Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sitakunda Upazila/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 by User:SandyGeorgia 00:46, 9 September 2008.

Sitakunda Upazila

 * Nominator(s): Aditya (talk • contribs)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because it is comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral and stable. It also has an appropriate lead section, an appropriate structure and consistent citations. There may be minor issues with "engaging, even brilliant" prose, but that, with a little help, can be sorted out easily. I may also add that is already has gone through two exhaustive peer review, and an equally meticulous GA review, on top of long discussions on a few other issues. I am sure the article is ready for this one last hurdle. Aditya (talk • contribs) 16:59, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Image Comments
 * Image:ChandranathHillandMandir2.JPG - template issue with the licensing
 * Image:Fishing boat on Bay of Bengal.JPG has a date mark, which could be removed by cropping or image editing.
 * All other images are free, have proper license and author attribution (via OTRS, or self). Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk  ) 17:53, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Both images fixed. Aditya (talk • contribs) 02:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, the 2nd image (boat on Bay of Bengal) was taken near the St. Martin's Island, which is quite far away from the Sitakunda upazila area. Why is it relevant to this article? --Ragib (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It's a bay of Bengal fishing boat of the generic kind. Using this image here is like putting the picture of a giraffe taken at Uganda put into the story on Tanzania. The giraffe matters, not where the picture was taken. Aditya (talk • contribs) 09:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:NatarajaHA.jpg should probably have an WP:OTRS or a link to the url of the original licence Fasach Nua (talk) 08:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. OTRS ticket added, it was already there, but in an unorthodox form. Aditya (talk • contribs) 09:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Comments
 * You've mixed using the Template:Citation with the templates that start with Cite such as Template:Cite journal or Template:Cite news. They shouldn't be mixed per WP:CITE.
 * The following deadlinked:
 * http://www.geol.sc.edu/barbeau/zahid_uddin_2005.pdf
 * http://www.phpgroupbd.com/unit/ship_breaking/index.php
 * http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/34/22126
 * http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/62/34085
 * Current ref 18 is to a 1952 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Surely you can find something more recent and less general?
 * What is ref 21? ''Bande Mataram (march 1908) page 7 (REf INRB, IOR/L/R/5/33)?
 * Current ref 33 (Prescot, Rupert) is lacking a publisher.
 * Please spell out abbreviations in the references. I have no idea what BBS is in refs 30, 31, etc.
 * What makes the following reliable sources?
 * http://www.asiatoursandtravel.com/tours-to-bangladesh/index.html (a travel agency)
 * http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/Scheepvaartnieuws/Pdf/scheepvaartnieuws/2005/juni/138-01-06-2005b.PDF (footnote needs to note it's a pdf also)
 * The following are lacking publishers:
 * Current ref 60 is lacking a publisher (Application of a ramp...)
 * Current ref 61 (Large sedimentiaon...)
 * Current ref 62 (Influence of overpressure...)
 * Current ref 63 (Miocene sedimentation...)
 * Current ref 66 (Population Census Wing)
 * Your references sometimes list the author with last name first and sometimes with first name first. Pick one and be consistent.
 * Current ref 70 (Raymond G. Gordon...) is actually an online version of a book, and it requests that it be cited as given on the bottom of the page (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cit) and as a book.
 * Current ref 73 (Urban mass transportation..) are Imon Chowdhooree the author? If so the authors need to be listed first like most of the rest of your references. I see other examples that appear to be authors listed after the titles. Authors should be listed first.
 * Some of your references go "Retrieved on (linked date) some of them go (year-month-day). PIck one and be consistent.
 * Current ref 90 (Facing the Deadline) is a .doc file, needs to be noted as such.
 * Is it the New Age or The New Age? I believe it should be italicised always.
 * The footnotes are a mess and need a good copyedit. Examples are given above, but I'm sure I missed other examples of inconsitencies.
 * Otherwise sources look okay. Links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:27, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Oppose, until my issues and the sourcing problems are addressed. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:09, 9 September 2008 (UTC) Comments from : I'll try to come back later. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:39, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Consecutive inline citations should be in numerical order.
 * "For much of its history, Sitakunda was ruled alternatively by various Buddhist rulers of Myanmar in the east and Muslims rulers of Bengal in the west." For-->during.
 * Plenty of overlinking.
 * "Sitakunda is renowned for its numerous Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist shrines." Numerous is unhelpful here; might as well get rid of it.
 * "Among its notable temples are the Chandranath Temple (a Shakti Peetha or holy pilgrimage site), Vidarshanaram Vihara (founded by the scholar Prajnalok Mahasthavir), and the Hammadyar Mosque (founded by Sultan Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah)." I didn't know that a mosque was a temple.
 * "These pilgrimage sites along with the hill range and the eco-park are the attractions of Sitakunda as a tourist destination." Awkward sentence.
 * "Despite its diverse population, the area has seen communal strife, including attacks on places of worship." The area cannot "see", use a more active verb than that.
 * "There have been reports of activity by the Islamic militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh since the early 2000s." What type of activity?
 * "The first potential for a ship breaking industry appeared in 1964 when Chittagong Steel House started scrapping MD Alpince, a 20,000 metric tons (19,684 long tons) Greek ship that had been accidentally beached near Fouzdarhat by a tidal bore four years earlier." Hyphenate "metric ton" and take away the "s".
 * "Approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Sitakunda Town is the Labanakhya saltwater hot spring, which has been proposed as a source of geothermal energy." Simpler wording:"approximately"-->about.


 * Damned be this bugger real life. I've almost out cold last few days, and they call it work. I'd rather call it hell. Pardon, guys. I promise to work on the issues raised here in another day or two. Nothing too difficult there, not till now, at least. I am sure I won't be too late or anything. Cheers. Aditya (talk • contribs) 14:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Status? This FAC has been up for ten days, and has a long list of sourcing issues. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 23:56, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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