Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tupac Shakur/archive2


 * 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 Karanacs 12:59, 29 July 2010.

Tupac Shakur

 * Nominator(s): McYel (talk) 00:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

It's been over a decade since he passed away, and I am nominating Tupac Shakur's Wikipedia article for featured status. Here are some logical reasons why you should support me:


 * Detailed and well written. Easy to follow along.
 * It's neutral and has links to statements of opinions that people have made.
 * It is composed entirely from verifiable information and is absolutely fully referenced. There's not a single missing citation.
 * Not too long, not too short. The intro is a good summary. A reasonable number of images, all of which are sourced.
 * Covers a very notable topic (a man widely considered as the greatest and most influential rapper of all time) and is an excellent educational source for someone whose interested in learning more about 2pac.

Those are some of my reasons, but the main one is the fact that this article meets all of Wikipedia's FA criteria. I hope that others are going to agree with me. McYel (talk) 00:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Strong oppose This will get summarily removed by the coordinators, as it is a driveby nom, but there are several problems just from a quick glance
 * Lead is too short
 * Rap career section entirely unsourced
 * Random blogspots and wordpress used
 * Unformatted references everywhere

I'm sure someone who follows rap (I don't at all) will probably find content problems as well


 * Oppose unreliable sources throughout (example one example two which is probably a copyright violation also wordpress blog tripod.com site), deadlinks (report), references lacking publishers or other bibliographical details, short one sentence paragraphs ("About.com named Shakur the most influential rapper ever."), unreferenced opinion ("Throughout the album, Shakur continues to focus on the themes of pain and aggression, making this album one of the emotionally darker works of his career."). Ealdgyth - Talk 12:11, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


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