Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hong Kong/archive2


 * 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 not promoted by SandyGeorgia 20:57, 20 February 2010.

Hong Kong

 * Nominator(s): Toutvientapoint (talk) 10:22, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it meets the FA criteria.Toutvientapoint (talk) 10:22, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The instructions of the featured article candidates process require that major contributors to an article be consulted before the article is nominated here. In this case, have major contributors such as Ohconfucius and HongQiGong (as listed here) been consulted? Ucucha 11:54, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * According to the links to the right, the article has several links to disambiguation pages, dead external links, and images without alt text. Ucucha 11:58, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Oppose on images. Pretty sure File:Japanese troops enter Hong Kong.jpg isn't PD (for these reasons). Fairly safe to assume File:Kellet Island and Victoria City.jpg is old enough, images of art and buildings are fine because Hong Kong has freedom of panorama and the others seem okay. Rambo's Revenge (talk)  16:41, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Offending image has been removed. But I can't guarantee that somebody else will not insist on adding it back during this FAC.  A lot of people edit this article.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:27, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Comment on alt text and HTML: Eubulides (talk) 21:00, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Alt text is mostly present (thanks) but it has some problems.
 * The alt text for File:Hong Kong SAR Regional Emblem.svg says it's a flag, but it's not.
 * The alt text for File:Hong Kong Skyline Restitch - Dec 2007.jpg could describe almost any night city panorama: what's special and Hong Kongish about this image?
 * The "red splodge marking Hong Kong" part of the alt text for File:Hong Kong Location.svg focuses on unimportant trivia rather than the gist of the map; please see WP:ALT for advice.
 * The alt text for "File:Hong Kong in Chinese 2.svg" should simply transcribe the text; it shouldn't translate it into English (see WP:ALT).
 * Alt text is missing for File:HongKongLegcoBuilding2.jpg, File:Government House rightview.jpg, File:Map of Hong Kong.svg, File:HKUST Campus.JPG.jpg, File:Geography of Guangdong.gif.
 * The alt text for File:HongKong boundary from space.png does not convey the gist of the image: where is the vegetation, and where is the conurbation? Again, see WP:ALT.
 * The alt text for File:Avenue of Stars Statue crop.jpg says nothing about the statue, other than it's bronze.
 * The alt text for Image:Anglospeak(800px)Countries.png is "English sometimes spoken here", which is completely inadequate: it should give the gist of the map, as per WP:ALT.
 * Please fix the HTML validation error reported by the W3C markup validation service; see Help:Markup validation . This is not specifically a FA requirement but it's good practice.


 * Image review -- File:Kellet Island and Victoria City.jpg seems to lack a source. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:16, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Conditional Oppose re clarity and coverage, particularly in the early sections.
 * (BTW, Template (or whatever) There is something hinky about the templates etc for this, because the article page doesn't include a link to here. I don't know why that happened or how to fix it.)
 * Fixed. There was no FAC template on the talk page. Ucucha 18:25, 16 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Most of my problems with the articles are in the initial sections on history, and early British rule, mainly that its coverage is slanted and spotty. I realize that there is another article on the history of Hong Kong.
 * Missing content? "Hong Kong began as a coastal island geographically located in southern China.
 * Well, if it's geographically located in China, it's not an island. Perhaps it is an island in the South China Sea?  From your map it looks like it is not an island, but a peninsula.  This needs explanation.  Is the entire thing separated from the mainland?  Although you answer this later, under geography, perhaps this section should go here, or at least part of it. OR, perhaps include a geography summary in your lead, so that you at least establish that it is an Island in the South China Sea.
 * clarity While pockets of settlements had taken place in the Hong Kong region, with archaeological findings dating back thousands of years, regularly written records were not made until the engagement of Imperial China and the British colony in the territory. "
 * I have no idea what this means, and what I do gather from it raises POV issues. What are pockets of settlements? Do you mean small settlements? Localized settlements? Small settlements with localized influence and trading? What is a regularly written record? Does a territory acquire a regularly written record only after British rule?  (NPOV?) Or did the written record appear with Imperial Chinese rule? What is the engagement of Imperial China and the British colony in the territory?  Were there people there before the British? (sounds like yes).  Is the engagement of Imperial China and the British colony the relationship between Imperial China and the British colony?  Do we know what the Portuguese found there?  What were they doing there anyway?  How did the region become incorporated into the world wide trading network? (because this is why it became so important...)

This content also relates with this in the following section:


 * "Human settlement in the area now known as Hong Kong dates back to the late Paleolithic and early Neolithic era,[24] but the name Hong Kong (香港) did not appear on written record until the Treaty of Nanking of 1842.[25] That is a loonnnnnggggg time between the Nelithic and 1842. Don't we know anything, even in summary, about what happened in between?  You refer to it in the previous section, but perhaps it should be better explained there, and omitted in this section.


 * incomplete coverage It became a colony after the Opium War. You have a single sentence on this, and it deserves some more.


 * clarity There are several bits of prose I don't understand. The British introduced an education system based on their own model, while the local Chinese population had little contact with the European community of wealthy tai-pans settled near Victoria Peak.[28]  Was the Brit education system only for Brits, or did it include everyone.  Did it further isolate the Brits from the local population?  what is a tai pan?  do I have to click on the link to find out, or could you just add a word or two?


 * Awkward Hong Kong Island became occupied by British forces in 1841, and was formally ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Nanking at the end of the war. ::  The British occupied Hong Kong Island in 1841, Imperial China formally ceded the Island in 1841, under the Treaty of Nanking.

Etc. Later sections of the article are better, but I find the coverage in the early sections very scanty and slanted. Auntieruth55 (talk) 18:13, 16 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Cantonese IPA in Template:Hong Kong pronunciation needs to be fixed; IPA does not use diacritics to indicate tone like that. I fixed the Mandarin but I don't know Cantonese. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 20:38, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
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