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Feedback begins on February 1, 2008. Voting begins on February 11, 2008. Voting is conducted by naming the five lists (in order) that you feel are most deserving of being recognized as the list of the day. Both voting and feedback continue through the twentieth day of the month. Those who do wish to participate should name the 5 lists that they think are most deserving of being described as List of the Day from the list of candidates. Individuals who have nominated more than 5 lists for a given month may also name a second list of 5 and those nominating more than 10 may name a third list of 5. Please name your selections in order.

Voting

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The following discussion is a concluded List of the Day and List of the Month vote. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was Third LOTM is List of longest suspension bridges. In the voting, support was shown for a total of 19 list and there are 31 days in March. As a result the top twelve lists will make two list of the day appearances. Those list are List of longest suspension bridge spans, as well as (alphabetically) Goldfrapp discography, Gwen Stefani discography, Indianapolis Colts seasons, List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes, List of counties in Kentucky, List of English words containing Q not followed by U, List of London Underground stations, List of polio survivors, List of retired Pacific hurricane names, List of tallest buildings in Boston, and Milestone home runs by Barry Bonds. Other February 2008 LOTDs are List of Archbishops of Canterbury, List of Canadian provinces and territories by population, List of Indian state and union territory capitals, List of Indianapolis Colts first-round draft picks, List of ISS spacewalks, List of Kansas birds, and List of WWE Champions. It is worth noting that absent a late ballot there was a tie for first between List of polio survivors and List of tallest buildings in Boston with List of longest suspension bridge spans immediately behind.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 00:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Vote below anytime between February 11th and February 20th:

1. Milestone home runs by Barry Bonds, 2. List of polio survivors, 3. Indianapolis Colts seasons, 4. List of longest suspension bridge spans, 5. List of Canadian provinces and territories by population. --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
1. List of English words containing Q not followed by U, 2. List of retired Pacific hurricane names, 3. List of ISS Space Walks, 4. List of Canadian provinces by population, 5. List of WWE Champions. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:15, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
1. List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes, 2. List of longest suspension bridge spans, 3. List of retired Pacific hurricane names, 4. List of polio survivors, 5. List of Kansas birds Collectonian (talk) 03:50, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
1. List of polio survivors, 2. List of tallest buildings in Boston, 3. List of counties in Kentucky, 4. List of longest suspension bridge spans, 5. List of Archbishops of Canterbury --Orlady (talk) 05:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC) (I reserve the right to change my votes if some of the other articles are improved before voting ends.)
1. Indianapolis Colts seasons, 2. List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes, 3. List of Indianapolis Colts first-round draft picks, 4. List of Kansas birds, 5. List of ISS spacewalks -- HoosierStateTalk 20:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
1. List of tallest buildings in Boston, 2. List of longest suspension bridge spans, 3. List of counties in Kentucky, 4. List of polio survivors, 5. Indianapolis Colts seasons -- Rai-me 01:13, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
1. Goldfrapp discography, 2. Gwen Stafani discography, 3. List of tallest buildings in Boston, 4. List of longest suspension bridge spans, 5. Milestone home runs by Barry Bonds -- —Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 02:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
1. List of London Underground stations, 2. List of longest suspension bridges, 3. List of polio survivors, 4. List of tallest building in Boston, 5. List of Indian state and union territory capitals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.146.185.160 (talk) 04:46, 22 February, 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is a concluded vote. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 00:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Feedback

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The following discussion is a concluded List of the Day and List of the Month discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 00:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Comments and feedback are optional. Comments on your selections are welcome. The feedback received here will be useful in determining our set of Lists of the Day.

