Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lê Thánh Tông/archive1

Lê Thánh Tông

 * Nominator(s): Laska666 (talk) 23:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

This article is about Vietnamese king Le Thanh Ton, the last "great" king of classical Southeast Asia. Laska666 (talk) 23:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC) (t &#183; c)  buidhe  00:54, 17 January 2021 (UTC) Oppose, suggest withdrawal I would suggest taking this article through the good article process and/or seeking a peer review as a first step; unfortunately at the moment the article seems to be well off the FA criteria. Some specific concerns:
 * Image review
 * File:Lê Thánh Tông.jpg wrong licensing, the work of art is not two-dimensional
 * File:Map of Later Lê dynasty during the reign of Lê Thánh Tông (1460-1497).png needs verifiable source for the information encoded in the map
 * Sandwiching issue in Economic policy section, contrary to MOS:LAYOUT
 * FYI, the editor was recently reported at ANI (t &#183; c)  buidhe  05:38, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Given the length of the article as a whole the lead should be considerably longer
 * Some areas are lacking citations, for example the second paragraph of Early life
 * Style problems, including inline external link, hyphens used where dashes should be, repeated wikilinks, etc
 * Issues with neutrality of phrasing, for example in the statement that "The luxury of spending the energy of his youth in study made him the most erudite man of his generation". Nikkimaria (talk) 04:52, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This is perhaps because this sentence is word for word the same as the source. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Oppose from Gog the Mild
Per I don't think that this is yet ready for FAC. As well as the issues identified above, there is:
 * A lot of duplinking.
 * On the only source I checked, uncomfortably close paraphrasing. "In 1470 Thánh Tông issued a edict against people shaving their heads unless they were legitimate Buddhist monks or temple wardens suggests a suspicion of people seeking to impersonate temple dwellers to avoid field work. Despite this seeming inclination to curb the activities of monks and priests, in 1467, amidst an invasion of crop-destroying insects, the king sent Daoist priests to exercise their occult powers against the calamity; he also ordered that sacrifices be made to "all the deities" to stop the infestation." against the source.

Gog the Mild (talk) 13:19, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Oppose from Hog Farm
I found the same copyright violations as Gog, to the extent that I almost wonder if "copying and pasting" is a better phrase for that than "close paraphrasing". These copyright violations need cleaned up before the article is taken to FAC. FAC is supposed to be for articles that are ready, not ones that have significant issues. Hog Farm Talk 00:48, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note that I've removed a ton of copyvio - direct copying from GBooks sources - and have listed the article at WP:Copyright problems. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:16, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * - Thanks for doing that. Although my oppose still stands, as I think if an article has to actively be listed at copyright problems, it shouldn't be at FAC. Hog Farm Talk 05:11, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Coord note
Archiving per above -- I'd suggest Peer Review or looking at the FAC mentoring scheme before considering another nom. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:48, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 23:50, 20 January 2021 (UTC)