Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of ancient Egypt/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) 01:34, 24 May 2018.

History of ancient Egypt

 * Nominator(s): Векочел (talk) 15:08, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

This article is about the history of ancient Egypt. Векочел (talk) 15:08, 12 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Sorry, Векочел, but you haven't worked significantly on the article, and no one else has put sustained work into bringing it up to FA standard. FAs don't come into being by happenstance. Large portions of the article are uncited. There are numerous gaps in coverage and disproportionate emphasis on some periods. For instance, the era of Alexander and the Diadochi, spanning about 30 years, receives more text than the famed, 260-year Eighteenth Dynasty (whose end is glossed over) or the 330-year Late Period. The article takes for granted some things that are now disputed (like the order in which Piankh and Herihor held power) and editorializes at some points ("Religion, the arts, and architecture were restored to their glorious Old, Middle, and New Kingdom forms…"). I can say the sources it does cite are generally very solid, because this version of the article originated as a copy of the history sections of the main ancient Egypt article when it was on its way toward FAC, but this article isn't as extensive a survey of the relevant literature as an FA on a topic this size would need to be.


 * To : I see that you've been making several good article nominations as well as this featured article nomination. I don't mean to be discouraging, but I think you should look more carefully at the featured article criteria and good article criteria and study other articles and how their candidacies went to learn what the expectations are. I watched these processes for years before nominating anything myself. I'm not saying you should wait as long as I did, but you need to study more before diving in. A. Parrot (talk) 01:14, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Very well. Векочел (talk) 01:24, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Coord note -- Tks guys, the nom indeed looks premature so I'll be archiving it shortly. I might add to A. Parrot's comments that the lead would need to be expanded to two or three paragraphs as well; it should briefly summarise the entire article that follows. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 01:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
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