Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Drexel University alumni/archive1

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 or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

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List of Drexel University alumni[edit]

I've been working to improve this list and I think it meets featured list criteria so I'm nominating it. --ImmortalGoddezz 19:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Although it looks like it meets criteria comments would be appreciated in regards to the redlinks (keep them or unlink them?), placement of the photos (I'm not sure it could be any better but please leave suggestions), and the very few blank attendance years for some of the alumni (leave them blank, fill in with "unknown", or something else?). Any other comments would be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks. --ImmortalGoddezz 20:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Having all the tables the same width and having the comparable columns in all the tables the same width would make the article look much better. Right now, it has a lumpy appearance. Hmains (talk) 04:13, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I think I've figured out how to fix that while still using the Alum template. ~~I will do that tonight after I get back from classes.~~ Thanks for the comment! --ImmortalGoddezz 15:11, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All the columns should be the same size now.

Done --ImmortalGoddezz 15:44, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - The list looks pretty nice, but I have some concerns:

- The article mentions The Drexel 100 but does not list all it's menbers. Presumably these members are the most notable graduates of Drexel.

- The very recent grads Tom Fulp and John Gruber don't seem to be very notable.

-- Austin Murphy (talk) 20:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the late reply I've had unexpected internet problems at home

The Drexel 100 includes the most notable graduates as of it's creation (1991) and subsequent initiation dates who are living. The list isn't retroactive so it doesn't include a lot of people. I realize I didn't clarify that in the article, I will do so today. As far as not including all of the Drexel 100: Drexel's ideas of notability are different than wikipedia's notability guidelines, most of the people on the list would be NN and never have their own article. A lot of the Drexel 100 initiates are people who have coincidently donated a considerable amount money to the university. (ex. Robert R. Buckley (Buckley Field), Richard A. Greenawalt (Greenawalt Student Development Center), Antoinette Westphal (Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design), John A. Daskalakis (Daskalakis Athletic Center), Albert Handschumacher (Handschumacher Dining Center), Samuel J. Korman (Korman Center), etc. ) However I will work on adding the Drexel 100 to this list.

OK. It *would* be interesting to know who the buildings were named after though. Of course the list is a bunch of people who could potentially give a bucket load of money to Drexel or at least some academic street cred. That probably makes them at least a little bit notable. Maybe they don't need links to their names, but just a little description about how they got their name on a building.

I will take Fulp out, I didn't realize it was a redirect. As far as Gruber he does currently have an article which presumably means he's notable at this point, if his article ever goes to AfD then I won't object to taking him out. My concerns about notability would lay with Ray Sahelian before anybody else.

--ImmortalGoddezz 16:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fiddled with the photos a bit. I think the result is a better flow along the right side. More photos would be better of course, but I'm sure you tried to find them too.

I'm against red-links, but that's just my opinion.

If the class year box is blank, a note somewhere should explain why. For example, "attended 1994-95, did not graduate" or "unknown"

-- Austin Murphy (talk) 21:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment It's a good list, but I think some of the red-links should be filled out, with stub articles at least. Geraldk (talk) 16:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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