Wikipedia talk:Featured list removal candidates

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[edit] Red links

The removal of Indian national cricket captains for having too many redlinks appears to contradict one of the purposes of lists: as a mechanism for identifying articles that need writing. Redlinks are, therefore, no indication of the quality of a list, which needs to be comprehensive irrespective of its subject coverage elsewhere in Wikipedia. —Theo (Talk) 08:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Too many redlinks is a problem. Some redlinks is not. "Featured" means Wikipedia's best. Featured lists have to be useful, and that means linking them to articles that expound the subject in greater detail. If Indian national cricket captains were re-nominated now, it would be shot on sight:) jguk 09:02, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

jguk's points are valid ones. Around two-fifths of the internal wikilinks (primarily in the second half of the list) are redlinks. See Wikipedia:What is a featured list, point #s 2 and 5 for how to improve the list. One of the main uses of a list here at Wikipedia is to thematically collate related articles according to at least one, and usually a few secondary, common elements. The list is laid out well, but the redlinks tend to invalidate a large portion of the usefulness of the list.

→ P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 09:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

To amplify: the criterion of "usefulness" includes the requirement that an article has a "large majority of links to existing articles (blue links)". A list composed of redlinks is useful in highlighting areas were our coverage is weak, but not so useful for a reader. On the other hand, tactically delinking entries to avoid red links is also frowned upon. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Major changes to featured lists

Where would be the best place to discuss whether a major change to a featured list improved it, or made it worse (possible grounds for demotion), other than the talk page of the list itself? Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 14:28, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Quite likely in this page, since there's no review mechanism for FLs as there is for featured articles. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 08:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)