Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Shumi Maritsa/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 Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 09:09, 25 August 2018.

Shumi Maritsa

 * Nominator(s): Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 08:28, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

This article is about the anthem of Bulgaria from 1886 until 1947. Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 08:28, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi enthusiasm's always appreciated  :) but I don't think you can submit more than one FAC at a time, and as well as this, you also have Featured article candidates/Mila Rodino/archive1 open. Just FYI;  will confirm or refute this, but you might want to choose between them, or withdraw them both for a peer review or something. Take care!  —SerialNumber54129  paranoia / cheap sh*t room 16:23, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Done.--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 16:31, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Oppose, and suggest withdrawal. In my view, this article falls short of what we would be looking for at FAC. I suggest that you take it though GAC and peer review first, and you may also want to seek out a FAC mentor. These comments will, I hope, explain why I am concerned: I hope this doesn't come across as discouraging; I do encourage you to stick with the article, but it isn't ready yet. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:12, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The article is under-sourced. There are paragraphs, whole sections, and even blockquotes all lacking clear references.
 * In places the writing is very poor; e.g., Admired by the personality and charisma of General Mikhail Chernyayev, who commands the Bulgarian volunteers, Zhivkov decides to write a march dedicated to him. The original title of the song is "Chernyayev March", and is written in the melody of the poem "Sunshine".
 * While I'm not really in a position to judge the reliability of Bulgarian-language sources, some of them look far below the bar (Wordpress, ivelinaberova.com). Josh Milburn (talk) 17:12, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, bringing the article to the place you've mention doesn't seems like a good way to get an improvement. Only in FA this article gets the attention it needed. I've brought an article to GA for a month, and nothing has passed since. So with other articles on that section.--Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 06:00, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Jeromi, I understand the frustration but I will be archiving this and believe you'll still do better moving gradually towards another nomination through GAN and then PR (which although not an assessment like FAC and not always well-patronised, is at least another community review). Another avenue to explore is the FAC mentoring scheme. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:08, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 09:09, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
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