Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yerevan/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 GrahamColm 17:24, 15 August 2012.

Yerevan

 * Nominator(s): Yerevanci (talk) 02:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I think that the article pretty much meets the FA criteria and deserves to be featured on the main page. Yerevanci (talk) 02:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose Sorry, but the article currently contains large quantities of unreferenced material, and so it clearly doesn't meet the criteria. It also contains lots of single sentence paragraphs, and the copyright status of quite a few of the photos seems questionable. I think that this should be withdrawn. Nick-D (talk) 08:56, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Yerevanci, are you able to find one or two collaborators to work this one up properly? Also, it needs an image audit for size and location. Probably there are too many. My personal pref is for larger pics, right-side only. Please experiment with narrow to wide window widths on your screen to see how poorly wiki-software handles text–image relations. Tony   (talk)  07:43, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Oppose Agree to the above, other issues to check:
 * the history section lacks chronological order (in some parts) and narrative flow.
 * the article contains a lot of lists, which should be trimmed for notability and rephrased as prose, where possible.
 * it would be better to extract 1-2 main facts from the "etymology" quote and rephrase them as regular prose, details about vowel and consonant shifts are probably not notable enough for a summary article (see WP:SUMMARY). Despite its name most etymology sections give only a general overview about a terms etymological background.
 * the gallery needs to be checked (see WP:GALLERIES for gallery criteria: all images should have specific encyclopedic value and a common theme, when bundled into a gallery). GermanJoe (talk) 11:43, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


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