Wikipedia:Featured and good topic removal candidates/2010 log

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Rock Steady

Rock Steady

5 articles

"Hey Baby"

"Hella Good"

"Underneath It All"

"Running"

I am nominating this topic for removal because it is missing the article Rock Steady Live, which I feel it should include - rst20xx (talk) 21:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

It's on a long list of things to do for me. I'll bump it to the top (attempt to get Rock Steady Live to GA status) if this removal candicy can be put on hold for a while. -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 20:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

As ever, I'm willing to leave this open/on hold so the article can take a crack at GA :) rst20xx (talk) 21:12, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I've started working on it. Please bear with me. -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 21:16, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I've finished. I'm listing the article at WP:GAN, although I know I'll need to get one of the GAs in this topic to FA status to attain 50% featured. Feedback would be gratefully received. -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 16:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

The requirement is for 33% featured, not 50%, so you should be OK with the existing two...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:25, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

The percentage increases this year to 50%. I might as well do the work now. -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 15:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Rock Steady Live just made GA. -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 13:58, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

OK, there is a supplementary nomination above. Can someone close this? -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 22:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

We can add the new article in this FTRC, no sup nom is needed - rst20xx (talk) 23:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

• Close with consensus to keep - and the Rock Steady Live article will be added. Sorry this took me so long to do - rst20xx (talk) 15:06, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

1994 Pacific hurricane season

1994 Pacific hurricane season

5 articles

Hurricane Emilia

Hurricane Gilma

Hurricane John

Hurricane Rosa

I am nominating this topic for removal because 3 months ago, when the 1973 Atlantic hurricane season was up for GTC, it was agreed that this topic needed a Timeline of the 1994 Pacific hurricane season FL adding. Further, it was agreed that a retention of three months would be set for this to be added. However this time has now passed and the article hasn't even been created - rst20xx (talk) 16:05, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

• Remove - obvious gap in the topic and the timeline hasn't even been created yet the entire retention has gone by. -MBK₀₀₄ 05:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Comment - Im not 100% convinced of a need for a timeline as theres virtually nothing to write about this season. The season only had one landfall and only 5 of the systems were Major hurricanes.Jason Rees (talk) 01:52, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Close as consensus to keep - per the discussions at the simultaneous 1998 nom - rst20xx (talk) 15:58, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

1998 Pacific hurricane season

1998 Pacific hurricane season

4 articles

Hurricane Isis

Hurricane Lester

Hurricane Madeline

I am nominating this topic for removal because 3 months ago, when the 1973 Atlantic hurricane season was up for GTC, it was agreed that this topic needed a Timeline of the 1998 Pacific hurricane season FL adding. Further, it was agreed that a retention of three months would be set for this to be added. However this time has now passed and the article hasn't even been created - rst20xx (talk) 16:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

• Remove - obvious gap in the topic and the timeline hasn't even been created yet the entire retention has gone by. -MBK₀₀₄ 05:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose - Per my comments belowJason Rees (talk) 20:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
• I oppose as well (brief coming out of retirement), as the co-nominator of the original topic. I don't think it should be forced that a season should have a timeline. The WPTC has had several debates on the usefulness of timelines, and each time there were strong opinions on both sides. As there isn't an absolute, clear agreement, I don't think they should be forced to be included in the topic. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:52, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
• Comment - I would be interested to hear Juliancolton's opinions on this, seeing as how he agreed to these retentions in the first place... rst20xx (talk) 01:16, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

  I do believe that timelines are useful and informative, and that ideally, all recent hurricane seasons should get one. However, as Hurricanehink says, there have been numerous debates regarding seasonal timelines, none of which have been conclusive. Indeed, if I recall correctly, a couple editors actually object to the creation of timelines outside of highly active hurricane seasons. Given that there is no consensus on whether or not season articles must be accompanied by these lists, I don't think it's appropriate to delist the topics at this time. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

  OK, in that case I guess I'm neutral on this. It just would have been a whole lot easier if you could have said that from the start... :/ :P rst20xx (talk) 12:34, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

  Well, in hindsight I think my support of the retention period was a bit rash... –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• Close with consensus to keep - rst20xx (talk) 15:50, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Demoted

State highways in Marquette County, Michigan

State highways in Marquette County, Michigan

10 articles

M-28

Business M-28

M-35

U.S. Route 41 in Michigan

Business US 41

M-94

M-95

M-553

M-554

The geographic basis for this topic is being deprecated. Instead, classification of topics by highway is preferred. Imzadi 1979 → 16:48, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I Object the removal. I do not think it is an issue. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home

