ununiform in size and they collide with the section separator lines in alomst entire list, creating large gaps between the section heading and start of the text under the heading, and making it look less beautiful as it could have been otherwise. Though this is not as much a worry, yet any effort in this direction will be appreciated. I will support it once my concerns are addressed. DSachan (talk) 00:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- About the images: I have tidied some especially bad cases, but I think that it is not such a bad thing. I have tried to make it interesting in structure, so that there is usually at least one image to look at on the sidelines while looking at the list. I'll see what others say. And about marking endemic species: there are no birds endemic to Egypt. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 02:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Nice list. But I have a suggestion. As I checked other FLs I noticed that most of them had as a lead image a significant bird instead of a map. I propose to add an image of a Sacred Ibis stating in the caption that it was venered in Ancient Egypt or something like that. CG (talk) 11:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, I am aware that the other FLs use a bird, and I would have done the same, but you'll notice that its not just a random bird in those FLs - its the coutnry in question's national bird. Egypt does not have a national bird, and the sacred ibis was just one bird, let alone animal, worshiped in ancient Egypt, and is not any kind of official representation of Egyptian birdlife in any way. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 11:49, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - It does not have to be an "official" bird, just a significant bird in the Egyptian history or culture. CG (talk) 12:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Changed as requested. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - Thank you. Just want to add a comment about how the images look a bit akward due do different sizes and shapes. CG (talk) 16:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support a well done list Hmains (talk) 06:26, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks pretty well done. Circeus (talk) 18:49, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]