Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations

List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by continent, by name and by date joined

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal 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: Open 19 days, significant problems not addressed and no recent attempts to address them. All three Delisted -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 04:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think these three lists should be merged together. The reason I am bringing this here first is because I think the articles should be properly delisted so that a merge could occur, and if they are delisted, I'll work on merging the three pages. They were created over two years ago before the table sortability option was introduced.

Individually, the List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by continent and List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by name are not formatted as well as it could be and the list of nations should be converted to table form (the one used at List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined is a good start although the colour scheme used is a tad confusing). There could be a notes column for various things, but all of them would need citations. There doesn't appear to be any sources for the "Countries which did not join the Commonwealth on independence" or "Former members" sections. Finally, the lead needs a bit of expanding. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 17:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's also List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by population which isn't featured, but should be incorporated. I agree. Now that table sorting is implemented in such a way that we can exclude columns and handle dates, numbers, etc, then we should take advantage of it. I support your proposal that the old pages be delisted and a new nom would be required. I see there is a Merge comment on some of the talk pages. Perhaps a proper merge talk-banner/notice should be used to see if there are any comments. If the merge is approved, delisting would be automatic once the old articles were deleted--there's no need to delist prior to that. Colin°^Talk 20:20, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]