Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/European Parliament


 * 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 promoted 00:00, 16 July 2007.

European Parliament
Self-nomination (mostly). I have been working on this for a while and editors have done a lot to it. Since getting GA status it has been improving and I think the quality overall is good enough for FA. If there are any problems I should be able to fix them rapidly. -  J Logan t/c: 16:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Reads well, covers all the bases. Looks great! --Hemlock Martinis 21:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, looks very good! — Nightstallion 22:17, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Support But I think the caption "The seat in Strasbourg is seen as a symbol by some, and as a waste of money by others" can be improved, probably be deleting all but the first four words? BenB4 09:47, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it might loose a bit meaning if I did that, I had shortned it to "Strasbourg is seen..." before but was rv. as that would mean the whole city it seems. I have rewritten it though as "The Strasbourg seat is a symbol to some, and a waste of money to others" which brings it down to two lines. That okay? -  J Logan t/c: 11:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, on just the wording, it's likely that a lot of people see it as both. But what I was trying to get at was the bias and weasel words.  The accompanying text explains the situation well.  How about "Strasbourg is controversial because of the extra cost for a second seat"? BenB4 11:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, how about "The cost of two seats has been a cause of controversy" -  J Logan t/c: 12:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Perfect. I added the noun phrase to the caption describing the photo. BenB4 13:21, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose for now, but looks very doable.
 * Templates go at the top of each section (see WP:GTL).
 * Please get rid of the awful scrolling window on references; that method eliminates from refs from mirrors (of which FAs have many) and printouts (some of us do read the articles from a printed version). scroll box says not to use it in mainspace, and references  this TfD result.
 * There are external jumps in the text; Wiki is not a blog. Those jumps should be either converted to references or Wikified text.
 * Date parameters are not correctly identified on all sources; for example http://www.ft.com/cms/s/56b6d760-a412-11da-83cc-0000779e2340.html has a full date, which should be entered (there are likely others, since no full dates are specified).
 * See WP:MOSNUM, solo years shouldn't be wikilinked. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 23:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Removed the one template that was below. Removed ref window. Removed all external links. Added all available dates. Not sure what you emant on solo years, but I have removed all links to years without full date. -  J Logan t/c: 09:44, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Beautiful, and fast! Striking oppose.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 15:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.