Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Koryo Ilbo/archive1

Koryo Ilbo

 * Nominator(s): toobigtokale (talk) 16:57, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

This article is about a Koryo-saram newspaper that has significant historical importance for their culture and for Korean culture as a whole.

It's also just an interesting story; the newspaper has gone through much more turmoil than many newspapers in the West. It experienced:
 * The Japanese colonization of Korea
 * The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
 * De-Stalinization
 * The North-South Korea split and the Korean War
 * The purge of Soviet Koreans from North Korea
 * The fall of the Soviet Union

It's a pretty gripping story imo.

The article has already passed a GA eval, and I think it hopefully shouldn't be far from being FA quality. I'm pretty responsive and receptive towards feedback, so should be able to get it up there.

toobigtokale (talk) 16:57, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

First-time nomination

 * Hi, and welcome to FAC. Just noting that as a first time nominator at FAC, this article will need to pass a source to text integrity spot check and a review for over-close paraphrasing to be considered for promotion. Good luck with the nomination. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:00, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for the consideration. I want to withdraw my nomination because I wanna focus on other things. I can't seem to find instructions on how to withdraw my nomination; would you be ok helping me out? toobigtokale (talk) 21:48, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll archive it. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:53, 8 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I’m close to an oppose on this for a few reasons, but before I dig in too far, is there any reason why there are a block of referees in the middle of the lead, and why punctuation has been placed after citations and notes? For the latter point, I’m looking at “peninsula[2][3][1][4][5],” and “Red Flag[note 3],” etc. Tidying those up before I start a full review would be best. - SchroCat (talk) 06:29, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I know it’s unusual to oppose after a withdrawal, but I’m going through wondering about all the citations (not sources, but citations) in italics, to add to all the other MOS discrepancies. To my mind, this isn’t of GA standard, so myriad are the MOS errors. - SchroCat (talk) 22:41, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for the feedback and for fixing up the article! MOS is not my strong suit; this is a good reminder for me to reread the rules on inline refs again.
 * The italicized refs probably come from the Visual Editor, never noticed it... I'll watch out for that in future. Thanks again! toobigtokale (talk) 20:07, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Gog the Mild (talk) 21:53, 8 May 2023 (UTC)