Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Germany/archive1

Germany
I'm nominating this article as I feel that it is the best article I've read based on a country. The writing is very clear and concise while in great detail stays to the point. It also makes fabulous use of linking to other articles and the images included go very well with the point being made. Jboyle4eva 14:14, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Object. Far from FA. Just to name some problems: At more than 80k, the article is too long (especially the history section) and badly referenced. The "Culture" section is just a list of names, transportation section should be written more in summary style. Exports and imports list breaks up economy section. Kusma (討論) 17:34, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Object. Article is too long, however some sub-sections are insufficiently short. Lead must be expanded to actually summarize the article. Lists should be converted into prose. Image layout is messy, all images are different sizes. Some citations are inline HTML links, some are actual footnotes - they should all be footnotes, see WP:FOOTNOTE. Article needs a copy-edit, spell check and general cleanup. — Wackymacs 18:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Object for length and refs before even giving the article too close a look-over for finer details. Staxringold talkcontribs 20:19, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Object. The article is too long. The history section alone is 24 KB. It needs to be summarised. --Maitch 21:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I'd object due to its state now, but think it is appropriate to hold off and see if the already identified work starts getting done. Jboyle4eva, you may want to look at what happened during the process for Canada recently, where significant improvements during this process, including shortening and summarizing, ultimately put it on the front page (well, it will be on the front page shortly). Sam 20:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)