Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives/archive2

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 delisted by Crisco 1492 12:21, 18 February 2014‎ [1].

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives edit

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I am nominating this for featured list removal because FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives should be a full article about this most wanted list and therefore eligible to be an FA, not an FL. This article only lists the fugitives who are currently on the most wanted list, but the paragraphical information is about the most wanted list in general, covering the whole history of the most wanted list. This should be the general article, and much more paragraphical information should be added. A table listing the fugitives currently on the most wanted list should remain in the article, but that fact doesn't make the article a list article. It is only the year- or decade-specific lists that should be eligible to become FLs. Neelix (talk) 20:37, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment how did this qualify for an FL? It should nominally be in constant flux as people are added and removed, therefore is never a stable list. -- 70.50.148.122 (talk) 08:01, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delist per 70.50.148.122. Unfortunately, this is by nature a dynamic list. Tezero (talk) 03:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Neelix, maybe your concern can be better addressed by moving this article to "List of FBI Ten..." and rewriting the "FBI Ten Most Wanted" as a prose-based article that goes into the significance of the list, its history, opinions about it, its impact etc etc?
Tezero and 70.50, "stability" means that there shouldn't be constant edit wars going on. Not that the article should remain the same always. Otherwise, very useful lists like List of current Canadian first ministers or List of current Indian chief ministers should also not be featured, which is absurd. Further, even going by your criteria, the list was last updated in June, and before that in 2009. So the idea that it is in "constant flux" is incorrect.—indopug (talk) 16:33, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I had considered the kind of move you recommend, but I think it superfluous to have a stand-alone list of the currently listed fugitives; such a list would need to be included on the main article in order for that article to be complete anyhow, and we already have lists of previously listed fugitives by year and decade. If any users are interested in getting a list up to featured status that is related to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, I would recommend one of the year-specific lists, such as FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1950 (which should probably be moved to 1950 FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives or similar). Neelix (talk) 22:28, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delist I would agree with Indopug that this should be moved to a FBI Ten Most Wanted article, but that's not the remit of FLRC. That would need to go via WP:RM or similar. But only after that would we be able to determine if a "current" list was worthy of FLC. I imagine that there is a huge amount of information regarding notable past "most wanted" criminals, so an article is the first step to solving that. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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