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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 User:Scorpion0422 22:30, 2 December 2008 [1].

List of universities in Atlantic Canada

This is a bit of an unusual list. Initially, there was a separate list of universities for the following provinces: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. However, these lists each contained less than ten items, so they could not be featured. After nominating the lists of Canadian universities as a featured topic at Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Universities in Canada, it has been suggested that these lists should be merged together so that there is a total of more than ten items to let it be featured.

Furthermore, since this is a list of universities from four provinces grouped together under the category of "Atlantic Canada", there isn't any other official connection between the lists of universities beyond this geographical characteristic. Therefore, in the lead, the first paragraph simply points out that this is a list of universities grouped together from three provinces. After that, the next three paragraphs discuss their respective universities. The reason that it has been organized in this manner is so that the lead doesn't only contain one sentence or two. Gary King (talk) 04:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Despite the unusual nature of the list, I personally prefer this format over having permanently stubby pages and sub-sections. If I was doing preliminary research about Canadian universities I would find this kind of list very useful. Here's hoping you can get this through and get your FT. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) I echo Artic Gnome in that this format is much more aesthetically pleasing.

  • "There are four universities in the Canadian province of New Brunswick" "There are 11 universities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia." The first para of the lead has already mentioned that New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are provinces.
  • Overlinking of Atlantic Canada.
  • Other than than the first sentence, am I correct in assuming that the 4th para of the lead is sourced to that one ebook?
  • Spell out AUCC in all the references.
  • "Dalhouse University has the largest student enrollment in Nova Scotia."
  • "University student enrollment in Nova Scotia"
  • "Atlantic Canada is a region in Canada comprising of four" "comprising"-->that comprises. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:23, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All done Gary King (talk) 01:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • comments. Can you change the letters in the key to be bold instead of italic, so they match the table headers (making it easier to spot the correlation).
Also i think the article overall (which i agree is much better as the merge) would look better if the tables had the same column widths. Can you pad them so this is the case? (I do it using nb-spaces, but i'm sure there is a better way). Then it is much easier to scroll down and compare the entries from seperate provinces, and would flow better. Will support if those are done, as the rest complies with criteria.Yobmod (talk) 08:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All done Gary King (talk) 15:54, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
then i Support.Yobmod (talk) 15:12, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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