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List of countries by Human Development Index, 2005[edit]

This was split from List of countries by Human Development Index (a featured list) and I believe that this "companion" list should be featured as well. This is sort of a self-nomination, as I tweaked lead and eliminated overlapping of the second map with the high table, but this is largely the work of others. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 21:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. The editors on these lists have taken the list as it was in October when it was featured, and effectively renamed it to include 2005 in the name. The current version of the list has new 2006 sources. So essentially, the list you are asking for FL status is the list that got featured. I don't see that a name change should lose the FL status. I also didn't think there were any problems with the main list keeping its FL status even though a major change was immenent to revise for 2006.
The problem I have is that I'm really not convinced Wikipedia needs all these versions. The HDI goes back to 1990, and will presumably continue for many years to come. Only the current one is notable enough to be of encyclopedic value. Whilst historical data has a certain value, I don't think Wikipedia is an archive. Is there a precedence for this? What do others think? Colin°Talk 00:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It allows comparisons of how each country has changed. If you like this list can be renamed to something like "List of countries by Human Development Index (historical)" or the like. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Furthermore, let's assume that sometime in the future, new rankings are published for 2007's HDI. Following your rules, we would have to either automatically demote 2006's list or automatically promote 2007's list. Are you prepared to do that because, after all, 2007's data would be an update and a split? Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 21:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There are lots of dynamic (featured) lists. They don't all spawn off a historical snapshot each year. I'd be quite happy for List of countries by Human Development Index to maintain its featured status as long as the editors keep the standard high. Otherwise, it would only need reviewed if significant changes were made, aside from keeping the numbers up-to-date. The HDI website appear to have changed so I can't find the old articles. When I last looked, they specifically discouraged doing trend analysis on each year's data - since the formula used changes from time-to-time. For that reason, they specially prepared a historical trend report using the 2005 formula over the decades. The 2006 Statistics Trends provides a very visually appealing web page. It is encyclopedic for Wikipedia to contain details and (sourced) discussion of significant notable changes in HDI for countries or continents. That's quite different from just supplying the raw data, which is more than adequately done by the external sites (which we rely on). Whilst the past is a different and interesting place, last year is mundane. Colin°Talk 23:01, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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