Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Scotland/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 00:11, 12 May 2007.

Scotland
I don't see why not. Perfect article, over 80 refs, well written. Already a GA. Eaomatrix 19:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose major refferencing problems, with multiple sections entirely unsourced. Also, why is this in Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification? Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose as per multiple clean up tags and lack of references. At the moment, I'm surprised this even passed at GA level and also managed to get through a GA review. Try and find some references for those unsourced sections and then think about putting the article up for FAC. --Phill talk Edits 12:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not ready; suggest an extended stint at  peer review to get the article in shape for FAC.  Some samples only of problems.  1a, prose, in the lead we find an incomplete sentence, not punctuated, with incorrect use of italics.  (Although does have membership via the United Kingdom as does England, Wales and Northern Ireland).  No special characters in section headings, per WP:MSH.  Footnotes not formatted (see WP:CITE/ES).  National symbols is a list that should be converted to compelling prose.  Severely undercited; here's a random example &mdash; All Scottish universities attract a high percentage of overseas students, and many have links with overseas institutions.  Single years are not wikilinked; see WP:MOSNUM and WP:CONTEXT).  See also and Further templates belong at the top of the section, see WP:LAYOUT.  Please check capitalization usage in Flora and fauna.  Please see WP:UNITS.  Incorrect use of WP:DASH.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 13:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Sandy. There's definitely a number of good things here, though. -- Phoenix  (talk) 00:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, the politics section is out of date! The national symbols section is listy, and the famous Scots section is just a sourceless stub. There are lots of peacock/weasel words in there as well. -- Nydas (Talk) 09:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
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