Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/David McMillan (smuggler)/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 28 June 2023 [1].

David McMillan (smuggler)[edit]

Nominator(s): WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 07:35, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about... the only person to ever escape from Klong Prem Central Prison in Thailand

Oppose. No where near FA standard, multiple areas are uncited, the prose is poor and sources lightweight. And the nominator has only made one edit to the article. - SchroCat (talk) 07:43, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose At a glance, large segments of uncited text (which I have tagged as such). TompaDompa (talk) 07:48, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
thank you for highlighting items that needed improving. I have read all of David McMillan's books and watched almost all his interviews also, however finding web articles to reference anything outside the actual escape from prison are hard to find. I have updated the article as you suggested and will continue to seek improvements, thanks again WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 09:00, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Pretty much because of what's already been said. I would recommend getting it to GA status first. Bneu2013 (talk) 07:51, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
thank you for your suggestion, if i submit as a Good Article and then i write more content, and cite pages of specific books by David McMillan as ref's, would that be acceptable or will they be deleted ? WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 09:28, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose This is a drive-by nomination. Graham Beards (talk) 08:16, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for your input, i am happy to add to this article and expand out various points, however this would only be possible by paraphrasing what David McMillan has written in his books (as online articles are scarce). If i write more content, and cite pages of specific books as ref's, would that be acceptable or will they be deleted ? i notice some parts of this article regarding his activities in Pakistan have been deleted since i last read it .... thanks again WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 09:04, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose and strongly suggest we do not see User:WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker back here again without either having a FAC mentor or in a joint nomination; this is now the third time the community has had to get bogged down in forcing a withdrawal from the same editor (along with this and another that was G6'd as out-of-process. In other news, this could be fun :) SN54129 11:36, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
dont worry i wont bother suggesting any more articles WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 13:51, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend a) reading the FA criteria and b) getting involved in some FAC assessing while or before improving the article and re-nominating it. Meanwhile I am archiving it.

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:49, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.