Wikipedia:Featured article review/John Dee/archive2

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

The article was removed by User:Dana boomer on 07:47, 23 August 2013 [1].

John Dee[edit]

Review commentary[edit]

Notified: WT:LONDON, WT:WALES. The most prominent editors of the article are all inactive.

This article is full of problems that I feel compromise its FA status:

"Reputation and significance" is very choppy, with lots of short paragraphs.

Works an Artifacts are very listy.

Many of the references are not formatted properly.

I removed a "literary and culture references" section that was nothing but a bullet list of anyone who's ever name-dropped him. Pure trivia.

I initiated a discussion on the talk page last week, and informed a couple WikiProjects, but so far, nothing has changed. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 06:04, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Small point: link titled 'patrimony' takes me to 'Property'.

FARC commentary[edit]

Featured article criteria mentioned in the review section include prose, MOS compliance and references. Dana boomer (talk) 20:33, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delist, absolutely no changes made. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:18, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. Unfortunately, edits designed to improve the page have been reverted, so I see little hope of further progress. DrKiernan (talk) 19:42, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This removal candidate has been delisted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please leave the {{featured article review}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Dana boomer (talk) 11:48, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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