Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of Australian television

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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 10+ days, enough support, no opposition. Promote, kudos to all involved. Daniel 03:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

A comprehensive timeline regarding Australian television, that lists important station launches, programs, major television events, and technological advancements. The timeline was constructed using various featured lists as guidelines. Stickeylabel 02:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

• Support, wow, you've done a brilliant job at sourcing and compiling all the information. Sebi _[talk] 02:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support very comprehensive and every line is cited. ~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 02:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
• Comments
  • Y Done A few more images, if at all possible, would help.
  • Y Done Maybe reduce linking some? Having 2 links to Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (Australia) rather close to each others does not look good. Most station are also repeatedly linked.
• Circeus 02:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. I have now fixed the article accordingly by adding a few more images, and reducing the duplication of wikilinks. Stickeylabel 03:18, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

• Support • Clearly a lot of hard work has been done to create such a useful article like this. Perfectly constructed and well cited. Smacca 08:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
• Comment (not sure if you can do this but anyway.. :P) - I can't really support or oppose since I contributed, but it's great to hear such positive feedback. Stickeylabel did well to clean up my mess. timgraham 13:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
• Strong support. Nice and comprehensive. If only all of wikipedia could be like this. I do have a comment however, which is simply related to the title: it's referred to as the "timeline" of Australian television, however it's more of a Chronology, as a timeline generally indicates to me a graph or a graphical display. Could that maybe be changed? Or at least discussed? I'm completely in support of the promotion irrespective, but I think it'd be more appropriately titled "Chronology of Australian television" instead of "Timeline of Australian television". --linca^linca 23:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Lincalinca, and thanks for the support. With regards to the title of the article, "Timeline of Australian television" was chosen due to other lists, such as Timeline of chemistry (Featured List) and Timeline of Australian history, of which both are in a similar format. In my opinion "timeline" is more appropriate and it also is consistant with other Australian timelines on Wikipedia. Stickeylabel 00:13, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Understood. I just consider the term "timeline" to be a graphical representation of a chronology, but obviously, this argument hasn't been struck before. I'm happy to leave it as it is, but was simply throwing the idea out there, based on the more literal use of each term. BTW: I've just made some very minor adjustments in the article's lead (added the template and some minor copyediting of links and such). I hope you don't mind. --linca^linca 00:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

• Support Well done, and a great idea too. I hope to see similar timeline articles for other countries in the future, especially as well done as this one. -- Ned Scott 05:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)