Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates

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Removing featured lists in Wikipedia This page is for the review and improvement of featured lists that may no longer meet the featured list criteria. FLs should be kept at current standards, regardless of when they were promoted. Any objections raised in the review must be actionable. The FLC director, Giants2008, or his delegates, PresN and Hey man im josh, determine the exact timing of the process for each nomination. Nominations will last at least 14 days, and longer where changes are ongoing and it seems useful to continue the process. For a nomination to be kept, consensus must be reached that it still meets the criteria. Consensus is built among reviewers and nominators; the delegates determine whether there is consensus. A nomination will be removed from the list, archived and added to Former featured lists if, in the judgment of the director who considers a nomination and its reviews: actionable objections have not been resolved; or consensus to delist has been reached; or insufficient information has been provided by reviewers to judge whether the criteria have been met. Nominations may be closed earlier than the allotted two weeks if, in the judgment of the FLRC delegate, the list in the nomination: has a clear consensus to merge or redirect to another article or list. This consensus may be shown in Articles for deletion, a discussion on the article's talk page, a discussion on the relevant WikiProject(s), or other community venues that present a tangible consensus to merge or redirect the article; or contains a clear copyright violation and removal of the copyrighted material would severely degrade the quality of the list. Do not nominate lists that have recently been promoted (such complaints should have been brought up during the candidacy period as featured list candidates) or lists that have recently survived a removal attempt – such nominations are likely to be removed summarily. A bot will update the list talk page after the list has been kept or the nomination has been archived; the delay in bot processing can range from minutes to several days, and the {{FLRC}} template should remain on the talk page until the bot updates {{ArticleHistory}}. If a nomination is delisted, editors should take adequate time to work on resolving issues before re-nominating at Featured list candidates.  – Table of Contents – Closing instructions

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Nomination procedure Place {{subst:FLRC}} on the talk page of the nominated list. From the FLRC template, click on the red "initiate the nomination" link. You will see pre-loaded information; leave that text. If you are unsure how to complete a nomination, please post to the FLRC talk page for assistance. Below the preloaded title, write your reason for nominating the list, sign with ~~~~ and save the page. Please note which of the featured list criteria that the list fails to meet. Place {{Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/name of nominated article/archiveNumber}} at the top of the list of nominees on this page by first copying the above, clicking "edit" on the top of the page, and then pasting, making sure to add the name of the nominated article. Notify relevant parties by adding {{subst:FLRCMessage|ArticleName|archive=# of archive page}} (for example, {{subst:FLRCMessage|List of Presidents of the United States|archive=1}}) to relevant talk pages (insert article name). Relevant parties include main contributors to the article (identifiable through article stats tool), the editor who originally nominated the article for Featured List status (identifiable through the Featured List Candidate link in the Article Milestones), and any relevant WikiProjects (identifiable through the talk page banners, but there may be other Projects that should be notified). Leave a message at the top of the FLRC indicating whom you have notified and that notifications have been completed.

Nominations for removal

List of governors of Adamawa State

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Per Wikipedia:AI noticeboard/Vanderwaalforces, this article needs to be examined for use of AI. Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:52, 14 October 2026 (UTC)

List of governors of Taraba State

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Per Wikipedia:AI noticeboard/Vanderwaalforces, this article should be examined for use of AI. Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:53, 14 October 2026 (UTC)

List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles

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I am nominating this for featured list removal because the article has multiple issues.

• Of the four large paragraphs in the lead, only two facts have references. Many facts in the lead are not mentioned in the article and so rather than removing these two references, the entire section should be referenced.
• The writing is sloppy. I did a quick pass of the lead and made numerous changes; even so, the lead needs more work and the text in the rest of the article needs review
• I believe many of the sources, including emporis and skyscraperpage, would be considered unreliable. This skyscraperpage source even mentions that its height information, which is referenced in the article, is unconfirmed
• At least one reference name is invoked but never defined
• There is considerable source-to-text integrity/original research EDIT: its not necessarily original research per WP:OR, but it is at the very least not properly cited and also could be WP:SYNTH issues, as many facts, while likely true, are not mentioned in their sources (just a brief look gives "Tallest building in Greater Los Angeles outside of Los Angeles", "tallest building 1907-1911", and "Tallest building completed in Los Angeles in the 2010s until the Wilshire Grand Center." as facts not mentioned in their sources).
• There are numerous formatting/Manual of Style issues
• EDITED TO ADD: with the exception of one sentence ("More high-rise clusters are found throughout Greater Los Angeles, including in Glendale, Irvine, and Long Beach.") the lead only discusses the city of Los Angeles, but many of the buildings listed are not in the city. The list actually seems more like List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles County, but the lead does not reflect this

Gb321 (talk) 05:38, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

• Delist. All of that unsourced information makes this unsuitable for Featured List standard unless someone undertakes an improvement. Bgsu98 (Talk) 05:49, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

@Gb321 Regarding what you said about the lead and ask that you look at the state of the page two years ago, when it was much worse and still featured. In addition, Wikipedia has policies where you don't need to cite facts if they are obvious or self-evident, and "Tallest building completed in Los Angeles in the 2010s until the Wilshire Grand Center." is one of those (although I agree that note should be removed).

Hi @LivinAWestLife, thanks for your comments. WP:NOTCITE states that self-evident facts are facts "that the average adult recognizes as true." Paris is the capital of France is a self-evident fact. The average adult would have no idea what the tallest buildings in Los Angeles are without looking up their heights, meaning they are not self-evident.

WP:BURDEN states that "all content must be verifiable. A fact or claim is "verifiable" if a reliable source that supports it could be cited..." No sources support the claims I flagged. The sources only mention the height of the individual building, meaning these superlatives statements would require sourcing every building but even that would be WP:SYNTH, which states "do not combine different parts of one source to state or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by that source." I think sourcing a list of tallest buildings would be adequate for some of the simpler superlative statements if one can be found. Gb321 (talk) 03:09, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

Please list any more MoS issues since you claim there are so many.

If I was going to spend the time it would take to do this, I would just fix them. I already did (somewhat) with the lead. If someone wants to keep this article as a featured list, they can consult the MoS and fix any issues until there is a consensus there aren't any. Right now, I believe a consensus would conclude that there are too many MoS issues in this article for it to be a featured list Gb321 (talk) 03:09, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

LivinAWestLife (talk) 15:22, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

List of Latvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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I am nominating this for featured list removal because there are numerous unsourced statements, which is unacceptable for a Featured List. Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:30, 3 October 2026 (UTC)