Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Fountain pen

Fountain pen

 * Article is no longer a featured article.

Not a featured article for these reasons:

Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 01:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The picture caption "Comes in 12 different colors, is refillable with a cartridge and costs less than $5 each" is an advertisement.
 * "...regarded by many serious writers" is weasel words.
 * No references, although there are many external links.
 * A bit too many external links. Of the 37, 12 are labeled as commercial sites or stores.
 * The sentence "Although the most common nibs end in a round point of various sizes (fine, medium, broad), other nib shapes are available. Examples of this are oblique, reverse oblique, stub and italic" needs some explanation of what the different nibs do.
 * The lead is a bit on the short side.
 * Too many lists.
 * Remove, lack of references is a killer. Though it's obviously an article that someone's spent a lot of time on, and would be a nice project to get back into shape. Christopher Parham (talk) 08:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * remove no refs Zzzzz 14:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Remove, no references. Nice link farm at the bottom, too! —Kirill Lok s hin 16:56, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. Link farm is bad.  This is the diff from when the featured note was put at Talk:Fountain pen.  Jkelly 01:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Remove. No references. - Taxman Talk 04:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)