Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list proposal

Proposal #6

This is a new proposed design for displaying a "Today's featured list" section on the main page.

It uses a self-contained template that bypasses the need to create subpages. The schedule of pages to be displayed is listed on the template itself, and presents Featured Lists in roughly the same order that they were granted featured list status. Lists about very similar subjects were separated by a few days, to keep the presentation varied.

The star in the upper right-hand corner needs to be hidden, but that's easy to do.

The Transhumanist    21:39, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Comments and suggestions please

What do you think? What adjustments are needed? The Transhumanist    21:39, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

No me gusta. I would much rather it be a simple box, with perhaps 5 entries from the featured list with a link reading something like, "See more of this Featured List" or something. The scroll box puts way too much on the Main Page. Notice we don't throw the entire Featured Article up there? Mahalo. --Ali'i 22:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Please also note that the Featured List star is being transcluded, too. --Agüeybaná (talk) 22:34, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• Many featured lists are huge (text, images, references). It would make the main page load too slowly, which is a no no. Colin°^Talk 22:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Transclude the entire page into a scroll box? No, this is the worst suggestion yet. I would echo what Ali'i said, we don't use the entire FA or the POTD at full resolution. It transcludes the categories too. Mr.Z-man 22:46, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• A few problems with this. For the main page, like TFA it should be a summary else scrolling on the page looks silly once you get down to the list and it's now 145K rather than the 51K of today's mainpage which is going to make dialup connections horrible. Why is there an FA star at the top of the page ? How about the "Archive – By email – More featured lists..." feature to be added. Mostly it needs to be a summary as 145K and the scrolling greatly diminishes the utility of the mainpage - Peripitus (Talk) 22:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• I agree with the above criticisms. This simply isn't feasible. —David Levy 22:58, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Also, either all the content of the article would have to be copied to another page and that transcluded, or the TFL would be full protected from the main page cascading protection. Mr.Z-man 23:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - The list looks boring - just plain text, no picture no nothing. On top of that, the list juts out quite a bit - the paragraph width needs to be restricted to stop this from happening. Spawn Man (talk) 00:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:FLC

Hi folks, I regularily close and promote FLs, and currently there is a rather large backlog. Some FLCs that have been open for 3 weeks only have 2 comments and there are about a dozen that have been there for more than 10 days that I can't close due to a lack of comments. So if some of you would like to go there and look at a few of them and possibly vote, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:52, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

To anyone who is curious about this sixth proposal for a Today's featured list and trying to look at the page history to see what it looked like:

This proposal was highly dependent on the now-deleted {{lotd scroll}} (see that deletion discussion). It enabled the Main Page section to transclude the entire page of the featured list into a scroll box. After {{lotd scroll}} was deleted, the proposal no longer functioned, and thus the page history was deleted as per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (TFL). Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)