Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of colleges and universities in West Virginia/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 promoted by Hahc21 03:45, 9 March 2014 [1].

List of colleges and universities in West Virginia edit

Featured list candidates/List of colleges and universities in West Virginia/archive1

Nominator(s): Caponer (talk) 19:40, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because it is a comprehensive list of colleges and universities operating in the U.S. state of West Virginia, based upon the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. -- Caponer (talk) 19:40, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For the situational awareness of the FL reviewers, this article was reviewed and featured in DYK. The DYK review may be referenced here: Template:Did you know nominations/List of colleges and universities in West Virginia. -- Caponer (talk) 23:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Excellent listCoal town guy (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just placing a note that I haven't forgotten about this nomination! Will be hopefully adding some comments soon. :) Ruby 2010/2013 14:08, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your attention to this nomination, Ruby! I look forward to reviewing your comments! -- Caponer (talk) 00:11, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please move the accreditation agencies below the main table, it is by far not the most important thing about this list. --Golbez (talk) 00:00, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Golbez, thank you for your suggestion. Done! -- Caponer (talk) 03:12, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support: (having stumbled here from my FLC discussion page). Most encyclopedic and educational. A few redlinks sprinkled throughout, but those aren't holdups for featured quality. I like the background and intro discussion in the lede section. Nice job, — Cirt (talk) 01:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments. Great looking list; just leaving a few thoughts behind (sorry for the delay in commenting!):

Have you considered using Template:Multiple image for images in the lead?

Thanks for the suggestion! I've found three images of West Virginia university buildings of similar size and scope. There aren't too many images available on Wikimedia Commons to work with. Let me know what you think! -- Caponer (talk) 13:33, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"In addition, there are two ~~institutions~~ classified as special-focus institutions."

Thanks for the catch! I've corrected this sentence. -- Caponer (talk) 13:33, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the data you are using is more recent than 2012 ([2])

Thanks for the catch! I've corrected his one as well. -- Caponer (talk) 14:10, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like there are a lot more defunct institutions than you included ([3])

I chose to only include Mountain State University and Storer College, as they were the only two defunct institutions with existing Wikipedia articles. I wanted to avoid a list of red-links at the bottom of the article. Would this be a deal breaker to just include these two, and add additional defunct colleges as their respective articles become available in the future? I could also create stubs for each institute if this is a deal breaker. -- Caponer (talk) 13:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, your explanation makes sense to me (I'd just add them as they're created). Ruby 2010/2013 03:45, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest inputting the WV portal in the See also section. Ruby 2010/2013 04:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done! I've moved the portals to the See also section. -- Caponer (talk) 13:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ruby, thank you so incredibly much for taking the time to review this article. I'll be piece-mealing my response as I address each of your concerns. Thanks again! -- Caponer (talk) 13:33, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your changes look great. I am now happy to support the promotion of this list. Nice work! Ruby 2010/2013 03:45, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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