Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of polio survivors
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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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 10 days, 9 support, 0 oppose. Promote. --MarcK 18:08, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This list started as a dense section at the end of the poliomyelitis article, sourced only to a geocities web page. In keeping with WP:MEDMOS, this list was split off and reliably sourced and expanded by me, DO11.10 and MarcoTolo. I believe this now meets all the criteria for a featured list. At 183 notable individuals, this is the most comprehensive list of polio survivors to be found. Colin°Talk 21:50, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: I think the list is great. I just wanted to add one more detail with respect to voting on the FLC. According to FL criteria, it states "in the case of dynamic lists, by not omitting any major component of the subject." and thus this list is qualified for the same. Just an observation - the reference list is long. I am not for sprucing it down but for adding a structure to reduce the page space it occupies. I shall implement a solution shortly and if anyone has any objections to it, please feel free to remove it. --Kalyan 06:01, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the support and for trying to help with the references. Unfortunately, the solution (scrollbox references) seems to be very controversial at the moment. It doesn't allow the references to be printed, and there are concerns wrt browsers adapted for disabled readers and the ability of mirror-sites to reproduce them. Until WP comes up with a solution to this (probably user-preference-based) I think it is best to avoid. Thanks anyway. Colin°Talk 08:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: extremely comprehensive, excellent referencing (to the point of obsession, in fact). Geraldk 19:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support The images could reasonably go to reduce the article's visual length, especially on sizes below 1024. Circeus 04:24, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, though I would like a reference for the sentence "Others remember the fear and isolation" in the lead. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:40, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. I've added a ref that I think backs it up nicely. Colin°Talk 15:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, I didn't even think of it as a list when I first stumbled across it, it's so lush with text and references. Major thumbs up. -- Zanimum 17:33, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- * Comment: Judith E. Heumann... is there a better public domain picture? Like, the picture is great, but it's so small. Is it possible to find a larger version of this image, perhaps without the name embedded in? If so, or if not, could you download, resave, and reupload the image as a JPG or PNG? GIFs should be avoided. (I can help with that part, if you don't like/have photo editing software.) -- Zanimum 17:48, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support A great list on an unusual topic. DSachan 08:59, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great job! --Crzycheetah 20:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, this is a fine piece of work and most certainly meets Wikipedia:Featured list criteria. --Stormie 00:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]