Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harry Potter (character)/archive 1

Harry Potter (character)

 * ''Nominator(s): Timothyhouse1 (talk)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because I believe it meets the criteria and it meets the same standard. Timothyhouse1 (talk) 09:44, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

--Efe (talk) 11:56, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * Why use Harry? Why not Potter?
 * The lead must be two to three paragraphs per WP:LEAD.
 * I think this article needs more sourcing
 * especially those quoted phrases "and derogatively referred to as a "Mudblood"."
 * The line "In real life, Harry's iconoclastic appearance has become cult." under the section In popular culture needs ref.
 * According to Rowling, Harry's favourite book is Quidditch Through the Ages, an actual book that Rowling wrote (under the pseudonym Kennilworthy Whisp) for the Comic Relief charity.
 * A lot of MoS breaches
 * "Harry's spiritual ancestor." and "flawed and mortal." the period must be outside the quotation marks.
 * Must use nbsp for ellipsis and others throughout "The basic idea [is that] Harry ... didn't know he was a wizard ... and so then I kind of worked backwards from that position to find out how that could be, that he wouldn't know what he was...
 * This one needs space using nbsp "...sickened...by the use to which Draco was now being put by Voldemort""
 * Unlike common terms like child, mentor, memory, and perception. I unlinked some.
 * I suggest using the cite web and cite news templates for the references.
 * Ref 38 (a wikipedia article) isn't reliable per WP:RS.
 * Note: the main contributors to this article, of whom Timothyhouse1 is not one, have not yet been notified of this FAC. While anyone is free to bring a FAC, I believe there is precedent for removing a FAC listing if the primary contributor doesn't feel it's ready. I've left a note on Timothy's talk to this effect, so maybe we should hold off on comments or votes until he gets back to us. Steve  T • C 12:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

–Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  14:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose
 * Lead needs to be expanded to at least two paragraphs.
 * MoS breaches, such as spaced emdashes.
 * Citation needed tag in the In popular culture section.
 * References need to be formatted correctly; some are barelinks, while others are quite messily formatted. Some lack publisher and author information, as well.


 * Comment: "The books cover seven years in the life of the lonely orphan..." Not really. They cover way more than seven years. They go back to when Voldemort was a boy, his parents as children, himself in the future etc. And describing him as a lonely orphan is probably correct as far as the first chapter or so of the first book is concerned, but he's hardly lonely from then on. – How do you turn this on (talk) 17:04, 25 October 2008 (UTC)