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Governors of Kentucky

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The result of over six years of work (on and off), this topic can now be considered a good topic. It includes Governor of Kentucky as a main article, List of Governors of Kentucky as a featured list, and every governor's article – including the two Confederate governors – as either a good or featured article. I hope you will find this topic complete and interesting and will support its nomination for GT. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 13:14, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The count should be 62 as it includes the confederate article. Nergaal (talk) 15:05, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I went ahead and fixed it. Nergaal (talk) 15:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - That article wasn't intended to be part of the topic, only an explanatory link for the navbox. However, it is an FA, and if consensus dictates that it should be included, that's no problem. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 15:11, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Btw, ~~full support~~ for a topic that will seemingly become the largest we have. Very impressive! Also, the Confederate government seems to be within the scope of the topic. Nergaal (talk) 15:13, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support this topic and the removal of Confederate government of Kentucky because it is entirely in this topics' scope. Z gin der 2010-12-20T15:20Z (UTC)

Not sure I'd favor removing the Confederate government topic. Some folks who would be interested in that topic by itself, like Civil War buffs, might miss it if it's buried in here. Still, I'll defer to consensus. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 15:23, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support the topic - very impressive! I'm neutral on the inclusion of Confederate government of Kentucky, since that is relevant but goes beyond the scope of this topic (encompassing not just the Confederate governors, but the government as a whole). But, wow! that's impressive. cmadler (talk) 16:26, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Brilliant work from the most dedicated of editors. Reywas92^Talk 17:16, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support the topic - good job, but also support removal of the Confederate government article because a government is more than a governor (though I realize it would make the sorting here easier), the two Confederate governors can stay. Hekerui (talk) 18:35, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: that's some impressive work. I agree with Hekerui, though there might be other reasonable ways to handle the issue with the Confederate government. Ucucha 21:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support CrowzRSA 18:14, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Why is Gabriel Slaughter there twice? Shouldn't Joseph Desha be included? Could the confederate government be a subtopic? Adabow (talk · contribs) 20:23, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Hekerui (talk) 18:48, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Very nice work. Adabow (talk · contribs) 04:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I would remove the Confederate governors entirely since they operated a separate government. Those governors could form their own GT. The two topics look like different scopes to me. But I see that others disagree. —Designate (talk) 19:04, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note, the Confederate Gov't already has a subtopic that went through here a while back, so that's already been done. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 04:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you remove the two indented articles and just have "Confederate government ^(subtopic)" ? (with links, obviously) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]}

That works. I've modified the topic as such. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 19:59, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support wow. Just wow. This is amazing. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:52, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Racepacket (talk) 02:43, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question: would the topic template look better if we include the years of Governorship for each of the 40+ entries? Nergaal (talk) 18:10, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose in the current form if the topic is on "Governors of Kentucky" and not on "List of Governors" then it should also include Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and an yet nonexistant article Kentucky gubernatorial elections. If the lead article is dropped entirely (and the confederate one) and replaced with the List, then the topic is fine. After that, this list topic would be a subtopic on one including the articles on the Confederate one, the Lieutenant one, and the elections one. Nergaal (talk) 18:17, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I follow or agree with your logic that a topic about the governors of Kentucky must necessarily include the lieutenant governor or one about gubernatorial elections. In fact, doing some quick spot checks, I didn't find any states that have general "gubernatorial elections" articles, although there are many articles about specific notable elections. The governor and lieutenant governor weren't even elected on the same ticket until 1992. I really don't see how those articles should be required for this topic. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 14:10, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Rreagan007 (talk) 01:56, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Closed with consensus to promote. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:46, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]