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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nomination and support - HarisM 09:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of southern Europe with an area of 51,129 km² (19,741 square miles), and an estimated population of around four million people.


 * Object. The history section is tooo long. You should only provide a short summary. And get rid of the gallery. Finally, compare the article to other featured countries. CG 10:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't feel like you explained your objection, CG. For HarrisM's benefit, I'll make an attempt at doing so based on why I think an objection applies here. Basically, the history section seems to be pretty much lifted straight from the History of Bosnia and Herzegovina page. Since that page is serving to summarize eight others (two of which need to be merged into it anyway because they aren't any longer than their sections in the umbrella page), the history section of the article you've nominated should use History of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its main page reference, with a summary of it instead of those other eight. It's good information, of course, but there's no practicality in duplicating it exactly from another page like this. Either the "History of" page would have to be entirely merged into Bosnia and Herzegovina, or the Bosnia and Herzegovina page should use Summary style (the latter being the most practical for obvious reasons). Ryu Kaze 13:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. My English sucks :-( CG 06:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. By the way, I've never noticed any issues with your English. Until you said something, I hadn't even realized it wasn't your first language. Ryu Kaze 13:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


 * STRONG Object I didn't even bother reading the article. Before I read an FAC country article, the first thing I do is make sure everything is in order in terms of sections, section lengths and references. Have you even looked at this page? It gives you a complete prototype of what the page should look like.
 * References are alright but it would be better if the bibliographic style was the same throughout (3-8 are good but why is 9 different?).
 * My biggest problem is really with the sections, "Culture" is dreadful, "Education" should be a sub-section of Demographics. "Tourism" should be a sub-section of "Economy" or "Culture", whichever suits. "Discoveries" should be removed; it's completely irrelevant. "Ad. divisions" and "Geography" should be hacked down (as should the whole article really). "History" is FAR too long.

Overall VERY poor organisation, but I think the basis is there for an FA.


 * Fix the sections according to WikiProject Countries/Templates (above link)
 * Reduce the article length and section lengths
 * Fix the references

then I'll actually read it and talk about more important things like fluidity of writing, compelling prose etc. Come back again for FAC when it's ready as per above suggestions (Oh and don't forget to delete the Picture gallery!) Jaw101ie 14:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)