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List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal edit

Nominator(s): —indopug (talk) 04:39, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Another India-related chief ministers list, this time for West Bengal. The article is modelled on List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka, which passed FLC recently. Any comments will be addressed swiftly.—indopug (talk) 04:39, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Golbez (talk)
- I'm going to take some things from my U.S. governor lists for this, but not all may be appropriate for this topic, so just a heads up on that. :)
- I'm unfamiliar with the template, so it's fine if this isn't possible, but "0 years 160 days" is an odd construction. Is it possible to finesse that to simply read "160 days"?

Done.—indopug (talk) 02:57, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- I think the "term" should be split out into "took office" and "left office"; that way we don't awkwardly get dates on two lines.

Done.—indopug (talk) 02:57, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- I would have argued against including duration, but the terms here appear to not be on a set schedule, so I suppose that makes sense. In an office with a set "every X years" election schedule, that would be far less useful.
- At present, the color key at the top seems extraneous, since it's not actually a key for anything, since every color block is next to its appropriate party. I would say remove it altogether.

I don't really disagree with you, but I've been including it ever since an FLC delegate said it should be there in a previous FLC (open the "Resolved comments" banner). I think it isn't clear what the colours represent if they aren't defined before hand.—indopug (talk) 02:57, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- I'm not entirely convinced that the premiers of Bengal should be included on this list... to call back to another governor thing, it appears (and I could be wrong so please correct me) that the situation is similar to Dakota Territory, where it was split into two states. I wouldn't repeat the list of territorial governors of Dakota Territory on both state lists, I would have a separate article for that. Should the Premiers of Bengal be in their own article, detailing the premiership of that distinct political unit?
- The caption for Ghosh reads "first chief minister" but according to the list he was first premier and fourth chief minister, not first chief minister; the caption should be updated accordingly.

Doing...—indopug (talk) 09:33, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"As per the Constitution of India" 'As per' is a bit colloquial. I would prefer 'In accordance with".
"Given that he has the confidence". Should be 'he or she' - especially as the incumbent is a woman!
" All three erstwhile Bengal premiers" - I would delete 'erstwhile' as redundant.
"The first was Prafulla Chandra Ghosh of the Indian National Congress, who was succeeded by his party-mates Bidhan Chandra Roy and Prafulla Chandra Sen." I do not think 'party-mate' is a word, and it would be helpful to give the year stability ended. Not sure of the best wording, but perhaps something like "Until [year] the state was governed by three Indian National Congress Chief Ministers, firstly Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, and then Bidhan Chandra Roy and Prafulla Chandra Sen."
I do not think you need two photos of the current Chief Minister. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:31, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments (I am absolutely unfamiliar with the subject matter, so this is for table content/refs mainly):

The three paragraph lead contains only a single sources/reference. Beginning in the second paragraph I think there needs to be more.
Premiers of Bengal
- Alt text missing from three images
- Ref#4 should also be applied to the “Left office” column
- Election dates and party should have refs (I don’t think linking to other Wikipedia articles is enough). If a single source covers these it could go at the top of the column.
Chief Ministers of West Bengal
- Note C – you might mean to say a number in parentheses, not brackets.
- The list is not sortable so I’m not sure you need to have more than the first appearance of a name or a term linked to the article. The table is complex and does a good job of representing the subject.--Godot13 (talk) 05:13, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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