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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 promoted by Crisco 1492 03:30, 15 November 2014 [1].

List of Scheduled Monuments in Bath and North East Somerset[edit]

List of Scheduled Monuments in Bath and North East Somerset (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): — Rod talk 15:11, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because it provides a variety of ways of viewing and sorting the 58 scheduled monuments in Bath and North East Somerset by age, geography, type etc. — Rod talk 15:11, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Dudley Miles[edit]

  • "The current legislation supporting this is the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979" This is not quite right. 'current' is recentism, and the Act surely governs rather than supporting (although I see that the NE page uses the word 'support'). The reference for this paragraph only supports the first half.
    • I'm not sure of the best way to say it. The Act referred to replaced previous legislation, and, although from 1979, is still the one which applies. The "supports" refers to the process of scheduling in the previous sentence. I will look at the references.
  • "The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built." I would prefer "The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is one of the largest Neolithic monuments ever built, and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury)."
  • "There are also several Iron Age hillforts such as the one at Maes Knoll" Why not "such as Maes Knoll"?
  • "which is connected to the Wansdyke a medieval defensive earthwork" It is a bit confusing to say that it is connected to a later structure. Perhaps "which was later incorporated into the medieval Wansdyke, a defensive earthwork.
  • "More recent sites include several bridges which date from the Middle Ages to the Palladian bridge in Prior Park Landscape Garden[10][11] and Dundas Aqueduct which was built in 1805" This seems to say that an aquaduct is a bridge. I would make it two sentences.
    • The Dundas Aqueduct is a bridge (carries the K&A canal over the river and railway) so I don't quite see what is wrong with that one.— Rod talk 07:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • More to follow. Dudley Miles (talk) 18:38, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ucucha's Harv error script shows note 53 as an error.
    • Thanks - I wasn't aware of that tool now installed & error hopefully fixed.— Rod talk 07:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I ought to know, but what is the point of Wikidata?
    • I'm sure there are better explanations somewhere, but to me it links together all references to an entity across all wiki projects (commons and foreign languages as well as en). I think it is useful here as the same site can be a Scheduled Monument and a listed building, so may have entries on several lists (and EH reference numbers) but only one article. User:Pigsonthewing added it to the template which is used on hundreds of these sorts of lists so I have been adding it where the object has one. I have been thinking of making it hidden (as the date scheduled column is) so that machines can still find it but people don't see it - not sure about this at present.
  • A good list, but shouldn't it have a column for a brief description? Dudley Miles (talk) 20:12, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm never sure whether a description is needed or not, as most of the data you might put in it is listed in the other columns.— Rod talk 07:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments, which I will continue to work on.— Rod talk 07:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • I've now added a notes column as suggested. This is very wide on my screen compared to the other columns. Do you think this is helpful?— Rod talk 17:57, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Nice looking page - and I can only echo the previous reviewer: first rate! - SchroCat (talk) 21:32, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I have had a read of the lead knowing little about this subject and I feel that it gives a very useful and well-written summary of the topic which is very well-referenced. The table is clearly ordered and referenced throughout and I do believe this meets the FL criteria. I will echo the reviews above - well done! Many thanks, --Noswall59 (talk) 01:26, 11 November 2014 (UTC).[reply]
  • Closing note: This candidate has been Promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:19, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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