Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Baleen whales

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[edit] Baleen whales

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Baleen whale	Bowhead whale - Right whale - Fin Whale - Sei Whale - Bryde's Whale - Blue Whale - Minke Whale - Balaenoptera omurai - Humpback Whale - Gray Whale - Pygmy Right Whale

I don't know much about whales, but this topic looks pretty together, and it includes 5 FAs. The Weak points are Baleen whale and Balaenoptera omurai, but I think this is justified because the former just serves the role of a list for the subject, and the latter is a newly found species that has no more information to put in an article. --Arctic Gnome 00:49, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

• Conditional support. I think the main topic should have a bit more references and more content first. Hurricanehink (talk) 00:55, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
• Conditional support per hink. — Deckiller 09:05, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
• Object Humpback whale does not meet current FA criteria; Right whale barely passed a recent WP:FAR, the articles are inconsistently named (is whale capitalized or not?), so besides the three strong FAs, the rest of the topic is not in good shape. Why not point out to Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans how close this could be to a featured topic, and encourage them to bring the other articles to at least GA standard, and cite the older FAs before they come up at WP:FAR? The topics that are legitimate *featured* topics got that way because of involved Projects or editors (usually one or two; for example, Saffron) - has the Cetacean Project been consulted about improving this category ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I don't think it makes much sense to say that an article is unacceptable because it "barely passed a recent WP:FAR". That implies that even being featured isn't good enough; they have to be strongly featured. That item aside, you have a point about talking to WikiProject Cetaceans; I'll see what they have to say. I agree that most nominations should come from the Wikiprojects. I was just trying to find some articles that might already be featured so that we had a respectable list of FTs to start out with. --Arctic Gnome 17:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Further, it is not required that articles be FAs - only that "several" be of featured standard. The rest have to be A-class or GAs. For this topic:
    • Featured Articles: Right whale, Fin Whale, Sei Whale, Blue Whale
    • Not rated: Bowhead whale, Balaenoptera omurai, Bryde's Whale, Minke Whale, Humpback Whale, Pygmy Right Whale
    • B-Class: Baleen whale, Gray Whale
  • Oppose - Baleen whale and Balaenoptera omurai not good enough. I apreciate Baleen whale is partly a list and partly an article, but it needs references (especially for the taxanomic classifcation). Balaenoptera omurai also lack references. Bryde's Whale, Minke Whale, Gray Whale and Pygmy Right Whale look good enough (I've nominated them for GA). Tompw (talk) 20:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Fail --Arctic Gnome 23:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)