Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Joseph P. Kennedy III/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 not promoted by User:Ian Rose 10:01, 13 August 2013 (UTC).

Joseph P. Kennedy III

 * Nominator(s): Designate (talk) 02:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

A novice U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, grand-nephew of a murdered president. Very few achievements so far, so consider this a minor article on a well-documented young politician. —Designate (talk) 02:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Whereas with WP:GA there is very little enforcement of the breadth requirment, at WP:FA topics that are not broad enough and interesting enough tend not to pass. For a politician this is a very narrow article at this point in his career. Even if the article meets WP:MOS, it seems to me that the topic will have difficulty passing WP:FAC.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, there is no "breadth requirement" in the FA criteria. It's "a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature", though. —Designate (talk) 11:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Assuming there is no other relevant literature, this is more than long enough to pass. Gagak Item passed with barely half as much prose. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:39, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The only discussion of length or breadth is criteria 1b which merely requires that a featured article be "comprehensive" in that it does not neglect major facts or details. I've seen several FAs shorter than this candidate. I do not see anything that stands out to me as lacking in a cursory perusal of the article, but will look the article over in detail shortly.--ColonelHenry (talk) 22:39, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Source review - spotchecks not done, no comment on source comprehensiveness
 * FN6, 13: missing italics
 * Use consistent date formatting
 * FN21: formatting
 * Compare formatting of FNs 18 and 26
 * FN33: don't use all-caps
 * Don't repeat cited sources in External links
 * Can you justify Ballotpedia with respect to WP:EL/WP:ELNO? Nikkimaria (talk) 22:05, 19 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, these have been fixed. I opened a discussion on WP:EL/N about Ballotpedia. —Designate (talk) 13:22, 20 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment I agree with Crisco re "breadth" etc, but it does concern me that as a Congressman of 6 months standing nearly every time he does anything at all ought to be added to his article for the next couple of years or so. Johnbod (talk) 19:12, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Comment - haven't got time for a full read, but ref #6 to Sports Illustrated looks dubious (or maybe citations have been mixed up). Neither the long quote (b) nor the internship (c) are covered by this article. GermanJoe (talk) 21:19, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Image check - all OK (PD-USGov, Flickr with no apparent problems, YT-image). Sources and authors provided.
 * File:Joseph_P_Kennedy_III_in_Dominican_Republic.png - OK. I had to do some soul-searching about this one: generally YouTube is not a reliable source for free media, but this YT-channel is linked from the Peace Corps-homepage. It should be OK to use, created by a member of a federal agency. If questions arise, the channel owner could be contacted, but i don't think it's necessary. GermanJoe (talk) 22:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Delegate comment -- I'm afraid that after remaining open almost a month with no comments since the first week, this nom appears well and truly stalled, and will be archived. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:02, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 12:03, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
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