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1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea

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Nominator(s): --Ruling party (talk) 17:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

I've nominated the list 1st Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea. It shows the composition of the communist leadership for a given period. I'm planning to nominate the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th as well.

I've also tried to give short historical summaries of the given period in question; what the communist leadership did and of course the steady accumulation of power by Kim Il-sung and the Kim family. Hopefully the eighth lists will be able to give the common folk a basic understanding of how Kim Il-sung became the Supreme Leader and how the country became the oxymoronic communist monarchy.

I'm happy to get any comments. --Ruling party (talk) 17:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Resolved comments from ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

;Comments Surprised this has been open for so long with no comments at all, so I will give it a go........ Think the words " in this case" in para 1 are redundant  Done "It convened meetings, known as "Plenary Session of the [term] Central Committee"" - surely they were all ""Plenary Session of the 1st Central Committee", as the article only covers the 1st CC.......?  Done "eighth plenary sessions were convened in 1947" - typo on the first word  Done Write the name of the WPNK in full the first time you use it (OK to show the abbreviation in brackets afterwards and then use that instead of the full name from then on  Done "The partisans, comprised soldiers" => "The partisans, comprising soldiers"  Done "While the Yanan faction, Korean revolutionaries based in China, had most representation on the committee." - this is not a complete sentence  Done "as early as 1947 [...] overhead how" - is it meant to say "overheard"?  Done "The criticism of O Ki-sop and the attacks on the indigenous North Korean communist movement, that had remained active in Korea during Japanese colonialism, was supported" - should say "were supported" as it's a plural subject  Done Plenary sessions table - no need for a full stop after "N items" in each row (or after the bullet points, or the words "not made public")  Done Personally I am not keen on hidden content, I think it should just be displayed normally The reason is to make the table more "even". Some columns have no offices and some have. I don't like the look of tables that have gigantic rows and smalls rows without any consistency. It also works well for sortability. I originally used it on the 19th CPC Central Committee list because of page constraint but I ended up liking it so much that I've kept on using it. "scholars Scalapino and Lee notes that" - should be "note that" given that the subject is plural  Done That's what I got on a first pass....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:23, 22 February 2021 (UTC) @ChrisTheDude: Thanks for commenting. --Ruling party (talk) 19:35, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

• Support - the hidden content thing isn't that big a deal I guess -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:39, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Comments

I used to consider myself one of the foremost experts on North Korean politics and the WP(N)K. But that, of course, was before Ruling party came along! This list is a fantastic work. The information itself is straightforward and easily available. The sources are good and familiar to me; I think both I and Ruling party count ourselves among fans of professor Dae-Sook Suh. What Ruling party has excelled at here is not that comparatively easy task of sourcing but instead designing this list so as to include many relevant data and display them in an appealing yet usable way. I've no complains about the actual list contents and, to reiterate, the design choices are excellent. I, too, am not a huge fan of collapsed content but this might just be one of those exceptions listed at MOS:DONTHIDE and is well reasoned for above. The only, and minor, complaints I can launch are about the citation style of the two references: Ⅲ. 북조선임시인민위원회 조직과 역할 and Korean Affairs Report.

Ⅲ. 북조선임시인민위원회 조직과 역할 should use |script-title=ko:Ⅲ. 북조선임시인민위원회 조직과 역할 and optionally |language=ko.

Korean Affairs Report is a serial work so please use something like {{cite journal}} that makes the title italic and please include the number. Additionally use an identifier of some sort. You are also citing some pages, so identify those. You can see how I've used this work e.g. here.

You could also cite these two sources in the similar short footnote style as the rest (though I myself sometimes oscillate between all short footnotes and short footnotes for just the sources I cite multiple times at different locations).

Lastly, on a tangential note, I like finding articles for redlinked names from other language Wikipedias and use {{ill}}. You can consider it, though I also think it would make your list a bit less elegant and clear. So, instead I recommend that you become a biographer as well and start writing articles for some of the more interesting early WPK figures! – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 12:52, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

@Finnusertop: Thanks for the kind words!

1. I've used the cite journal template. Good?
2. Standardised as suggested! OK?
3. I tried the tl template, but only one of the red links were translated into Korean. I'll try to write more biographical articles in the future! :) --Ruling party (talk) 14:56, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

@Finnusertop: Approved? :) --Ruling party (talk) 21:23, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Support. Sorry, Ruling party! I forgot. After having reviewed the Featured List Criteria, I'm going to support it. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Table accessibility review (MOS:DTAB): while the tables have column scopes, they are missing a caption and rowscopes, and have column headers in the middle of the table.