The problem is M-28 is up for FT, and this is in the way as it duplicates a fair bit. It's one or the other, and in choices like that I believe that the roadway should take precedence over the county. Reluctant Remove. - The Bushranger _{Return fire}^{Flank speed} 23:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose remove. I think that the two topics can exist simultaneously. If the new "style" is to do articles by highway instead of geographical location, well so be it. But this list can still be featured. There is lots of overlap for, say, video game series or TV series/seasons/shows. This topic is well defined and can stay. —Goodtimber (walk/talk) 04:58, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
• Remove - I think this one is slightly better but consensus seems to be against it, and we certainly can't have both. Goodtimber makes various assertions that the levels of overlap here are comparable to in other topics. That is absolutely not the case. 75% of the M-28 topic is also in this one. The remaining article is under 9k long. If this is not "excessive overlap", I don't know what is. The video games overlap he alludes to is that there is a 50% overlap between the Half-Life 2 titles and The Orange Box topics, but the smaller of those two topics having 45k of unique articles (i.e. 5 times as much). Furthermore, both the Valve topics seem like very natural constructions, whereas these is some debate as to whether this one is "artificial". Finally, no TV topic has more than one article overlapping with another TV topic - rst20xx (talk) 14:26, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
• Remove - The nominator summed it up perfectly. Dough4872 03:42, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
• I'm one of those editors who thinks the "state highway by county" topics are a bit artificial, with the reasoning that it requires the creation of an article - in this case List of state highways in Marquette County, Michigan - that likely would not exist if it wasn't needed to "create" the topic. OTOH, I'm also one of those editors that's a fan of topics based around a single highway, like the proposed M-28 topic and the existing NY 20N and NY 20SY topics in New York. I see all of those as natural topics in that they bring together related articles by way of an already existing article that should, without question, exist. Grouping by route also just makes more sense and is more appealing to me than grouping by an area such as a county. Thus, I say this topic should be removed to clear the way for the M-28 one to be created. – TMF 22:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - rst20xx (talk) 11:46, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

The Legend of Zelda titles

The Legend of Zelda titles

14 articles

The Legend of Zelda

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

A Link to the Past

Link's Awakening

Ocarina of Time

Majora's Mask

Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages

The Wind Waker

Four Swords Adventures

The Minish Cap

Twilight Princess

Phantom Hourglass

Spirit Tracks

I am nominating this topic for removal because the article The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks should have been a GA by 7 March. Additionally, I am a little unsure that this topic should exclude the spin-offs and remakes, as these are after all Legend of Zelda titles - rst20xx (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Remove - Might as well. This would be a huge topic if we have all of the spin-offs and remakes in it. And there are a lot! GamerPro64 (talk) 21:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

  It'd add an extra 9, to bring the total to 23. Plus The Legend of Zelda (2010 video game) needs adding soon anyway, for 24. One of the 9 is a GA but all the others would need work - rst20xx (talk) 00:30, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• Close with consensus to demote - only one vote, but this is an unambiguous fail of the criteria - rst20xx (talk) 21:05, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Virginia Tech Hokies bowl games

Virginia Tech Hokies bowl games

23 articles

1947 Sun Bowl

1966 Liberty Bowl

1968 Liberty Bowl

1981 Peach Bowl (January)

1984 Independence Bowl

1986 Peach Bowl

1993 Independence Bowl

1994 Gator Bowl

1995 Sugar Bowl (December)

1996 Orange Bowl (December)

1998 Gator Bowl

1998 Music City Bowl

2000 Sugar Bowl

2001 Gator Bowl

2002 Gator Bowl

2002 San Francisco Bowl

2003 Insight Bowl

2005 Sugar Bowl

2006 Gator Bowl

2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl

2008 Orange Bowl

2009 Orange Bowl

I am nominating this topic for removal because the article 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl should have been peer reviewed and added to the topic by March 4, and by March 31 (ten days' time) this article should be a GA and in the topic - rst20xx (talk) 23:07, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Demote topic. It isn't complete anymore, unfortunately. —Goodtimber (walk/talk) 23:53, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - only one vote, but this is an unambiguous fail of the criteria - rst20xx (talk) 21:05, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games

Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games

7 articles

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

List of champions

Previous FTRC: Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates/Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games/archive1

Unfortunately I am nominating this topic for removal a second time because the topic's retention period has lapsed with regards to bringing 2009 ACC Championship Game to GA (criteria 3a) on or before 5 March 2010. -MBK₀₀₄ 03:30, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

