Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Long and short scales/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 SandyGeorgia 14:19, 13 July 2011.

Long and short scales

 * Nominator(s): Ian Cairns (talk) 23:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because (a) it is already a GA article (b) it is stable (c) it (and its referenced sources) are already being referred to in Google as a definitive statement on this issue. I am interested in obtaining a gap analysis to find out how much work might be required to raise to FA status. Thanks, Ian Cairns (talk) 23:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * You failed to transclude this FAC to WP:FAC; I will do it now. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 01:45, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Oppose - unfortunately I don't feel this article currently meets the FA criteria. Here are some specific concerns: Suggest withdrawal and peer review to allow some of these issues to be addressed. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:39, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * More citations are needed. In general, a good rule of thumb is to have a minimum of one citation per paragraph
 * WP:MOS issues, including wikilinking issues, hyphen/dash problems, inappropriate bolding, etc
 * Organizational issues: bulleted lists/table problems, huge ToC
 * Use of potentially unreliable sources and inconsistent citation formatting
 * Citations to Wiktionary, missing information from citations, what appears to be a partial annotated bibliography in footnotes.
 * Suggest withdrawal I can only agree with Nikkimaria. FAC is for relatively minor fixes, not major upgrading. This is an interesting article, and you've put in a good deal of work, but it's some way short. It's a good idea at GAN to indicate if you are planning to go to FA, and ask for a no holds barred review  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  05:52, 13 July 2011 (UTC)


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