User talk:DoctorW/List of Colleges and Academic Departments of Human Ecology

My reply to your question on the Help desk

Appropedia might be an, uh, appropriate wiki for your list. See Wikipedia:Lists and Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates. The main problem with the list in your user subpage is the large number of external links. Wikipedia lists should link only to Wikipedia articles. If the various departments of human ecology are not notable enough for articles of their own, or at least for their own sections within the parent university articles, editors might object to your list on that basis. --Teratornis (talk) 00:35, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

I forgot to mention another way to add this type of information to Wikipedia: put it on a map. See for example Commons:Category:Maps of the United States, which shows lots of maps listing lots of detailed information that might attract criticism if it appeared in text form. You could draw a map showing where all the human ecology departments are, and list them in the file description on Commons. You can create base maps with programs such as Quantum GIS and annotate them with Inkscape. --Teratornis (talk) 04:05, 23 February 2010 (UTC)