Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of largest suspension bridges/archive1
This is a self-nom. I started this list a little over a year ago because I was frustrated that all the lists I found on-line were out of date or contained inaccurate data. I now believe this list to be the most comprehensive list available on-line. Unfortunately, there are not Wikipedia articles or pictures for all the bridges on the list. One aspect of this list that is unusual and a little controversial is that the bridge rankings are also external links to each bridge's website. There is no other way that I know of to create an automatically numbered list in a table. The controversial aspect is that some bridges either do not have a website, or do not have an English language version. Rather than make dummy links, I made a link to an error message on a subpage. After some initial resistance, I have not heard any complaints about this for many months. -- Samuel Wantman 08:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Object: A nice start, but there too may redlinks towards the end of the list. Adding images for all listed bridges would be great. Rather than linking to non-existent websites, I would just remove the links for the bridges that don't have websites. I think you could remove the links for the dates, but I think the location column should be fully linked (e.g. New York, NY, U.S.A. each time). Surely there are some paper references that could be added? Guinness Book of Records? -- ALoan (Talk) 11:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)