Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/County Route S18 (California)/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 00:34, 5 March 2010.

County Route S18 (California)

 * Nominator(s):  Pzoxicuvybtnrm  04:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because of its great quality despite low importance. Many people do not know about county routes, making it a way to inform people about unknown roads.  Pzoxicuvybtnrm  04:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose Images lack alt text, as required by FA criterion 3. See WP:ALT for advise on alt text, including the special section on maps. In addition, there is a link to the disambiguation page Eastern Toll Road (California), which should perhaps be solved by making that page into a full article. Several links are dead, as listed in the toolbox to the right. Much of the article depends on Google Maps as a source; is that a high-quality reliable source as required by criterion 1c? Last, there are prose issues like "In addition, an Adopt-a-Highway program is considered to be implemented along the route in order to maintain its safety with the local environment" and "Eighteen years later since the formation of CR S18 in 1970". (I will strike this oppose when these issues are resolved.) Ucucha 04:41, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It may be better to get a peer review and independent copy-edit first to check for quality of prose and sourcing. I also note that the nominator has not contributed to the article; FAC instructions require that other major contributors be consulted before a nomination. Ucucha 05:21, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Quick fail currently GA means nothing, this was created by a user that did not follow WP guidelines relating to style (that is also now banned), has not gone through any "FAC-vetting" process such as our own ACR or through PR, etc. --Rschen7754 05:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Quick fail per Rschen7754—currently this article is the product of one user (which has since been banned) and is far from ready for FA. (No The article has not been submitted to the U.S. Roads Project's ACR, so not even members of the relevant WikiProject have looked at it in-depth. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 06:03, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose – this article fails to meet the criteria 1a (it's not well written), 1c (there are self-published sources and an over-reliance on Google Maps), and 3 (lack of alt text). While taking the article through the project's ACR is not required, it is highly beneficial. I suggest that the nominator withdraw this nomination to work on the issues raised. He should consult all of the featured article criteria before renominating the article. Imzadi1979 (talk) 06:17, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


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