Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Iran/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 18:19, 26 January 2008.

Iran

 * previous FAC

Nominator:Ardeshire Babakan (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Approve: I approve of it's nomination. We have addressed all(I think) of the issues mentioned in the previous nomination discussion page. Also the page is at it's lowest size for months, even years, and I think it is small enough.Ardeshire Babakan (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Please format the references correctly (authors, publishers, date published, retrieval dates, etc.). Done! Completed as much a I can. I deleted some incorrect cittions and incomplete book sources(e.g. "Durant")Ardeshire Babakan (talk) 20:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC) The statistics in the Geography and climate section need citations.  Budding Journalist 03:16, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Did that too
 * Please do not strike out comments from other users. Let them decide whether their own issues have been taken care of. The references formatting certainly do not merit a "done". Lots more to do. Budding Journalist 02:06, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now: Please refer to Summary style for guidance on how to structure the History, Government, Economy and Culture sections. I've noticed several grammatical errors by barely skimming through the article &mdash; I'll try my best to fix glaring errors today.  I think this article could use a good copyedit as well.  I don't think the current state of the article is quite at the FA level yet. AreJay (talk) 03:55, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Object:
 * Image:Carte Iran 1000.png needs to be re-labeled in English.
 * Image:Divan hafez aks2.JPG is tagged as PD-Iran, but it was published in 1969, and the "publication+30" rule on the tag only applies to photographs and movies. This image is under the "life+30" rule, and there's no indication of when or if the creator died.
 * --Carnildo (talk) 06:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC) it says that a Mohammad tajvidi was born in 1924(1303AH) and it doesn't mention his death, so I assume he is still alive. I will delete the image and replace it with another.Ardeshire Babakan (talk) 17:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Object - I haven't reviewed the article thoroughly, but whole subsections under History are unsourced, which must be addressed. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose great swathes are unreferenced, plus some inconsistencies with style e.g. two percent / 2%. Peanut4 (talk) 23:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose—1a, 2a. I've discussed random examples of why the whole article needs a thorough copy-edit by someone new to it. It would be nice to see this promoted, but it needs more input.
 * "Iran is a founding member of the UN, NAM, OIC, OPEC, ECO, and seeks to join the SCO"—Most readers will know "UN" and "OPEC", but the rest—especially the last one (Shanghai) would need to be spelt out first time. But it's kind of tedious to waste precious high-impact space in the lead with such a list; isn't there something more broad-based you could substitute this with? And that second para in the lead is a mish-mash of different ideas.
 * "Shi'a Islam is the official religion of the state, while Persian is the official language"—Remove "of the state"; "while" is not a good connector here—anything wrong with "and".
 * Logic: "As a regional power,[9] Iran occupies an important position in international energy security and world economy due to its large reserves of petroleum and natural gas." I can't see the connection between the opening phrase and the rest. Keep them separate; the regional power thing needs its own space (why not straight after "Eurasia"?).
 * "Literally"—remove it.
 * Titles: en dash should be spaced where there are internal spaces in either or both items (BCE etc).
 * Space required after "1000" in caption.
 * See MOS on titles: "From the fall ..." is getting too long.
 * "A Latin ..." caption—not a full sentence, so no period.
 * "About 45% of the government's budget came from oil and natural gas revenues"—past tense? When?
 * "Government spending contributed to an average annual inflation rate of 14% in the period 2000–2004." Technically contestible statement.
 * Surprised to see English on the banknote!
 * 1991 census: reference, please.
 * Some redundant "alsos".
 * Is it really necessary to make long lists of other nations blue? I'd delink, but it's up to you.
 * "much like the European Union called ECO"—a comma would help; even then, it's clumsy.
 * "the current administration"—current means someone will have to houseclean when the regime changes. "As of 2008, the administration ..."?
 * "The number of Iranian citizens abroad is estimated at some four million people who emigrated to North America, Europe, and Australia, mostly during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s." Clumsy sentence. En dash for the linked "Iran–iraq war" (piped, since the article title needs one). Tony   (talk)  09:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.