A sentence in the intro says: "The historical concept and definition of sexual orientation varies and has changed greatly over time; for example the word "gay" wasn't used to describe sexual orientation until the mid 20th century." I'd like to see an inline source citation (or two) to support that sentence. --Orlady (talk) 02:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

In fact, I don't think the word "gay" was used to describe sexual orientation until the 1970s, but I'm not a reliable source. --Orlady (talk) 02:44, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I revised the caption. --Orlady (talk) 20:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I think "misdiagnosis" was incorrect terminology. I've revised the heading and text. Does this work for you now? --Orlady (talk) 23:01, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Yep. That works. :) Collectonian (talk) 01:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I cut down on the amount of bold. HoosierStateTalk 02:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Woops, it aired in both languages. Cleaning up the note for consistency.Collectonian (talk) 03:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
The opening and ending themes seemed to have remained in Japanese with subtitles for those languages I can see.Collectonian (talk) 03:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
As stated in the article, the names Adolph and Israel were retired for political considerations due to connections to Adolf Hitler and the country Israel. Also, the article says that several names have been retired due to pronunciation ambiguity or a socially unacceptable meaning in another language. The cited sources (which are governmental reports) indicate that the reasons for some of the retirements are not known. However, I imagine that "Knut" was one of the names that was retired due to pronunciation ambiguity. --Orlady (talk) 04:28, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Actually, I was talking about Fico, Fefa, Paka, and Ioke.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
As I said, the cited sources (which are governmental reports) indicate that the reasons for some of the retirements are not known. --Orlady (talk) 02:37, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Paka and Ioke never made landfall, but both passed near small islands, where they caused great damage. Fefa and Fico caused damage in Hawaii. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Can the article be revised to say that? (With sources, of course) --Orlady (talk) 04:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
No, I don't think so. Users would know that if the building is on the Boston list, then it is obviously about the Boston building and not a building in another city. Resolutions such as the above are appropriate for individual building pages, but aren't needed for a list. Cheers, Rai-me 21:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
The links are already provided in the list, so it was felt (not by me) that including them in captions would be overlinking. However, I would be open to adding them. Rai-me 21:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Can you point me to a discussion of overlinking in this article?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:19, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I cannot. It didn't occur on this list's FLC; there was discussion of removing linking in captions at an FLC listed around the same as that of List of tallest buildings in Providence, and seeing the discussion, I removed wikilinks from captions of the Providence list. It has since "stuck" for every building list. However, as linking seems to very common in FLs, with no complaints of overlinking, I see no reason why they shouldn't be added. I will add them now, and begin a discussion at WP:SKY relating to this. Thanks, and sorry about any confusion -- Rai-me 03:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
See above comment relating to the John Hancock Center. Cheers, Rai-me 21:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I added that detail to the article. The lead already had a link to List of tallest buildings in the United States, but my addition includes yet another link. --Orlady (talk) 17:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
The reason that this was not originally included is beacuse there are so many taller buildings that are under construction, proposed, and approved, so any assumption of future rank would lilely be inaccurate. However, I think that Orlady's addition is appropriate. Rai-me 21:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Remember that in historic times "Bath" most often referred to a public bath or spa (since private baths and spas did not exist), and locations with hot springs often were called "Bath" (as in Bath, England, which city may be the source of the word "bath"). Thus, a place with medicinal springs could be described as a "bath". As it happens, there are places in Tennessee and Alabama named "Bath Springs," but apparently not in Kentucky. One of the springs in Bath County, KY, was formerly called Olympian Springs (it's now Mud Lick),[1]. Salt Lick, Kentucky, also in that county, probably is named for a mineral spring. --Orlady (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Interesting, yes, but a challenging cartographic feat verging on original research. Tracing the historical changes of county boundaries is a major focus for some genealogical researchers... There is a series of historical county maps for Kentucky (you can even watch an animated version of the changes) at this website; I'll add that to the list article as an external link. --Orlady (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
You don't need to be. I added a link to Full communion.--Orlady (talk) 18:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Have you ever heard of Henry VIII? Seriously, the existing link to English Reformation covers the story well. However, I removed the words "political situations." --Orlady (talk) 04:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Several links added. However, I did not link "aegis"; it's a word, not a term needing to be linked in this article. (People unfamiliar with the word can look in a dictionary.) --Orlady (talk) 04:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Citation added --Orlady (talk) 04:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I removed the periods. Is that what you had in mind? --Orlady (talk) 04:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 Done HoosierStateTalk 02:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm bothered by (1) the somewhat voyeuristic nature of the topic, (2) the large number of blank spaces in the table, and (3) lack of clarity regarding the list's commingling of cancerous tumors with poor prognoses, benign growths with excellent prognoses, and everything in between. --Orlady (talk) 19:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is a concluded discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 00:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)