Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of counties in Maryland

List of counties in Maryland

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: 10 days, 5 support, 0 oppose. Promote. --MarcK 12:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just the nominator - most of the work was previously done by other editors, but it's a quality list. Geraldk 03:25, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Not quite up to the standard of Kentucky and Texas, which are both FL. A few points to help out:

Expand the lead. Both Kentucky & Texas have much more expansive leads that give a little more history.

Entymology. Where did the county names come from? Both FLs say what or who the county was named after.

~~Address these issues and I'll change my vote. Anthony Hit me up... 10:41, 23 June 2007 (UTC)~~[reply]

Support - all issues addressed. My one comment is regarding the merge tag. Is there going to be a move to merge all existing etymology pages into their respective county lists, provided the county list page reaches FL-status? I would imagine, if the "List of counties in XXX" article includes county etymology, then "List of XXX county name etymologies" is redundant and unnecessary. That notwithstanding, the list itself is FL-worthy. Anthony Hit me up... 17:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Anthony; the ref section should be named References as well. -- Phoenix2 ^(holla) 15:14, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've expanded the lead - please let me know if you think it needs to be longer, or needs to include additional information. Also added etymology back in - given the way the table was set up, I think it was there originally and someone replaced it with land area, which is not present in the Kentucky example but is present in the Texas example. I wasn't familiar enough with the table format to keep both, and assume that there might be opportunity for a separate list titled "List of Maryland counties by land area" or the re-addition of the land area at a later date (I think the etymology is more important anyway, but I'm a history guy so I'm biased). Changed sources to references as well. Geraldk 03:26, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks better now, support. -- Phoenix2 ^(holla) 07:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Oppose~~ I added the areas back in, but I really feel that the populations should be included also (as per Louisiana and Texas). Tompw (talk) (review) 16:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Populations were added in by JHoltzman. Geraldk 19:20, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support The lack of references was also of concern, but that's now fine. Tompw (talk) (review) 19:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support I beleive that it is now up to par with Texas and Kentucky in terms of information presented and should be featured.--JHoltzman 13:37, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral
- I'm personally ambiguous with the "population" and "area"columns (they weren't in the original county feature, Kentucky), however, that is probably because there is too much text in the "origins" and "etymology" columns.
- I suggest that the detailed etymologies be either left out, or kept separate in List of Maryland county etymologies.
- Also, move the "formed from" text in the header, (per the other FL for counties).
Circeus 23:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm afraid I didn't understand what you meant about the "Formed from" column. Could you clarify, please? Geraldk 12:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - The other list instead of saying "Origins" in the header, use "formed from". See the Kentucky list, for example. It reduces the amount of text in the cell, too. By the way, could the fate of the defunct counties be given? Circeus 05:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]