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Karaoke
Self-nomination. Give comments. 219.77.52.194 11:43, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC) Therefore I object Worldtraveller 16:34, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. (1) Can we not have anons nominate articles? (2) Some stuff on the prevalence of Karaoke in Europe would be nice. (3) references. --JuntungWu 13:38, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Juntung, I don't think anons nominating is going to kill us. However, can you be more specific about what is lacking? I'll put this on peer review if you like. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:59, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * This particular anonymous user appears to be User:Cheung1303. Cheung and all the anons who appear to be him currently have 6 nominations here of the 21 here, and are seemingly making no effort to address objections to their nominations.  Many of his nominations have not been realistic, being way short of comprehensive.  It gets a bit irritating wading through so many futile nominations.  Anyway, in terms of this particular article, it's quite an interesting read but as it states in the introduction it concentrates on East Asia, so is not yet comprehensive.  Also a few bits of POV here and there, such as describing the film Duets as reasonably well researched.
 * Basically my concerns were that User:Cheung1303 was nominating articles using anon IPs. My concerns are better elaborated by Worldtraveller and CGorman. --JuntungWu 01:57, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. 1) I agree with the above that 6 out of 21 is a bit much and that there has been no effort to fix objections on other articles. 2) Many sections are too short - the section on mobile phones for example scarcely amounts to two lines (and im viewing it with a relatively large text size), 3) There is no See Also, or Print/Books section at the end of the article, I may not have a personal interest in Karaoke; but I am sure there are many books on it such as self help books and history/origin books on the topic. Overall I don't think that this article is even close to FA status. CGorman 21:19, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. It was me who asked on the article's talk page for help in a complete refactor of the piece; clearly, I can't think it's ready for FA.  I've been a karaoke singer for 14 years now, and almost none of the article's comments on current practice reflect how things happen here on the west coast of Florida.  I'm forced to assume, therefore, that it's much more a regional thing than might be obvious on it's face.  Please: no, not yet, Raul.  :-) --Baylink 22:24, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)