Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012/archive4


 * 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 User:GrahamColm 10:02, 15 December 2013 (UTC).

Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012

 * Nominator(s): Casprings (talk) 02:06, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

This article is about the various comments that related to rape, pregnancy and related comments during the 2012 election in the United States. The major comments came from Todd Akin and Richard Murdock. Pervious attempts that there were many comments, from others, that did not belong on the page. A copy edit weeded out many of these and only comments that truly received a significant amount of media coverage are now included. I think the article now gets it right. Because of that, I am renominating this article. Casprings (talk) 02:06, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I remain dubious of this article for the same reasons I opposed it in the last nomination. You've got big sections on Akin and Mourdock, a scattering of random other quote (often with minimal context or parity), and then a handful of media commentaries stitching things together into a wider narrative. Simply put, I don't think that's enough. When I read that a series of initially unrelated events may have been a substantial factor in a Presidential election, I want more weighty commentary at the FAC level than the Baltimore Sun. Yes, I know this was only a year ago, but where's the scholarly analysis?  Where's the historical perspective?  Also, setting aside concerns about the article's fundamental premise, there are other objections from the last FAC that were never attended to: a lead not in compliance with WP:MOSLEAD and claims with multiple references that do not have them presented in numerical order, for example. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose: I'm afraid I must agree with Squeamish Ossifrage on most points. I haven't specifically examined what feedback went unresolved from the previous nomination, but I think this article is fundamentally flawed and cannot become a Featured Article. Items seem to have been collected for the purpose of analysis, but there are no strong sources supporting this overall analysis as an encyclopedic topic. Therefore, this is an acute case of WP:SYNTH. You might have a case for a Featured List if the sourced statements are maintained and the pseudo-analysis and implied conclusions are removed. List of rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012? -- Laser brain  (talk)  20:20, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Graham Colm (talk) 23:24, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.