•  Done Please add `|+ table caption` to the top of the table, or if it would duplicate a nearby section header you can visually hide the caption as `|+ {{sronly|table caption}}`
•  Done For each row, the 'primary' cell should be marked with `scope="row"`, e.g. instead of `| 1st Plenary Session` it should be `!scope="row"| 1st Plenary Session`. If the way this changes the formatting of that column bothers you, you can add the `plainrowheaders` class to the top of the table at `{| class="wikitable"`; that said you seem to be trying to manually recreate this look in the members table with background colors.
•  Done Column headers not at the top of tables like "References" are contraindicated as screen reading software trips on them, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial#Avoiding column headers in the middle of the table. Please remove; for references one way to do it is to put the reference in the first cell of the header or else in text before, though with 6 references in the members table you might want to just make a reference column and cite each row to the right reference.

--PresN 14:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

@PresN: I did two of them, and the third too.... but it looks absolutely awful. THe problem with the third examples is that those columns are in the way of sorting columns. THe intention of this column is to be at the bottom unsortable. Making another column does not seems like the solution. For instance, am I supposed to list one source 383 times in the list 3rd Supreme People's Assembly? I would also add that adding for instance 9 refs in one column on the list 8th National Assembly of Laos (if I were to follow you're advice) would make the list very unforgiving.

The example you refer to don't mention columns at the bottom of the table, just middle. I think you are wrong here. I would very much like to revert back to the original way of referencing.. --Ruling party (talk) 18:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

1.  Done You put 'scope="col"' instead of 'scope="row"' for the row tag, and you put it on two different cells in each row. It should just be in one; presumably the romanized name column since it's first.
2.  Done The caption is supposed to be a title of the table, not "References". They're not the "references" tables. I recommend just doing Plenary sessions and Members, and probably putting them in the {{sronly}} template like I mentioned.
3.  Done I didn't mean you should put the reference in the caption, I meant you might put it in the header like "Plenum^[18]". And while I didn't look too closely at the time since I was trying to do Access reviews for 45 lists at once, I really don't think it's appropriate to have 6 wildly different references as "general references" for a 43-row table. They should be attached to what they're actually being used for, unless you're saying that all 6 are used for every single row- and even then, it'd be better to attach them to the column(s) that they're sourcing. It's absolutely not clear right now, as a reader, which source of 6 to look at to verify that Kim Tu-bong was a Yanan, or was reelected to the 2nd committee.
4. I've replied below When I did this Access Review pass, I only looked at a few specific things; looking at this list again, while I don't want to do a full review, I see a few more issues related to accessibility: the collapsed text and the garish colors. The collapsed text in the tables is hiding information from the reader, and it's not clear why- none of them are that long, and the tables aren't that wide. They should just be out and visible. The garish colors are the almost neon green and orange in the 2nd CC column- I don't actually know if they violate any access requirements, though I don't think they do, but they are very bright and stand out way more than the surrounding pastel colors for no clear reason. --PresN 22:11, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

@PresN: Obviously you know way more about Wikipedia than I do :) I've fixed the things you mentioned. I'm still against referencing each column individually—it looks ugly. I've added an explainer on each table ref to explain what it references.

As for collapsed table—they do two things; it gives me space to showcase the level of government and it tidies up the table. See 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party#Members. It also gives readers the ability to sort each office by where in the government it is (and not alphabetical, which would not make any sense to do). I'm still working on filling the tables. It seems to be extremely hard, but there has to be a source out there. Maybe I have to find a book from the 1940s to get an answer :P

garish? I had to look that word up in the dictionary. I myself have no problem seeing the text, but if you have I'll change it. Would the colour BFFF00 be any better? Do you have a colour suggestion?

