Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of islets of Caroline Island/archive1

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The list was not promoted 15:22, 26 April 2008.

List of islets of Caroline Island

User:Viriditas recently suggested that I nominate this as a featured list; it was created in support of Caroline Island, which has been a featured article since 2006. -- Sethant (talk) 20:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Gary King (talk · contribs)

Comment What's with the strange background colors? Gary King (talk) 20:50, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia often uses background colors to create contrast and enhance readability (see the top of this page, for instance), and that's what has been done with this list. -- Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - List of Presidents of the United States makes a great use of background colors. For this list, I assumed that colors were related (i.e. one color indiciated something) but from your reply, it seems like that is not the case. I think that would decrease readability rather than increase it. At the very least, I would suggest to use a lighter color. Some off the top of my head are #eef and #fee, which I believe are light and 'warm' colors.
  - I would also consider adding headers to the last two columns that don't have one.
  - Left-align the second last column with the large paragraphs. Gary King (talk) 21:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from - MILK'S FAVORITE COOKIE ^(Talk)

The article currently has no citations.
- The full list of references are given at the bottom of the article. -- Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The lead title needs to be bolded and the links should be removed per WP:LEAD
- The closest thing to the article title in the lead was already bolded. I see nothing in WP:LEAD that prohibits links with the lead section; in fact, most Wikipedia articles and list contain links within the lead. - Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - They shouldn't contain links in the bold part of the lead. That's what the WP:MOS says, specifically at WP:LEAD#Bold title. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Some/All of the images should have captions. What is the lead image?
- All of the images have explanatory captions or headers. - Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- MILK'S FAVORITE COOKIE ^(Talk) 21:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)

I'd prefer to see the title of the list in the lead, bolded, rather than the current opening.
Image caption for lead is a fragment so lose the full stop. And check all other images.
Link islet somewhere.
None of the lead is cited, for example the claim of 39 islets. Can this be proved?
"the most distinguishing feature of each islet" - according to whom?
"speak to prior human habitation," - perhaps my BritEng is the problem here, but I guess we'd say "prove" or "hint to", definitely not "speak to".
Convert the areas from hectares to acres (or square miles, whatever) so the Imperial-ists can understand.
18m, 14m , these should be converted to Imperial too.
" only abour 300 m " - typo, use the convert template.
Motu links to a dab page.
Why the occasional link to 10^4, 10^5 etc for the areas?
Why is the table multi-coloured? Does it mean something?
Some of the entries appear left-aligned, some are centrally aligned, it should be consistent.

I have to oppose at the moment, it's a confusing list, it has a few MOS issues as above. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Very confusing, no in-line citations, MoS issues, odd table, etc. Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 18:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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