Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of sister cities in Maryland

List of sister cities in Maryland

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: 15 days, 4 support, 0 oppose. Promote. --MarcK 12:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article itself is new, although it is based on a list that was formerly part of the Maryland article. Even though it's new, though, the subject matter is very stable. Geraldk 19:38, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Moerzheim may be a mistake - neither English nor German Wikipedia finds such a city, spelled oe, o or ö. Rmhermen 20:15, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the same thing. I found a newspaper article that lists it as Morzheim, but that doesn't show up either. Not sure what the deal is, but Frederick seems to think it's one of their sister cities so... Geraldk 20:54, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Google asks if you mean Pforzheim, but that's not in the right state, according to this list. Could that be a mistake? Tuf-Kat 08:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, there's some google presence for "Morzheim, Germany", including this little tidbit: an interracial dating site, which specifies that it is for Morzheim in the correct state. Tuf-Kat 08:20, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Oppose~~ over various style issues
- Reduce overlinking.
- use a proper table caption
- no categories??
- The format for "accessdate" in cite web is YYYY-MM-DD.
I'll be happy to support if these are fixed,though Circeus 21:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done Cut down on overlinking on the Maryland cities side. If more need to be done, let me know.

Done Changed table caption based on my understanding of MOS, but I'm pretty new to lists, so please inform if not correct interpretation

Done Added categories

Done Changed accessdates - Geraldk 04:26, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I made various edits to the table (it's tricky to get good-looking list tables...). Just remove the extra links in the country columns, and replace "Holland" with Netherlands, and I'll support. Circeus 05:05, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've caught them all now. Geraldk 05:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yay! Support. Circeus 05:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Could you please add the years when exactly the cities(or regions) signed the agreements. I think this list is not as comprehensive at the moment as it could be.--Crzy cheetah 09:04, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was my original intention, but it seems that the information is only there for some jurisdictions (largely because there are greater or lesser levels of formality to a lot of the sister city relationships, with some being run by small volunteer committees). So I was worried about a. not having the information for every entry and b. it being original research. But if you think it's essential, let me know, and I'll drop in what I can find. Geraldk 00:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I really do think it is essential to have the years. It helps the residents of those cities find out how strong of a relationship their cities have with each other (the longer it is, the stronger). I'd suggest just add the years you find, don't worry about not having the information for every entry as long as you add more than half of them. I noticed in your references, they have the years, so I don't think it will affect WP:OR.
P.S. In the Annapolis article, Tallinn is listed under sister-cities section. Could you check that out, please?--Crzy cheetah 02:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did my best, and added Tallinn. I think a lot of the Estonian twinnings are very recent, but can't find much about them. Geraldk 03:16, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have added a couple of years myself, too. I'll be looking for them. After reading this page, I assume that all Estonian twinnings started in 1993. I am not positive, though.--Crzy cheetah 04:18, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Crzy cheetah 05:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Oppose~~. I think that is essential, when having a years column, that all the entries have the year the ties began and a reference. From WP:WIAFL, it most certainly fails the comprehensiveness requirment. Surely if there are partnerships between these cities, then there most certainly should be some kind of record of when it started. Perhaps try contacting the city themselves, or city employees that could direct you to finding this information. I would venture to say that all the applicable information would be found in city meeting minutes, you just have to find out where. Pepsidrinka 20:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't that fall under the category of original research? Or am I not understanding what original research refers to? Geraldk 20:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Original research refers to taking primary sources and basing statements solely from that. Like taking a verse from the Bible and saying it means such and such, as opposed to taking the opinion of a scholar who says the Bible verse means such and such. For this list, you need any kind of valid source to verify that partnership did in fact occur in that year. Surely the ones that don't have years started at some time. If they aren't sister cities, then they shouldn't be on the list. If they are, then they started at some point in time, and then therefore should have a year. Pepsidrinka 20:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Give me a couple days. Geraldk 22:01, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think all of them are done now. Geraldk 16:45, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Conditional support~~. I feel that most of the article is up to featured status, there are minor things, in my opinion, need to be improved. The images Image:Rotterdamochtendmist.jpg, have depreciated public domain tags - also Image:Paide.jpg. They are also lacking a source. I have notified the uploaders and added the appropriate tags to the iamge pages. They should probably be removed until the information is corrected.

Perhaps consider improving the lead, as it doesn't talk about sister cities in Maryland, rather just a general what sister cities are. The only Maryland-specific sentence is that is done through Sister Cities International. Also, the table should probably be sortable so readers can easily sort the years, and/or, countries. And a minor thing, IMO, the flags column would like nicer if they were centered. Pepsidrinka 19:43, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Switched out the images. Expanded the lead. Tried to fix the flag column by pulling out the Wallonia flag, which was out of place anyway since no other country had a sub-national flag, but the sorting arrow kept the column wide. Only problem with making the table sortable is that the sub-headings screw up the sorting, so I've split the table in two. If people prefer it as one table, let me know. Geraldk 20:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Pepsidrinka 20:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]