Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kerala

Kerala

Self-nomination. Peer review. This article has been changed in terms of copyediting, referencing, comprehensiveness, and layout. Got much-needed help and critique from User:Tintin1107 and User:Raghu.kuttan. Saravask 09:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Object – sorry to have missed PR.

1. I think the article needs to be summarised further since it stands at about 44kb (raw). Most sections are long, and it would be more productive to copy the same into main articles and sumarise the same here. It should not take you more than a day.
2. A light copyedit is needed.
3. Reduce the image size and avoid starting images with left aligned images.
4. The history section should come before geography.
5. District map needed
6. Kuttanad (below sea level) feature missing.
7. I personally feel that matter in the lead should not be interrupted by footnotes.
8. Nothing on sports?
9. Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to the east and northeast and the Indian Ocean islands of Lakshadweep and the Maldives to the west. -- I think the Maldives lie to the south. You also missed Mahe (Pondicherry).
10. Is the great Hornbill photo taken out in kerala? There are some great nature photos on Marayoor btw.
11. Sundar also has a great fishing nets photo.
12. Ernakulam is the judicial capital of the state. plz mention

=Nichalp «Talk»= 10:19, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe I addressed all these points here. Saravask 18:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. In response to Nichalp's first point, I have the article (minus the infobox/Notes/References/Ex.Links) currently clocked at 28kb. --maclean25 06:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Well done on the copyedit, a few points: 1. The =Trivia= material should be integrated with the text 2. =Related topics= renamed to ==See also==. Can you also link to wikiquote and wikitravel? The portal is repeated twice. =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
    • [1]. Saravask 10:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
      • Thanks support =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• Support Its an awesome, awesome article. Its beautiful. Rama's Arrow 17:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Support. As pointed out by Nichalp, some things may need tweaking, but this article has improved greatly in the past few weeks. Not that long ago, I took out a superfluous and poorly dones section on festivals while thinking to myself that the article had degenerated into a specious collection of one-line sections and hopeless lists. Excellent work bringing this article back, but may need just a few minor adjustments at the moment, but nothing so severe that it shouldn't be able to pass FA in a week of conscientious editing. RyanGerbil10 06:57, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support, greatly improved from a short while ago. Andrew Levine 15:44, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Object. Small Finnish cities are not notable enough. Oh, you meant Kerala. Support. This is much better than Helsinki, which I nominated for a featured article myself. JIP | Talk 20:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. I didn't know that such a nice article was brewing in my backyard! -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 11:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: can you get hold of the state's extreme temperatures? =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I've not found reliable sources for this, despite looked around for an hour. I've have even searched the Indian Meteorological Department's website. Someone else has, perhaps?
• Support. Such a great article. Gflores ^Talk 18:53, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. B-e-a-utiful. --Khoikhoi 07:52, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Translating Image:Caminho maritimo para a India.png into English and using it in the History section would be appropriate. Also, consider using images from commons:Kerala. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 11:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I think Image:Caminho maritimo para a India.png is too specialized to appear in Kerala — this was also true (by comments others made) of figures/maps I drew on the Geography of Kerala — two of the three were too specialized. Also, I am the one who loaded up and overhauled commons:Kerala (check the edit history, for example); I'm familiar w/ all the images there, and I think I choose the best images. Let me know if there are even better ones elsewhere. Thanks. Saravask 03:42, 27 January 2006 (UTC)