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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 promoted by Giants2008 23:08, 27 February 2012 [1].

List of cities and towns in California edit

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Nominator(s): Kurykh (talk) 04:50, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As of this writing, my nomination of List of municipalities in the San Francisco Bay Area has two supports and no actionable items, so nominating this shouldn't be much of a problem. Anyway, the format of this list mirrors that of the Bay Area list, even using the same lead section and table formats. After overhauling the entire thing, I believe it should be FL quality at this point. Kurykh (talk) 04:50, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Surprisingly couldn't see any issues (noting that I am not a Californian, so a native might see something I don't). The ordering of the images by population size was a nice touch. Well done with the list, Ruby 2010/2013 18:51, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Giants2008 (Talk) 18:37, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments –
  • Intro is missing one important link – to California.
  • At the same time, there's overlinking of other cities in the lead: three links to Los Angeles and two to San Diego. One each will do fine.
    • Done. One of the San Diego links actually links to somewhere else. --Kurykh (talk) 09:22, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Be careful about time terms like "today", such as the one in "California is today an economic powerhouse." The sentence works fine without it, actually.
    • Done. --Kurykh (talk) 09:22, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • It now says "California is an $1.85 trillion economic powerhouse". "an" should be replaced by "a", I believe. Giants2008 (Talk) 16:12, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "with its $1.85 trillion economy being larger than all but eight countries." Nit-picking here, but the prose reviewers at FAC would tell you that the "with ... -ing" sentence structure is awkward and not the best to be using. Try to re-word it to get that out.
  • Alt text would be nice for the non-lead images. Giants2008 (Talk) 02:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • The caption text functions as the alt text in this case. --Kurykh (talk) 09:22, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from NapHit (talk) 21:20, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - When I click on the alt viewer tool in the toolbox, it states that there is no alt text for the non lead images. All it says is large unlinked images, which suggests to me that there is no alt text for those images. Other than that the list looks good. NapHit (talk) 23:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The images are coded such that screen readers will not read the image title (the "dot jay pee gee" thing). Adding dedicated alt text when the caption text serves the same function seems needlessly verbose. --Kurykh (talk) 00:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Scratch that just read the guidelines and I'd say these are images are for decorative purposes, so you've got it right, apologies. One more thing I noticed, while viewing the list on my iPhone the dagger did not show up, you need to add, instead of having † in the bracket things (I'm not sure what they're proper name is), you need to spell out dagger to ensure they show up. NapHit (talk) 13:51, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The daggers work on my iPhone, but done. --Kurykh (talk) 21:11, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support NapHit (talk) 21:20, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I read through this earlier and meant to comment at that point, but got distracted. So, I've read through it again, and everything looks good! Prose and references are solid, image licensing looks OK to me (though I'm not an expert), and the table is easy to use and understand. Dana boomer (talk) 21:46, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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