Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Netherlandish Proverbs

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: 12 days, 0 support, 1 oppose. Fail.

A painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder which features over 100 hundred figures of speech, all lovingly cut and pasted. Yomangani^talk 02:05, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

• For the record, most of those are more accurately described as idioms rather than actual proverbs (although there are a few proverbs). Circeus 04:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

  I was following the lead of the English title by referring to them as proverbs throughout, but, as somebody else brought up that point too, I've substituted some of the uses. Yomangani^talk 23:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose After considering this, I've come to consider that the page remains an article, even though most of the page is taken by a list.Circeus 13:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Interesting, I'm sure it would be rejected at FAC for being mostly a list (perhaps I'll start up "Featured half list/half articles"). Yomangani^talk 20:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
    • It would probably be rejected not for being a list, but for providing patchy coverage of the topic. I would be far more inclined to make suggestions if this was at (say) "List of idioms pictured in Netherlandish Proverbs." Right now, the list is not really ideal IMHO, Circeus 00:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

• Och no. It is definitely a list. I'd like to support but have some questions. It looks like the list is sourced solely "From a list published by the Staatliche Museen af Berlin." Is this the case, or do your references back it up? If not, can you elaborate on that reference. Is this list a hand-out or a poster at the museum? Do you know the date, author? Is the "meaning" explained in this list or did you add that (WP:OR)? Colin 21:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

  It was (and possibly still is) available on a CD-ROM published by the Museum, but the list (with meanings), is reproduced in full in Hagen's book. I've amended the footnote to reflect this. Yomangani^talk 23:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

  Why not just cite the Hagen book for the list, then? Would save people the trouble of looking for a rare CD. Circeus 00:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)