Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients
- 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: 13 days, 4 support, 0 oppose. Promote. Scorpion0422 03:50, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, another one of my Victoria Cross related topics. This list is in the mould of List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients which is a very recently promoted FL. I think this list meets the criteria and displays all you would want to know about the recipients. As always any suggestions/improvements would be appreciated if you feel them neccessary. Thanks. Woodym555 23:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Conditional support: Shouldn't all those places be wikilinked? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 23:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, i don't think so and here is my reasoning. Wikilinks are used when theyt add something to the article. I don't think linking to a stub about a forest in France will add anything to this list. This is strengthened by the fact thjat most villages have changed immeasurably since WWI, WWII. What has an article on modern day Crimea got to do with a war fought 150 years ago. I think linking to battles where available would be preferable. Saying that though, several VCs were won for several actions over several days. I will try and add battle links, but would that be better in a separate column? Woodym555 14:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Depends. My objection was the list of places, with no way to find out anything about them or why a person won a medal there - the places were basically useless information. If the *battle* was the reason the person won the award, I think that should be there and linked. If not, perhaps the place could be linked to a nearby city/town/village? I dunno - but just having the place, with no link, doesn't seem right. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 23:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Why doesn't it seem right? I think it is useful to know where it took place. Why do you need a link if it isn't adding anything to the list? Usually there is a battle or campaign for which they were awarded, though in the case of Johnson Beharry, a recent recipient, there isn't a battle. His award was for several actions in different places. More opinions on this would be welcome... :) Woodym555 (talk) 23:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I was started wading though it, using extra links to battles to substitute, but most of these places are actually small villages instead of the actual division they are in, when the name aren,t incorrect or impossible to determine for lack of infomation on Wikipedia as to which of the dozens of villages with that name is concerned. It is a much more complicated quagmire than it looks. this version is done up to Edmund De Wind. Circeus (talk) 04:52, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Why doesn't it seem right? I think it is useful to know where it took place. Why do you need a link if it isn't adding anything to the list? Usually there is a battle or campaign for which they were awarded, though in the case of Johnson Beharry, a recent recipient, there isn't a battle. His award was for several actions in different places. More opinions on this would be welcome... :) Woodym555 (talk) 23:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Depends. My objection was the list of places, with no way to find out anything about them or why a person won a medal there - the places were basically useless information. If the *battle* was the reason the person won the award, I think that should be there and linked. If not, perhaps the place could be linked to a nearby city/town/village? I dunno - but just having the place, with no link, doesn't seem right. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 23:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, i don't think so and here is my reasoning. Wikilinks are used when theyt add something to the article. I don't think linking to a stub about a forest in France will add anything to this list. This is strengthened by the fact thjat most villages have changed immeasurably since WWI, WWII. What has an article on modern day Crimea got to do with a war fought 150 years ago. I think linking to battles where available would be preferable. Saying that though, several VCs were won for several actions over several days. I will try and add battle links, but would that be better in a separate column? Woodym555 14:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Object- I feel that the main text needs inline citations. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Good point, don't know why i missed that. I have added them in now. Woodym555 14:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support well done. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Good point, don't know why i missed that. I have added them in now. Woodym555 14:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]