Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fordham University/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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 12:02, 16 August 2017.

Fordham University

 * Nominator(s):  Indefatigable2 talk 20:26, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

This article is about Fordham University. It has recently undergone a substantial amount of reworking and became a "Good Article" about two months ago. From my perspective it appears to be at the point where a Featured Article nomination would be warranted. I hereby nominate it as a candidate.  Indefatigable2 talk 20:26, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Image review Oppose pending some fixes and pending fixes on citation formatting, which is a bit inconsistent at the moment. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:22, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Captions that aren't complete sentences shouldn't end in periods
 * Not sure the use of galleries here is consistent with WP:IG - these could be easily replaced by lists, it's not important to see the portraits
 * File:Fordham_University_seal.svg: source link is dead, and is this really a "government agency? Not sure that tag is the best choice
 * File:John_Joseph_Hughes.jpg: one of the credited authors died under 100 years ago, and this needs a US PD tag
 * File:St._John's_College_1846.jpg is tagged as lacking author info, and when/where was this first published?
 * File:Woolworth_Building_at_night,_New_York_City.jpg: where are we getting that copyright tag from? Source claims copyright belongs to William Townand
 * File:Keating_Hall_1936_commencement.jpg: was the original publication Fordham News, or is that just the immediate source?
 * File:Assumption-hall.jpg: suggest using a different fair-use tag, and who is believed to be the copyright holder?
 * File:Fisherman-Fordham.jpg: what is the copyright status of the sculptural work? Same with File:Fordham_University_10.JPG, File:Ram_statue,_Fordham_Rose_Hill.png
 * File:Fordham_baseball_card_c._1910.jpg is tagged as lacking source info
 * File:Fordham_University_Rams_football_at_Yankee_Stadium,_1940.jpg: the uploader does not garner copyright here - what is the status of the original work?
 * File:William-Casey.jpg: source link is dead and tagged as lacking author info
 * File:Erzherzogin_Charlotte_von_Österreich.jpg would need a FUR for this article. Same with File:Dietrich_von_Hildebrand.jpg, File:Cardinal_dulles.jpg, File:Berrigan_brothers_cover_of_Time_Magazine.jpg, File:Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn.jpg
 * File:Hess.jpg: the documentation of PD-US suggests that it wouldn't apply here
 * File:Picture_of_Hilaire_Belloc.jpg: when/where was this first published?
 * File:CGJung.jpg needs a US PD tag, and if the author is unknown how do we know they died over 70 years ago?
 * File:046CupolaSPietro.jpg: what is the copyright status of the pictured building?
 * File:Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_New_York.svg: should include explicit copyright tag for the original design

Oppose: Apart from the issues raised above, there are notable deficiencies in referencing. Numerous paragraphs conclude without a citation, there are apparently unsupported statements within paragraphs, and there are whole paragraphs lacking citations.

Another issue of concern is that the article was nominated with no significant preparation after it was granted GA status in June. Moreover, unless I'm missing something, that GA seems to have been awarded after about ten seconds' consideration – I can't find any critical review or comment. I haven't looked in detail at other aspects of the article; it seems fairly thorough, and there is no reason why it shouldn't develop as a FA, but it needs more careful preparation. In my view the best course of action would be to withdraw this premature nomination, and to request a thorough peer review before resubmission. Brianboulton (talk) 10:33, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 12:02, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
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