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The list was promoted 04:02, 8 April 2008.

List of Governors of New York[edit]

The next in the group (previous ones including CO and WI), I started working on this when the Spitzer thing broke hoping to bring it up to standards before he left; didn't quite make that, but here we are. --Golbez (talk) 20:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
  • Five paras in the lead seems a bit excessive, especially if you believe in WP:LEAD.
  • Avoid bold links in lead, per WP:LEAD#Bold title.
  • "For pre-statehood colonial governors, see the list of colonial governors of New York and directors-general of New Netherland. For the revolutionary government between 1775 and 1777, see New York Provincial Congress." not keen on the For... see... in the prose. Either make this a {{see also}} or write the links into prose more elegantly.
  • Don't like the "no image available" images at all. It makes the list incomplete in my opinion.

Otherwise a great list. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Five paras seems needed to convey the amount of information previous FLCs have requested and had, I can't really see much in there to get rid of. :(
  • Bold links have been in all of the other governor FLs, but I will admit it has always irked me. But then again, I'm having trouble thinking of a way of putting them in text without being annoying repetitive.
  • I've done a little better with the prose there.
  • What can I do, then? Have those rows be much thinner? Or get rid of all the images altogether and have just a selection of 6 or 7 along the right side of the page, a la Colorado?
  • Thanks for the comments! --Golbez (talk) 20:15, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yeah, I think a selective gallery is better than the "Do you have a free image?" image.. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • I wouldn't include ½ for David Paterson, the incumbent. It won't be long before that ½ is out of date.
  • I had to read "† denotes those offices from which the governor resigned to take the governorship." a couple of times before I understood it

-- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 15:37, 29 March, 2008

    • The 1/2 is not supposed to be taken literally, as the note for Terms says; it's intended to show that there is a discrete term here being divided among two people. If he gets re-elected to it, he will get 1 1/2; if he resigns, then he and Spitzer drop to 1/3 and (presumably) Bruno would get 1/3. And so on and so forth. If he were just elected, he would get a "1" even though he had just started the term.
    • I'd love if you could find a better wording for that, I stole it from the WI list which at present is the best of these lists IMO. --Golbez (talk) 20:15, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Not off the top of my head. It's the word "governor" that's bugging me, because at the time they resigned their post to become governor, they weren't governors.
      • Re your reply to TRM, a vertical gallery of 6 or 7 would be better than pointing out there are missing pictures. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 00:31, 30 March, 2008
  • I've changed it to a gallery, but I've removed all I think I can and it still goes one over - on my copious monitor, Paterson is shoved down to the next section. I'm trying to figure out who should get the boot: Dewey or Rockefeller? :P --Golbez (talk) 17:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Looks a lot better with the pictures now. Nice work -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 20:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak support Citations A through M, except C and G, need publisher's info.--Crzycheetah 20:04, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment the table columns (other than the last) should be made sortable, as great tables now have. Hmains (talk) 02:59, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Not possible, since the Lt. Gov column can have multiple entries per row. --Golbez (talk) 03:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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