Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Iraq War/archive1

Iraq War

 * Nominator(s): Bugnot (talk)

I'm nominating this article as a featured article because this article has developed and evolved over time into a very well-referenced, enthusiastically discussed, and extremely well-written article, providing general as well as specific knowledge and information about this topic to the respective readers and researchers. I, thus, believe that this article would prove to be a very good-candidate for the Featured-Article category. Please feel free to express your support or opinions. Regards to all. --Bugnot (talk) 20:55, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Please see WP:FAC instructions regarding consulting significant contributors to the article, and one nomination at a time. Withdrawing this nomination.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 04:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

The article has countless number of images and related- or sub-articles, and a whooping number of references: over 300 references! Precisely, 319. This clearly justifies that it very well deserves the ranks of a Featured-Article. --117.201.64.26 (talk) 21:38, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Procedural oppose - The article has a maintenance (merge) tag on it, should be resolved before nomination can continue. --Golbez (talk) 23:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Oppose
 * References need formatting per WP:CITE/ES.
 * Some things are just plain broken, like "On February 23, 2005" at the end of a paragraph.
 * Some references are placed incorrectly, such as before a punctuation mark; take a look at WP:PUNC

Gary King ( talk ) 00:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Strong Oppose Mulitple issues: As the tag says, the criticisms should be incorporated into the text and not given their own section per WP:CRITICISM. The human rights abuse section is written in listy prose. That section has major problems, mostly per WP:NPOV, and WP:WEIGHT needs to be given special attention. I wouldn't even give this a section/subsections of its own, but rather integrate the information into the different sections. Though Abu Ghraib is notable, the photo of England presents a serious problem with WP:WEIGHT (i.e. how much weight the article should give the situation - it already has an article of its own). A good copyedit would also be beneficial, and the see also section should only contain links that are not present anywhere else in the article. Problems with citation formatting is also present. Happyme22 (talk) 01:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)