Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates

Removing featured lists in Wikipedia

This page is for the review and improvement of featured lists that may no longer meet the featured list criteria. FLs should be kept at current standards, regardless of when they were promoted. Any objections raised in the review must be actionable.

The FLC director, Giants2008, or his delegates, PresN and Hey man im josh, determine the exact timing of the process for each nomination. Nominations will last at least 14 days, and longer where changes are ongoing and it seems useful to continue the process. For a nomination to be kept, consensus must be reached that it still meets the criteria. Consensus is built among reviewers and nominators; the delegates determine whether there is consensus. A nomination will be removed from the list, archived and added to Former featured lists if, in the judgment of the director who considers a nomination and its reviews:

actionable objections have not been resolved; or
consensus to delist has been reached; or
insufficient information has been provided by reviewers to judge whether the criteria have been met.

Nominations may be closed earlier than the allotted two weeks if, in the judgment of the FLRC delegate, the list in the nomination:

has a clear consensus to merge or redirect to another article or list. This consensus may be shown in Articles for deletion, a discussion on the article's talk page, a discussion on the relevant WikiProject(s), or other community venues that present a tangible consensus to merge or redirect the article; or
contains a clear copyright violation and removal of the copyrighted material would severely degrade the quality of the list.

Do not nominate lists that have recently been promoted (such complaints should have been brought up during the candidacy period as featured list candidates) or lists that have recently survived a removal attempt – such nominations are likely to be removed summarily.

A bot will update the list talk page after the list has been kept or the nomination has been archived; the delay in bot processing can range from minutes to several days, and the {{FLRC}} template should remain on the talk page until the bot updates {{ArticleHistory}}. If a nomination is delisted, editors should take adequate time to work on resolving issues before re-nominating at Featured list candidates.

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Nomination procedure

Place {{subst:FLRC}} on the talk page of the nominated list.
From the FLRC template, click on the red "initiate the nomination" link. You will see pre-loaded information; leave that text. If you are unsure how to complete a nomination, please post to the FLRC talk page for assistance.
Below the preloaded title, write your reason for nominating the list, sign with ~~~~ and save the page. Please note which of the featured list criteria that the list fails to meet.
Place {{Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/name of nominated article/archiveNumber}} at the top of the list of nominees on this page by first copying the above, clicking "edit" on the top of the page, and then pasting, making sure to add the name of the nominated article.
Notify relevant parties by adding {{subst:FLRCMessage|ArticleName|archive=# of archive page}} (for example, {{subst:FLRCMessage|List of Presidents of the United States|archive=1}}) to relevant talk pages (insert article name). Relevant parties include main contributors to the article (identifiable through article stats script), the editor who originally nominated the article for Featured List status (identifiable through the Featured List Candidate link in the Article Milestones), and any relevant WikiProjects (identifiable through the talk page banners, but there may be other Projects that should be notified). Leave a message at the top of the FLRC indicating whom you have notified and that notifications have been completed.

Nominations for removal

Bleach season 2

Notified: Sephiroth BCR, WikiProject Anime and manga, WikiProject Television

This FLRC follows the delisting of Bleach season 1 for many of the same reasons as that list: missing key sections (namely production and reception), poor sourcing (too many primary sources or lower-quality sources such as Amazon), and overall not aligning with present-day expectations for season articles. The original nominator is inactive; please feel free to notify anyone in a better position to help. RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:53, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delist: The article clearly does not meet the current standards required to qualify as a featured article. The articles of seasons 3–10 and List of Bleach episodes, which are also featured articles, should be delisted as well. Xexerss (talk) 02:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that seasons 3–10 should be delisted in their current state, but I'm taking them one by one as I've never seen a bundled nomination. (Since they were promoted individually, they should probably be delisted individually.) RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:45, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove, perfect example of a season article that doesn't belong at GA, let alone FL or FA. TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:55, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove per nom and all above. Would also support further delisting of seasons 3-10 and the list of episodes article as mentioned above. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:05, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of counties in Maryland

Notified: WikiProject Maryland, WikiProject U.S. counties, nominator is long-inactive

2007 promotion, fails FLCR 3b with several citation needed tags and an unsourced section. Also fails 5c; flag and seal should not be sortable and the former counties table does not have column and row headers. Talk page concerns went unanswered. charlotte ^👸♥ 03:12, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the table accessibility issues that you've pointed out.

Remaining problems:

Sourcing issues.
The lead map, and the flags and seal images in the table require alt text. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:58, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend in general removing the FIPS code column, which is meaningless to almost everyone and makes the table too wide for most screens. Mattximus (talk) 15:12, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]