Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Oscar Wilde/archive1

Oscar Wilde
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 * MarnetteD 228
 * Dabbler 85
 * Jmabel 56

Nominator. I'm nominating this article for featured article because it goes beyond the FA criteria by providing a very insightful, detailed, knowledgeable, and engaging look into the life, works, and ideas of Oscar Wilde, a man who should be known by everybody. His insight would benefit any Wikipedia user and featuring it would make this happen. RedBaron5142 (talk) 02:01, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Oppose. The lede is too short, the article needs cite web throughout the article, and there are citations needed. I didn't even look at the prose. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 02:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Strong oppose This article is not ready for FA. Maralia (talk) 04:12, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There is an open, in-progress RFC over content on the article talk page
 * There are something like 20 paragraphs completely lacking citations; for example, the Aestheticism and philosophy section has one reference in seven paragraphs of text, and the Sexuality section has four references for eight paragraphs
 * Two very long sections of the article - Biography and Biographical films, television series and stage plays - consist entirely of proseline
 * Almost none one of the footnotes have page numbers