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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 Scorpion0422 23:34, 13 June 2009 [1].

List of State University of New York units edit

Nominator(s): MBisanz talk 00:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I am nominating this for featured list because I created it several months ago and have put many hours into making it a useful and visually pleasing list. I believe it meets all of the FL-criteria and have fixed the problems noted at its peer review. MBisanz talk 00:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Support

*I don't know if male/female ratio is an important enough statistic to even be included here, but they should definitely be merged into a single column, as they are simply inverse to each other. *County is probably fine, but I would think the town/city the college is in is more important. I think the lead and everything else look fine. Just combine those two identical columns. Reywas92Talk 02:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I will merge the m/f column tonight.
  • My thought on the towns was that many schools have multiple campuses in multiple towns. I suppose I could add a column for the main campus town. I'll think more about it today. MBisanz talk 11:45, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • On further thought I went ahead and added the town information. MBisanz talk 12:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Looks great! I support. Reywas92Talk 17:06, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also, there are an awful lot of references on the page. Do so many all need to be linked to Collegeboard, College Navigator, and the Carnegie Institution lookup? What do others think? Reywas92Talk 02:41, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • reference column doesn't need to be sortable
  • link for ref 124 doesn't work

—Chris! ct 03:31, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Fixed reference column.
  • Fixed ref 124. MBisanz talk 11:45, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Support –

  • In the third paragraph, "despite the fact that" is not the best structure possible. "although" or "even though" are both less wordy.
  • Comma after "The largest institution is the University of Buffalo"?
  • First sentence of the fifth para needs a couple more "the"s before associations. Giants2008 (17-14) 23:14, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:30, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)
Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
  • "plus 1.1 million continuing education students spanning 64 campuses across the state" "attending" seems better than "spanning".
  • "There are a large variety of colleges in the SUNY system with some overlap in specialties from site to site." Could you be a little less vague? How did they vary (subject matter, location, admissions, etc.)?
  • "four distinct categories"
  • "university centers/doctoral-granting institutions" Spaced slash per MOS:SLASH
  • "with its statutory colleges which embeds state-owned, state-funded colleges within other institutions such as Cornell University and Alfred University. "-->with its statutory colleges, which embed state-owned, state-funded colleges within other institutions such as Cornell University and Alfred University.
  • "are entirely different university systems, even though both are public institutions which receive funding from New York State." You could do awat with "entirely". "which"-->that
  • "which was founded in 1816" You can apply this change to a similar construction later in that paragraph.
  • You might link "County" in the column headers to List of counties in New York (also a featured list).
  • Can you center the em dashes in all the columns?
  • File:OCC Entrance Sign.JPG doesn't have any licensing info. I don't have time to go through all the images, but please make sure everything is in order. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I fixed everything except the image which already had a PD license tag. MBisanz talk 02:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:30, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Change ref titles that are allcaps to title case, even if they were like that in the original (refs 3 and 124). Dabomb87 (talk) 20:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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