Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Michigan State University people
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List of Michigan State University people[edit]
- 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: 13 days, 1 support, 0 oppose. No consensus to promote. Fail. Juhachi 10:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Self-nom. I have worked hard over the last few weeks to get this list up to FL standards. Please let me know what you think. Lovelac7 19:47, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I fixed a little thing in the lead. Why was the TOC in a div? I tried {{TOCright}}, as it would save a lot of room, but it sticks down into the first two tables. Perhaps a TOC like that at List of Cuban birds would work better here? Good work thus far. --Phoenix (talk) 20:02, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose - This list isn't comprehensive enough. all these people should be in the football section alone. all these people should be in the basketball section. Other sports sections probably suffer the same problem. The faculty section looks far too small for a major university, I can tell that the coaches section is not comprehensive enough. All past football and basketball head coaches should be listed, for starters. I'll review further once this has been addressed. VegaDark 06:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm sorry, VegaDark, but your list of Spartans in the NFL alone has 240 people on it. Though I'd love to see all of that listed and sourced on Wikipedia one day, I am just one man. I will however, beef up the faculty and coaching lists. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions. Lovelac7 06:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That really isn't an excuse. The comprehensiveness portion of the criteria isn't at the convenience of the major editor of an article. I am developing a list of New England Patriots players. All of them. I have gotten the offense done, and it amounts to several hundred players. It took about a week. If you want this listed as an FA, put in the work...--Jayron32|talk|contribs 01:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have put in the work, but it takes a while to source every name. There are approximately 400,000 living MSU alumni in the world — so no — I can't list all of them. I based the format of this list on List of HIV-positive people, which currently lists around 250 people. It passed FLC with strong support, even though there have been at least 65 million people in this world with HIV/AIDS. I am ready, willing, and able to put in a reasonable amount of work, buy when it comes to gaining FT status, I prefer quality to quantity. Lovelac7 02:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Nobody is asking you to list all the alumni, only the notable ones. Wikipedia notability guidlines say that all athletes that reach the professional level are notable enough to have a page of their own, and should certainly be included on this list. All All-Americans have been agreed to be notable enough for their own page as well, although I won't require you to go that far in order to have my support. VegaDark 03:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have put in the work, but it takes a while to source every name. There are approximately 400,000 living MSU alumni in the world — so no — I can't list all of them. I based the format of this list on List of HIV-positive people, which currently lists around 250 people. It passed FLC with strong support, even though there have been at least 65 million people in this world with HIV/AIDS. I am ready, willing, and able to put in a reasonable amount of work, buy when it comes to gaining FT status, I prefer quality to quantity. Lovelac7 02:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That really isn't an excuse. The comprehensiveness portion of the criteria isn't at the convenience of the major editor of an article. I am developing a list of New England Patriots players. All of them. I have gotten the offense done, and it amounts to several hundred players. It took about a week. If you want this listed as an FA, put in the work...--Jayron32|talk|contribs 01:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm sorry, VegaDark, but your list of Spartans in the NFL alone has 240 people on it. Though I'd love to see all of that listed and sourced on Wikipedia one day, I am just one man. I will however, beef up the faculty and coaching lists. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions. Lovelac7 06:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]