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List of counties in Alabama[edit]

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: 16 days, 1 support, 1 oppose. No active discussions. Fail. Scorpion0422 17:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Members of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Alabama have endeavored to bring this list up to featured list quality. I believe it now meets the qualifications set forth in Wikipedia:What is a featured list. --Dystopos 20:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose
    1. How many counties were there when Alabama became a state? It should be added in the lead.
    2. The Origin and Licesne # columns need references.
    3. The counties should not be linked in the origin column, since they're already linked in the Counties column.
    4. This list states that Franklin County was formed by territorial legislature in 1818 and at the same time Marion County was formed by territorial general assembly. I think you need to explain the difference between territorial legislature and territorial general assembly.
    5. In the Origin column, it states both "Formed from XXX County" and "part of XXX County". Just choose one version and go with it for cosistency.
    6. All the names in the Named for column need dates(birth-death), plus it would be better to note that Jefferson was the 3rd U.S. President, Monroe 4th(?), Madison 5th, and so on.
    7. It would be beneficial to mention where the county seats got their names from. I don't mean all county seats, just the ones that were used to name the county.
    8. I think the fictional counties section is trivial and should be removed. I am not too sure of this, though.
    9. The Defunct counties section would look better in a table, see List of counties in Massachusetts for an example.
    10. Oh, almost forgot, is it possible to create a template for the imagemap at the top?

--Crzycheetah 19:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: defunct county, most of them are not "defunct", they were renamed, that's different. But I think the fictional counties are okay. We have them in List of parishes in Louisiana and I think it's just fine. However, both these section needs proper sourcing. Circeus 00:10, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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