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List of Skull and Bones members

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I've completed the bulk of the work on a major cleanup of this list, substituting reliable sources for conspiracy webpages, adding names, taking out dubious ones. I'd like some suggestions as to what else I can do to further improve this list beyond this, and ideally bring this list closer to featured list status. More pictures? Text? Different organization of the names?

Thanks, Gamaliel (talk) 18:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Found5dollar comments: This is one of my first peer reviews, but I saw that the list is similar to various lists I have worked on and thought I could help. First off, wow, that is an amazing amount of information you have in the article and the sheer amount of referencing is awe inspiring. here are some suggestions on how to make this list better:

As the list currently stands, it would be tough to find out if a specific person was in the society unless you knew the time period in which they attended. My big suggestion to solve this would be to switch the bulleted list you currently have to a sortable table. This way people could be searched by name, date in the club, perhaps birth and death dates, or even position held. An article I have been working on with a similar structure to what I am suggesting is United States Congress members killed or wounded in office.
Along the same vein as my last suggestion, I think the organization of the list might work better if it was something along the lines of "Founding Members," "Known members," and "Supposed Members" to greater differentiate when the roster of membership stopped being published.
There is so much more you can, and should, add to the introduction of the article. This paragraph or two should sum up the entire list. How many members have there been in total? How many were women? How many became President? Congressmen? Supreme Court Justices? Governors? You may also wan tot quickly explain what Skull and Bones is.
I would add a small section explaining the history of Skull and Bones, so that someone who stumbles across this page can learn the basics of the society.
When someone is listed as a congressman or senator it may be nice to wikilink to the district or list of senators from that district that they represented.
It should also be stated the number of peopel inducted each year (roughly) or how many people ar ein the society at anyone time. The high and lows of this could be included in the introduction.
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Hope this helps! --Found5dollar (talk) 16:59, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]