Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of islands of Michigan/archive1

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 not promoted by Dabomb87 18:36, 2 January 2010 [1].

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List of islands of Michigan

Nominator(s): Notorious4life (talk) 06:17, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

• Featured list candidates/List of islands of Michigan/archive1

I am nominating this for featured list, because the list is fully complete, well structured, very accurate, easily navigable, and is categorized very well with an extensive amount of information. My only real concern is that the article may be too long at 115 kilobytes to meet specific criteria without being split into multiple articles (though the maximum length of an article is not really mentioned in the criteria). —Notorious4life (talk) 06:17, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

• Support In my opinion the article is very user-friendly and easy to navigate.Mephiston999 (talk) 11:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose from KV5

• There are absolutely no references anywhere in this article. Two external links are simply not acceptable.
• Featured lists no longer start with "This is a list of...". See recently promoted featured lists for examples.
• The FLC hasn't been initiated properly, as there's no banner on the talk page.
• Some em-dashes are spaced; em-dashes should not be spaced per WP:DASH.
• All images need alt text.
• All of the colors in the tables need to be united in a single key and accompanied by a symbol per WP:ACCESS. I have no idea what the orange means right now.
• "Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes" - I don't see that many in this list; what are the criteria for inclusion that makes this list smaller than the claimed number?

Some serious issues here that need to be fixed before I could considering supporting. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 14:01, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

• I added the talk page banner. To nominator: please follow the nominating instruction when nominating a FLC.—Chris!_c/t 18:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose. Per the lack of references. Ruslik_Zero 19:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose, this list is a nice starting point and has potential, but some critical elements are still lacking. The most obvious is the complete lack of references. Some other comments:

• When I clicked on the link, I was expecting to see the island, location and coordinates (that is all nice), but also the size (in both metric and imperial unit) and the populations. Frankly, a list like this is not much worth if not details like this are provided. Because of the information in the lead and section leads, I feel that information is being withheld because data is being provided for a limited number of the islands.
• If the above mentioned information was added, I would have preferred to see a column for 'body of water' added and make a single table that then could be sorted.
• The maps are nice, but I would have liked to have seen a few images to increase my feel for the topic.
• The lead fails to mention the number of islands, even though it mentions the number of of lakes and ponds.
• It is better to use the {{convert}} template for conversion, among other things because the text uses ² instead of <sup>2</sup> that produces ².
• There is no key; obviously there is some color coding system, and this needs to be explained. Also, the colors need to be supplemented with a symbol for accessibility.

Arsenikk ^(talk) 12:55, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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