Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles de Gaulle/archive1

Charles de Gaulle
Long, detailed, lots of pictures, excellent writing. It fits the criteria. User:Luigi30 (&Upsilon;&sigma;&eta;&rho; &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; &#923;&#965;&#951;&#947;&#951;&#923;) 00:49, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Object Please do not submit article without references, especially if they are about potentially controversial topics or public personalities. I will provide a more extensive review later. Phils 05:51, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Some works has to be done on governements : some ministers are referred as "Minister of State". A French governement is made of "Ministres d'Etat" (Minister of State), "Ministres" (Minister) and "Secrétaires d'Etat" (Secretary of State). The title of "Sous-Secrétaire d'Etat" (Sub-Secretary of State) has also been used (that's not very common but de Gaulle himself was one case). A "Ministre d'Etat" is in charge of something (for instance Justice) and will be referred as "Ministre d'Etat, Ministre de la Justice"). I noticed the same problem in several articles about French governements. Ericd 11:03, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. Agree with Phils. Please read the criteria before nominating. Also the lists at the end should probably be moved into sub articles. - Taxman 16:52, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Object Though comprehensive, its got too many headings and too much text which may be moved to dedicated articles. I also am not sure if adding years in the headings is the right way to do so. == 18:31, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Too many headings ? Well 19, 14 for Richard Nixon, 10 for Bill Clinton and 19 for Winston Churchill. Ericd 13:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Nixon's headings are good. Clinton's and Churchill's are overwhelming. Ignore the bibliography, external links and references. == 19:23, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Except that dates were used in the article about de Gaulle, a choice than can be disputed, it has more or less the same chronological structure than Nixon. Ericd 21:07, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. The majority of the images have no source nor copyright status information. -- Infrogmation 08:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have added more links to other Wikipedias with the aid of this excellent tool. See my comments on Dorset, above. --194.73.130.132 14:27, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Overhaul of article on CdG
Apologies if this is not the appropriate place to inquire ... if not, could someone pse advise? Since October, when the comment, “Nag banner about lack of citations”, was posted on its discussion page, the article on CdG has undergone an overhaul. There are now 102 footnote references where there had previously been only 16.

Work is on-going, but can the banner about a lack of citations now be withdrawn? How does one go about making such a request? Where do we go from here?

Thank you ... Mikeo1938 (talk) 21:54, 18 January 2009 (UTC)