Thanks for taking you're time to review this list. I am very grateful! --Ruling party (talk) 17:20, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

@PresN:  ?? --Ruling party (talk) 08:43, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

I'd suggest swapping the GreenYellow to LightGreen and the Died one to LightPink, that way their all "light" pastel colors; I don't think bright lime green is better, no. --PresN 19:29, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

@PresN: Done. Anything else? --Ruling party (talk) 12:47, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, those colors are less jarring. I still think that the collapsed text should be uncollapsed (I agree with having a heading to allow sortability), but I'll leave that to the other reviewers to decide. --PresN 19:45, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:52, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Comments Done I agree that we should not be auto-collapsing by default, that's contrary to MOS and the amount of information being collapsed is not overwhelmingly large. Done "the 1st Organisation Committee" this is overlinked and heads to the generic article, should a specific (red-linked if need be) article be linked instead? Done "twelve plenary sessions.[6] Of those twelve, eight" merge, ie. twelve plenary sessions, of which eight..." Done "and elected .. and elected" repetitive run-on. Done "d elected the WPNK Chairman and two vice chairs.[9] Kim Tu-bong was elected as Chairman while Kim Il-sung and Chu Yong-ha were elected vice chairmen.[9] " merge this, you're effectively saying the same thing twice. Done "and appointed the ..." again, too many run-ons. Done (think so at least) "1947 [...] overheard" see MOS:ELLIPSIS. Done "Start–End" column just has a single date, is it assumed to be one day long each time? In which case just put date. Done Sortable tables, linked items should be linked every time as it's not certain the linked item will appear first after a re-sort. Done Start–End column doesn't sort properly. Done Hangul col heading needs a footnote to explain what it means. Comment Do we have a consensus on the red link issue yet, more than half of the main table comprises red-linked subjects. Only one of the red links had an article in another language. I feel it would be waste to interlink to other WPs and I think it would make the list a bit more messy. Done "p. 565–6 " should be pp. and be consistent with numbers of digits used at either end of the page range. Done See ref 3 too, and check al page ranges for the number of digits issue. That's all I have on a quick run. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:48, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Great comments. I'll respond to them by the end of the weekend. --Ruling party (talk) 06:15, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: Thanks for using you're spare time to review the list! --Ruling party (talk) 06:08, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: Everything good? --Ruling party (talk) 13:31, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Source review – Pass

Doing now. Aza24 (talk) 02:42, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

• Version reviewed: [2]

Formatting

• Please mark ref 22 as in Korean, with "|language=Korean"
• For 22 as well, the English translation of the title should be under the parameter "|trans-title=" — not just put after the Korean title
• Ah ha, now here's a nitpick, in ref 22 you have "1946–48" but the page ranges only have a single digit for ranges
• Why no link for University of California Press, but for the others?

Reliability

• First rate, no issues here

Verifiability

• To increase verifiability, I would suggest adding an OCLC number (with "|oclc=") to Paik (found here).
• That seems to be it; good work. Aza24 (talk) 02:51, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

@Aza24: Done :) --Ruling party (talk) 06:28, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank for your attentiveness! Pass for source review. Aza24 (talk) 06:45, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Comments

With the recent discussion at WT:FLC, I'll add my comments to help bring this nomination closer to consensus.

• Done The infobox colors are somewhat close for accessibility – per MOS:COLOR, contrast should meet WCAG's AA level and preferably AAA level. According to the tool I used (link), the yellow font and red background meet the former but not the latter. I'm not too worried about it, but if you get some time, it might be worth changing the colors to increase the contrast. (I realize there are other North Korea, USSR, etc. templates that probably use the same color scheme due to its use in communist flags, so use your judgement here.)
• Done No need for quotes around "Plenary Session of the 1st Central Committee" or "Enlarged Plenary Session" in lead
  • Done Also, Plenary Session of the 1st Central Committee → Plenary Sessions of the 1st Central Committee and Enlarged Plenary Session → Enlarged Plenary Sessions
• Done For two-digit numbers in lead, pick either digits (i.e., 22) or words (i.e., twenty-two) and stick with that format
• Done (...) → [...]
• Done "While the Yanan faction, formed by Korean revolutionaries based in China during Japanese rule, had the most representation on the committee." – sentence fragment
• Done North O Ki-sop was accused → North, O Ki-sop, was accused
• Done Table headings already use bold font, so remove the manual bold font (''' symbol) to prevent double bolding
• Done As people have pointed out before, there is no need to collapse text in tables. This type of formatting is discouraged per MOS:COLLAPSE.
• Done Noter → Notes

— RunningTiger123 (talk) 23:11, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

@RunningTiger123: Thanks for taking you're time! :) I'll the problems shortly. --Ruling party (talk) 12:27, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

@RunningTiger123: OK? :) --Ruling party (talk) 12:47, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Support – can't wait to see more of these lists at FLC! RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:22, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :) --Ruling party (talk) 06:50, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

• 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. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:07, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

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