• Remove - topic has failed its retention, simple as that - rst20xx (talk) 18:53, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
• Remove - no longer meets the criteria. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 22:02, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - rst20xx (talk) 21:04, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty

8 articles

History

Society

Culture

Economy

Technology

Architecture

List of emperors

I'm listing this for FT removal because unfortunately, it appears Architecture of the Song Dynasty has been delisted as a GA, which I believe makes Song Dynasty ineligible for featured topic. Hopefully, this will spur interest in bringing the article back up to GA status, but in the meantime... — Hunter Kahn 07:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Comment It was delisted on December 18, so it has until March 18 to get back up. --PresN 16:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

• My mistake. Should I withdraw the nomination, or should somebody else do it? — Hunter Kahn 16:53, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

• I think, given that 18th March is only 22 days away, we may as well just leave this open until then, just making sure that the demotion does not actually occur before the 18th - rst20xx (talk) 17:36, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

• Remove - 3 days to go and no work has been done - rst20xx (talk) 14:22, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
• Remove, time's up. Bencherlite^Talk 00:58, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
• Remove -MBK₀₀₄ 03:20, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - a shame, considering the great rescue mission this topic went through when it first was up for removal in September - rst20xx (talk) 17:19, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Powderfinger albums

Powderfinger albums

9 articles

Parables for Wooden Ears

Double Allergic

Internationalist

Odyssey Number Five

Vulture Street

These Days: Live in Concert

Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994–2000

Dream Days at the Hotel Existence ^(subtopic)

I am nominating this very old topic for removal because Powderfinger released a new album in November, Golden Rule. This album's article should have been GA and added to the topic by 13 February, however no work has been done to save it. Unfortunately Giggy, who initially nominated the topic, and Spebi, who nominated some of the articles (I haven't checked them all) have both retired from editing - rst20xx (talk) 14:07, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

• Delist - No longer meets the criteria. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 18:50, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - only one person replied to this, but it's really uncontroversial - rst20xx (talk) 15:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

World Series of Poker Europe

World Series of Poker Europe

3 articles

2007 World Series of Poker Europe

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

I am nominating this topic for removal because the article 2009 World Series of Poker Europe should have been included as an FL by January 1st - rst20xx (talk) 15:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Give me a day or two to think about this, but right now I can't argue with removing it. The only question I have is do I want to make the effort to work on the 2009 WSOPE?---Balloonman ^{NO! I'm Spartacus!} 19:24, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

notifying wp poker of this---Balloonman ^{NO! I'm Spartacus!} 19:24, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Sure - rst20xx (talk) 01:53, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

• Comment - 2 weeks and nothing's happened. Balloonman, does this mean you're not going to try to save the topic? rst20xx (talk) 14:37, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Close as demote - this clearly fails the criteria, the 2009 article should have been added by now, and no work has been done on it since this FTRC started - rst20xx (talk) 15:32, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Spider-Man films

Spider-Man films

4 articles

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 3

I am nominating this topic for removal because Spider-Man 2 was delisted as a GA over three months ago - rst20xx (talk) 15:53, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

• Delist - No longer meets the GT criteria. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:42, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
• Remove - there has been no effort made to retain the topic even after the article was delisted as a GA (and that delist was after seven days with no response or effort) -MBK₀₀₄ 08:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
• Remove - per above. —Aaroncrick (talk) 05:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Remove - per ThinkBlue. —Terrence and Phillip 00:31, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - rst20xx (talk) 14:15, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

X-Men films

X-Men films

5 articles

X-Men

X2: X-Men United

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I am nominating this topic for removal as X-Men: The Last Stand needed to be a GA by 11 December - rst20xx (talk) 01:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

• Delist - No longer meets the GT criteria. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 20:58, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
• Delist - It's been a month and no one's even signed up to re-GA it, no need to hold off any longer. --PresN 21:20, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - rst20xx (talk) 00:44, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Seasons of Degrassi: The Next Generation

Seasons of Degrassi: The Next Generation

9 articles

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

I am nominating this topic for removal because Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 8) needed to be a featured by 30 November, and it's still not. (Also, Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 9) should have been added to the topic waaaay back in July!, but it did receive the PR it needs to be added, so this is trivial) - rst20xx (talk) 01:16, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

• Delist doesn't meet the requirements, obviously, failed retention, yadda, yadda. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
• Delist - per Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 22:30, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Comment - Degrassi season 10 now has a retention [1] - rst20xx (talk) 13:22, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to demote - back to 99 topics, ha - rst20xx (talk) 00:14, 9 January 2010 (UTC)