Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Villain

Villain

 * Article is no longer a featured article.

Far from comprehensive, it should provide information on the many different villainous archetypes, on their usage in different media over the course of history, etc. The list of quotes is out of place, there are no references. Article could also use externals and references to literature. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 13:22, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * Remove, I had come to the same conclusion. - Taxman 22:03, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * Remove. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:17, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Remove, just an introduction. :ChrisG 11:52, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Remove. It's quite a nice essay, there's just nothing encyclopedic about it. I tried to think how I could help the article go deeper, not to mention wider, but decided it's hopeless. The contributors have done a good job, it's the subject itself that's the problem. The concept is too huge and vague and variable, it's just a bad idea to bring encyclopedic pretensions to it. It's like trying to catch a cloud in a net.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (talk)]] 07:59, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Remove. It is a diffuse mess that strays from the core of the topic, the quotes are unnecessary and just clutter things up, and the pictures don't help either. Someone needs to break out the Weed wacker and whack about 3/4 of the article away, and then build up something with more structure and coherence. On second thought, the best thing might be to make this a disambiguation page, and then have separate articles for Villains in literature, Film villains, and perhaps even Cultural villains. gK [[User talk:GK|&iquest;?]] 10:44, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)