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John Douglas edit

Featured topic

5 articles

List of his church restorations, amendments and furniture

List of his houses and associated buildings

List of his non-ecclesiastical and non-residential works

This is nominated as a featured topic as it consists of a comprehensive account of the life and works of the architect John Douglas. All the articles are featured. If successful it would form the first FT in an Arts and Architecture section. Please help with the creation of the template and the book.

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--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:26, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Made the box for you. Interesting topic! --Pres N 18:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support - ~~though maybe the topic should be called "Lists of works of John Douglas"? As this topic contains the lists of his works, not the articles on the works themselves~~ - rst20xx (talk) 18:43, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The problem about that, as I see it, would be that if that were the title of the lead article, when you click on to it you would be into his biography, and not to a list.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 19:56, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~But you don't go to a work either, do you?~~ rst20xx (talk) 01:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not as such. But if you take the section of the lead article entitled Significant works plus the subsection on Styles, I estimate that about half the article concentrates on his works; the lists just give more details.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:15, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Great topic with excellent articles/lists. Well done! Pyrrhus16 19:58, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support The last list made me realize this topic was being worked on, very cool! Staxringold _talk^contribs 05:57, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, though I can't immediately see the problem with having the title as simply "John Douglas", and the lists piped as "List of his new churches", etc. Someone looking at the box will get the point very quickly that he's an architect. Bencherlite ^Talk 16:28, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I like it! Done.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:21, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, having checked out all the other John Douglases, I don't think any of them will merit a topic, so I agree with this change (slightly obsessive I know, but IMO necessary) rst20xx (talk) 00:40, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help! I haven't dealt with the book yet; can anyone advise how to do this. Thanks.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:21, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Done, but someone might want to check whether it needs more categories. Bencherlite^Talk 17:28, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - That's amazing; thanks a million. I'd no idea this sort of thing could be done. WP is a phenomenon.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:59, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great job on a topic in an underrepresented area in WP:FT. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:33, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Close with consensus to promote - rst20xx (talk) 14:51, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]