Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Origins of the American Civil War

Origins of the American Civil War

 * Article is no longer a featured article.

1. Lead is way to short. 2. No references. 3. Rather too much sections, and the article lenght (87kb) is rather large - perhaps sth should be moved to subsections (this is not an objection per se, I like large articles, just a note). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 12:14, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Remove. I tend to agree even though I nominated this article for FA before. Although there is a notes section that does have specific cites and an overview section that acts as an expanded lead. This is odd and non-standard. A full lead section is needed as well as a references section (keep the notes section though or make them all inline). And the whole thing should be broken up into at least a few different articles with summaries left here. Bryan Derksen and I started on this at Talk:Origins of the American Civil War/Origins of the American Civil War but never got around to finishing. I'd like to do that and then resubmit this as a FAC again. --mav 15:08, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Remove. There's some resistance by other editors to adding a lead, which I don't have the inclination to fight over. Without a lead, I agree the article is not FA standard. Keep.  I'll do you a lead.  The references requirement is not retrospective, and this does have them anyway (albeit non-formatted).  The sections aren't disproportionate to the length- they're not too small.  Finally, the question of whether the information should be all on one page or divided up among different pages is a trivial housekeeping matter which I'm unable to get excited about either way. Mark1 01:55, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * How are they not restrospective? If so, the entire FARC would be usless. As our standards improve, we list here articles that either need to be brought up to them or removed. What was once a FA does not have a guaranteed future, and lack of references have been the downfall of many estabilished FAs, not only recent FACs. After a lead and references section are done I'll change my vote to abstain, not before. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 10:50, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As per Markalexander100. Filiocht | Talk 07:42, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Hydriotaphia 06:47, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Remove. Everyking 07:11, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Remove. KingTT 15:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)