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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 not promoted 15:22, 26 April 2008.

List of islets of Caroline Island

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User:Viriditas recently suggested that I nominate this as a featured list; it was created in support of Caroline Island, which has been a featured article since 2006. -- Sethant (talk) 20:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Gary King (talk · contribs)
  • Comment What's with the strange background colors? Gary King (talk) 20:50, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wikipedia often uses background colors to create contrast and enhance readability (see the top of this page, for instance), and that's what has been done with this list. -- Sethant (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • List of Presidents of the United States makes a great use of background colors. For this list, I assumed that colors were related (i.e. one color indiciated something) but from your reply, it seems like that is not the case. I think that would decrease readability rather than increase it. At the very least, I would suggest to use a lighter color. Some off the top of my head are #eef and #fee, which I believe are light and 'warm' colors.
      • I would also consider adding headers to the last two columns that don't have one.
      • Left-align the second last column with the large paragraphs. Gary King (talk) 21:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from - MILK'S FAVORITE COOKIE (Talk)

- MILK'S FAVORITE COOKIE (Talk) 21:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
  • I'd prefer to see the title of the list in the lead, bolded, rather than the current opening.
  • Image caption for lead is a fragment so lose the full stop. And check all other images.
  • Link islet somewhere.
  • None of the lead is cited, for example the claim of 39 islets. Can this be proved?
  • "the most distinguishing feature of each islet" - according to whom?
  • "speak to prior human habitation," - perhaps my BritEng is the problem here, but I guess we'd say "prove" or "hint to", definitely not "speak to".
  • Convert the areas from hectares to acres (or square miles, whatever) so the Imperial-ists can understand.
  • 18m, 14m , these should be converted to Imperial too.
  • " only abour 300 m " - typo, use the convert template.
  • Motu links to a dab page.
  • Why the occasional link to 10^4, 10^5 etc for the areas?
  • Why is the table multi-coloured? Does it mean something?
  • Some of the entries appear left-aligned, some are centrally aligned, it should be consistent.

I have to oppose at the moment, it's a confusing list, it has a few MOS issues as above. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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