Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/A Place With No Name/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 not promoted by SandyGeorgia 14:12, 8 September 2009.

A Place With No Name

 * Nominator(s):  Pyrrhus  16 ' 15:20, 7 September 2009 (UTC)''

This little article has already had a busy few months here: it has been the subject of three AFDs (1, 2, 3), which themselves have been topics in two Signpost reports (here and here). Despite initiating the first debate and pressing for deletion in the two subsequent ones, I have cleaned the article up and feel that it meets the FA criteria. I welcome all comments and suggestions.  Pyrrhus  16 ''' 15:20, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

 Comment  - its, a little, broken up in terms, of the, amount of commas. Let me have a read through and see if I can improve matters. Parrot of Doom (talk) 15:49, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - on reading through (its a short article) I'd say that it fails the FA criteria on 1.(b). There simply isn't enough detail yet for this to be (IMO) considered a featured article.  Matters may be improved with time, when more information becomes available, and if the song is released, but I would have at least expected commentary in the similarities between the two songs, and short audio clip of one or both.  The article is also missing a citation for the blockquote.  My suggestion is, wait a few months until its released and garners some reviews, and add that to the article. Parrot of Doom (talk) 16:00, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose. (1) The body of the text appears to "borrow" from this article to the point of plagiarism, and (2) It reeks of bullshit ("It has been reported that the singer and America shared a manager in the late 80s"? Michael Jackson's manager in the late 80s was Frank DiLeo, who as far as I know had no connection to America). Sorry, but I'm more inclined to AFD this than to promote it to FA. – iride  scent  16:09, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose I would recommend a peer review and then maybe GAN but some articles will never be FA. I have been proved wrong though. Spiderone  16:27, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Agree with preceding three editors.  JN 466  22:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not deleteable, but not featureable either. I don't know if I would go so far as to say that this article could never be featured, but given the relatively sparse currently available information about it, and (!!!) the fact that it is unreleased but has the potential to be released someday, it won't be ready for a while. This is around where an article on "You Know You're Right" would be in 2000. Give it time, wait for its release, then go through WP:GAN and WP:PR. --Brandt Luke Zorn (talk) 23:40, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per above and fails 1(b). Possibly wait until further developments.  Aaroncrick  ( talk ) 05:49, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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