Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Pomona College people/archive1

List of Pomona College people

I have recently added a bunch of citations to this article and improved the formatting, with an eye toward getting it up to Featured List status (my first one!). I modeled a bit off of FL List of Dartmouth College alumni and other featured college list pages where appropriate. To find missing entries, I went through all alumni mentioned on the Pomona College official timeline and used PetScan to find about 150 new candidates (most of which aren't quite as notable as the people already listed) and try to make sure there aren't any major holes. There are a few remaining missing/uncited facts, such as the exact dates of attendance of Christine Fan, that I've tagged, but I've searched for all of them, and they all seem to be in the "not available from a reliable source anywhere on the internet" category. There are also some redlinked names, all of which I believe to be notable (and have provided references to establish that).

I would appreciate advice on anything I ought to improve before submitting the page as a Featured List candidate. Thanks in advance for your feedback! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:32, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

I spend a lot of time around FLC so hopefully I should be able to help out...

• Based on the other FL college people lists a line in the first paragraph about the notability of the school or about the structure of the school might be helpful. A line about how many students are in the average class is also included in these other FL lists
• As far as the "citation needed" and "specify" stuff I doubt this will go over well at FLC. For some of them you may be able to search for specifics on google with something like: "Doug McConnell" "Pomona" "1967" (make sure the quotations are separate for each value), but otherwise I would strongly recommend adding a note that says "exact year unknown"/"year unknown" or something.
• Besides this I think you're good to go for FLC, the list is well formatted and researched, I do hope you end up taking it there! Aza24 (talk) 03:36, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@Aza24: Thanks; that's super helpful! I went through all the tags again and actually managed to sleuth out a reference for McConnell, but for some of the remaining ones, I've tried Googling like that and there's just nothing, so I went with your suggestion and made them a footnote. For Richard Fairbank, I had to remove the entry, but I copied it to the talk page and perhaps a reference will go online allowing it to come back someday.

Regarding the first point, the structure of Pomona is much simpler since it's a liberal arts college rather than a university, and thus everyone is for an undergraduate degree, so there's not the need as there is at the Dartmouth page to specify the school. For class size, that hopefully flows from the student body size. My general philosophy of lists is to keep the intro pretty short, sending readers to non-list pages if they want details, but I can certainly draw from Pomona College to expand it if needed.

I'll send the page to FLC shortly; thanks again! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:48, 19 September 2020 (UTC)