Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of current members of the Maryland Senate/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 Matthewedwards 22:39, 27 June 2009 [1].
- Nominator(s): Geraldk (talk) 15:08, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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This is modeled on a previous FL Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates. Credit should go to User:Marylandstater for maintaining it in my absence and providing the wealth of pictures. He's working on getting the rest of the pictures, but doesn't have them yet. However, I don't think the lack of a couple images detracts from the overall quality of the list. Geraldk (talk) 15:08, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - nice list, but images are way too small and the column should not be sortable.—Chris! ct 22:10, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree with Chris. Either make room for larger images or remove them altogether. When do they take office after being elected? You may want to center the district and elected columns. Also be sure to improve Maryland Senate while you're at it. Reywas92Talk 03:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks both for suggestions. Have implemented all of them, including doubling the size of the images. In the case of the question about when they take office, the only place I was able to find specific mention was in the state constitution itself, but it does not explicitly explain when those who are appointed to their seats take office, so I've not mentioned that. And I will definitely be getting to the Senate article - am slowly working towards a featured topic on the assembly as a whole. Geraldk (talk) 11:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, the page title and the lead both use Maryland State Senate, yet that article is Maryland Senate. What's right? I'd move this list to just List of current members of the Maryland Senate.
- Vacant Seat in the composition table should not be colored, or better yet not even there.
- The executive nominations column looks terrible because the dashes are centered but the words are to the left. I would just center the entire table with
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. - Rather than referencing column headings, those should probably just be general references.
- I think that's all. Reywas92Talk 18:27, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- All done. With the reference, I separated out as a general reference any ref that was on a column header. Unfortunately, a lot of those same references were used in portions of the lead, so the lead now looks under-referenced, but it didn't make sense to list a reference as both general and specific. Let me know if the current ref formating works or if I should look for another solution. Geraldk (talk) 23:05, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks good. Reywas92Talk 02:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- All done. With the reference, I separated out as a general reference any ref that was on a column header. Unfortunately, a lot of those same references were used in portions of the lead, so the lead now looks under-referenced, but it didn't make sense to list a reference as both general and specific. Let me know if the current ref formating works or if I should look for another solution. Geraldk (talk) 23:05, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
--Crzycheetah 05:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Support and thanks for the compliment.--Crzycheetah 01:52, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Support —Chris! ct 19:23, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:03, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
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Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks good enough. – (iMatthew • talk) at 01:26, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments
- I'm basing my review off the List of current Canadian senators, which is also a FL.
- I think that one looks tidier and is easier to read. I think the lack of coloured rows is a big part of it. Would you consider removing the complete colour from this list and switching it a method similar to what is used in the Canadian list? Some of the Governors FLs use a similar method, ie. List of Governors of Arizona.
- Does the "Current party composition" need an entire section? I would almost argue that the table isn't needed, since there are two parties and the numbers aren't complex, but having comparative numbers is useful. Perhaps you could merge it with the "current leadership" section? (again, I would debate whether it is needed. Perhaps you could switch to a notes method like what is used in the Canadian list?)
- I hope that helps. -- Scorpion0422 22:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I would prefer not to reduce the color to a single column, but will if you insist. I'm looking to keep this list as similar as possible to its sister list, List of current members of the Maryland House of Delegates, and frankly I don't particularly see the reason for one method being chosen over the other. With the current party composition, again, it mirrors the sister page, and also I think it's useful as a quick glance chart for those who don't take the time to read through the entire lead. But, again, if you insist, I can merge it somehow. Geraldk (talk) 00:41, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 14:54, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply] |
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*Mild oppose
Apologies for being late, but only just getting free enough in real life to hit the FLC backlog. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:14, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Support The Rambling Man (talk) 14:54, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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