Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates

"WP:FLRC" redirects here and is not to be confused with Wikipedia:Flagged revisions.

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 A bot will update the list talk page after the list has been kept or the nomination has been archived; the delay in bot processing can range from minutes to several days, and the {{FLRC}} template should remain on the talk page until the bot updates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.  – Table of Contents – Closing instructions

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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

Seinfeld season 2

Notified: Music2611, WikiProject Television, WikiProject Comedy

Following discussions here and here, there seems to be agreement that TV seasons should go through GAN/FAC instead of FLC. The latter discussion suggested bulk nominations to remove season lists. This is the first such nomination; it covers Seinfeld season 2 and season 3 (FLRC link). The FLRC nomination for both lists will be contained here.

Aside from the shift away from FLC, these season articles are heavily reliant on primary sources, raising issues with WP:NOT and WP:INDISCRIMINATE, and the season 3 reception section should be expanded. If these issues are addressed, I see a reasonable path to GA for these articles. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:40, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Delist per the usual reasons. TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:19, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Seinfeld season 3

Notified: Gman124, WikiProject Television, WikiProject Comedy

The discussion for this nomination is happening here. Do not leave comments on this page. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:44, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

List of counties in Maine

Notified: Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine, Wikipedia:WikiProject United States, User talk:Tompw

Article was promoted to FL in 2007 and seems to have been all but abandoned since.

• Begins with "this is a list", which has been discouraged in lists for ages.
• Multiple {{page needed}} issues throughout.
• Census.gov link is not formatted properly, and population data do not appear to have been updated for the 2020s.
• Is seven footnotes enough for a FL?

Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:07, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

• Delist A lot of issues. There isn't even a date for the population numbers. Subjectively I think the FIPS code is not worth the space for the column and should be removed. Wording is overall poor (see the sentence: "...created was York County, created as..."). Unsourced columns (all the etymologies and origins), and missing a density column which would be very insightful. It would be a lot of work to get this up to standard. Mattximus (talk) 14:45, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

• Delist per User:TenPoundHammer and User:Mattximus. This could be a very interesting list, but clearly needs a lot of work, as large parts of the table appear to be unsourced. The prose is also awkward and should go through a few rounds of editing. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:55, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

30 Rock season 4

Notified: ThinkBlue, Staxringold, Courcelles, WikiProject Television

I am nominating this for featured list removal because not only does it not meet the current MOS:TVPRODUCTION standards (namely the omition of the Production and development sections), but season articles also not really considered FLs. See also the related FLRCs for seasons 1, 2 and 3. Please note that this is the final remaining 30 Rock season FL. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:35, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Comment – While not stated anywhere definitively (see here), maybe this should wait to prevent too many active nominations by one person at one time? Otherwise, anyone who might object to these nominations might not get a fair chance to respond. I typically restrict myself to the FLC guidelines (two nominations, and only after one has significant support). RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:22, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

That could work. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:23, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

I'm going to make a talk page post about this to get a consensus, since this episode list thing is a little different than most removals in that it looks to be a long series of removals for the same reason. --PresN 21:42, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Given the delisting of seasons 2 and 3, this nomination should now proceed. I support delisting due to the lack of a solid production section, on top of the fact that season articles should go to GAN/FAC. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:57, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Delist, per the usual reasons. TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:18, 17 June 2025 (UTC)