Wikipedia:Featured and good topic removal candidates/Lists of universities in Canada/archive1

Lists of universities in Canada

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Someone had to do it. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]]_{call me Keith} 23:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well OK, what's happened here is that the 5 sublists have been demoted, and will be shortly merged into the main list. Obviously, that leads the topic to implode, so it needs removing - rst20xx (talk) 23:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All the sub-lists are now redirects to the main list, I notice. Bencherlite ^Talk 20:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delist - no longer satisfy the criteria—Chris! _ct 23:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delist, Rambo's Revenge (ER) 23:16, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delist, but why is this down as a "good topic" for delisting? It was a featured topic - see December 2008 log for FTs compared to the log for GTs. Bencherlite^Talk 07:56, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I shared your confusion. See this. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 11:21, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps it's because the talk page says that it's a Good topic, albeit one that's fully featured. I can't spot the bug, though... Bencherlite ^Talk 20:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I could be way off, but I don't think it's a bug. I believe that the articles in each topic are counted through {{FeaturedTopicSum}} and the template automatically determines if it should be a GT or FT. In this case, the delistings caused the topic to no longer have the required percentage of featured content for FT, and thus be automatically downgraded to a GT. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 21:58, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That would make sense! Bencherlite ^Talk 22:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK guys, there is a bug here, let me clarify what's been going on. We have two seperate things being discussed.

With regards to FT vs GT: featured topics require 2 featured items and at least 33% featured. This topic no longer meets either of these requirements, so yeah, it automatically got downgraded to GT when all the articles dropped off. This was done through {{FeaturedTopicSum}}, like Rambo's Revenge said.

With regards to the fully featured star appearing: this topic is still, paradoxically, a fully featured topic, in the sense that every article that isn't audited or under retention, is featured! ... and when I wrote the system, I said the star would appear if that condition was met. I didn't think about the 33%/2 articles minimum rules needing to be met too. So this is a bug - I think for a topic to be fully featured, it should at least be featured :P and so I've now changed the templates to reflect this. And so bye bye star - rst20xx (talk) 01:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Although the talk page still says (my emphasis) "This page serves as a project discussion for the Good topic, Lists of universities in Canada. Every article in this topic is featured if possible." (!) Bencherlite ^Talk 01:13, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ack missed that. Fixed. Well, I fixed it so it doesn't say it for good topics anyway. It might still say it for featured topics with articles under retention but I think this was a policy decision some time back (based on the logic that retention is temporary, and also that the system can't distinguish between audited and retained articles) so I'm not going to change this - rst20xx (talk) 01:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delist No longer meets the criteria, and most of these lists won't even exist anymore. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:38, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Obvious. Z gin der 2009-04-19T19:26Z (UTC)
Delist. Unfortunate, but necessary, and i do think the combined list will be better for readers.Yob Mod 09:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delist —Terrence and Phillip 07:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Close with consensus to delist - rst20xx (talk) 21:49, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]