Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Naïve realism (psychology)/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 archived by Graham Beards via FACBot (talk) 06:43, 3 December 2015.

Naïve realism (psychology)

 * Nominator(s): Mcooperwhite (talk) 06:27, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

This article is about an important theory in social psychology which helps lay the groundwork for many other concepts in the field. I worked hard to expand this article from a stub as part of the Wikiproject in Psychology. Mcooperwhite (talk) 06:27, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Oppose First, a warm welcome to FAC and thank you for engaging in our FA process. I am concerned about the originality of the text. The whole of the Tenets is taken from here and it should be made clear that this is a quote if a re-written summary is not feasable. Other checks have revealed potential close-paraphrasing from other sources; for example this from the article, "For a study, pro-Israeli and pro-Arab students viewed actual news coverage of the massacre of civilians at two Palestinian refugee camps" and this  from the book Values and Knowledge by Terrance Brown. Also, the Lead does not fully summarise the article and does not provide an adequate introduction for the lay reader. The prose is not engaging and has an academic tone rather than an encyclopaedic one. I suggest a GA review followed by a Peer Review would be the best way to proceed. I think an FA nomination is premature. Graham Beards (talk) 11:04, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * As there has been no response to my concerns, I have tagged the article as a potential breach of copyright. Graham Beards (talk) 23:23, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Graham Beards (talk) 06:43, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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