Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Drexel University alumni/archive2

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.

The list was not promoted by Dabomb87 15:25, 3 April 2010 [1].

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List of Drexel University alumni

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Nominator(s): ImGz (t/c) 16:32, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

• Featured list candidates/List of Drexel University alumni/archive1
• Featured list candidates/List of Drexel University alumni/archive2

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it now meets FL criterion after working on it for the past few months. It recently underwent a peer review and I believe all of those issues have been addressed. --ImGz (t/c) 16:32, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 09:50, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments - some quick things... "1916 Chemist Graduates" poor caption, and do you need those capital letters? Fixed and expanded the caption. "master's programs, and 32 doctoral programs." perhaps link master/doctoral to the academic relevance? Done "Certificate-earning alumni " what does this mean? This is explained in the paragraph above. Should it be moved down to that particular paragraph? Is it not clear enough as it stands currently? " Certificate-earning alumni such as artist Violet Oakley and illustrator Frank Schoonover reflect the emphasis on art as part of a vocational education. " uncited - is this original research? I'm pretty sure I pulled this from the book that I don't have on hand so I have reworded it and added a reference. "With World War II the university's technical programs swelled and as a result Drexel graduated " I'm not a comma junkie, but this needs help. "With World War II, the university's technical programs swelled and, as a result, Drexel graduated " for instance. Done Worth linking "barcode technology". Done Is this list the "Drexel 100" (plus latter additions)? Not clear. The Drexel 100 is a subset of the alumni list. Would it be better to just remove mention of the Drexel 100? Why is "Class of.." capitalised? Followed the formatting of the most recent FL List of University of Central Florida alumni, changed to lowercase. What does M.D. mean? Linked the first instance of every graduate degree. --ImGz (t/c) 06:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC) You have a kind-of key, why not make it a proper key? Could you clarify this? I'm not quite sure what you mean. A key for the degree type? The Drexel 100? Much thanks for the comments btw. --ImGz (t/c) 19:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC) Just a quick run-through.. The Rambling Man (talk) 00:59, 6 March 2010 (UTC) Comments Couldn't you just have a "were" in the caption rather than the comma? Done. Not sure about the spaced endashes in the year ranges in the references, 1891 – 1941 for instance. Check WP:DASH to make sure please. Checked and fixed. Ref 46 uses different date formats to all other refs. Be consistent throughout the refs. Done. Ref 19, 23, maybe others, have a spare period (because of the template). Think I got them all. --ImGz (t/c) 16:01, 27 March 2010 (UTC) The Rambling Man (talk) 09:50, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

• Comment Is this list identical to the Drexel 100? Maybe indicate who's on 100 and request a delete of the other list? Sandman888 (talk) 14:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

• This is the only alumni list for Drexel on wiki. The Drexel 100 is just more or less the 'hall of fame' of the alumni association. People they choose for the Drexel 100 would not all meet WP:N and the Drexel 100 is limited to living members so deleting the current list and replacing it with just Drexel 100 members would exclude most of the current alumni on the list and add a whole lot of non-notable people to it as well. I think I'm just going to remove mention of the Drexel 100 since it adds more confusion than clarification.. --ImGz (t/c) 16:23, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

• I probably should have said I will remove it rather than I probably will. I have gone ahead and removed references to the Drexel 100 since it doesn't add anything to the article other than 'oh hai, drexel has a hall of fame within the alumni association'. Hopefully this clears up some confusion.. --ImGz (t/c) 01:48, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• Quick comment – Jeff Parke, the soccer player included in the list, is apparently going to play this season for Seattle Sounders FC. The season starts tomorrow, so it's not too early to update this. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 23:10, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

• Updated! Thanks, it probably would have taken me a while to catch that one. :) --ImGz (t/c) 23:23, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments from User:GrapedApe

• Broad question - steps have you taken to try to make the list as comprehensive as possible?

• Checked categories, went through the 1,000+ search results for Drexel U, Drexel Institute, etc, went through print sources.

• Why does Rudolph Weaver have two class year? Two different degrees?

• Clarified.

• There are lots of short notability descriptions that don't really give a good sense of why that person is notable. Things like "Illustrator," "Filmmaker," "Filipino architect" don't really mean a lot.

• Done.

• For the "unknown" alumni, like William H. Milliken, Jr., Harry Sidhu, Jack Wall, what is unknown? Is the graduation year unknown, or is it unknown whether that person graduated at all? There should be clarification on that.

• Clarified table.

• The tables should probably be constructed with the {{Alum}} template, IMHO.

• With all the recent additions I don't believe the Alum template would work well with this list. --ImGz (t/c) 20:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

• Looks like the refs for Arthur Raymond Randolph and Albert Branson Maris are dead. I suspect that the Federal Judicial Center is temporarily down.

• I noticed that a few days ago, strange for a .gov site to be down that long so I did some searching on the website - it looks like they've overhauled it and have the pages at a different address so I've updated the citations. Thanks for the comments btw!--ImGz (t/c) 00:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

• • • --GrapedApe (talk) 21:29, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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