Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Noam Chomsky/archive2


 * 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 17:45, 27 October 2007.

Noam Chomsky

 * previous FAC
 * FARC
 * Former featured article, been on main page. Update at WP:FFA if repromoted.

Former featured article. Impressive, detailed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Godiego (talk • contribs) 12:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Oppose, for now. There are still tags requesting sources for whole sections of this article, and I feel the article is stylistically awkward (e.g. point form for Chomsky's political views versus full text elsewhere). Also, the article is imabalanced interms of content - the two largest sections (Contributions to psychology and Chomsky's influence in other fields) concern Chomsky's influence outside his own fields, which suggests a need to add more description of his own work. Remarkably, there's no section that specifically deals with his media and foreign policy analysis (these shouldn't be lumped in with his policitial views). Chomsky is more than worthy of a Featured Article, but this article isn't so worthy at the moment. Pinkville 13:55, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose due to large sections that are unreferenced. Some references are improperly formatted.  Pagra shtak  21:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Obvious and firm oppose A BLP article with cleanup banners and large uncited passages like this one wouldn't even pass as a GA (cleanup banners are quick-fails), much less FA. Van Tucky  Talk 01:53, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Aside from the obvious problems previously mentioned:
 * Criticisms contains only a See; no summary style at all.
 * Bibliography better suited to a list, with a main and selected significant works detailed here? I don't know the subject, so this may be just my opinion. Carre 14:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.