Wikipedia:Featured article review/Abbas Kiarostami/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was delisted by Nikkimaria via FACBot (talk) 6:27, 23 September 2017 (UTC).

Abbas Kiarostami

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Review section
I am nominating this featured article for review because it fails criteria 1a, b, c; 2c. This article was promoted back in 2007; Kiarostami has made three feature films since then, which are only briefly discussed in the article. I have also noted problems with close paraphrasing on the article's talk page. Additionally, there are many citation needed-tags in the prose. Gertanis (talk) 19:28, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Delist Per nom, needs a lot of work. It was a great article in 2007, one of the best on film people at the time but not close to current standards. Aside from obvious sourcing issues it is out of date and there's hundreds more books available now. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:17, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Comment – My plate is full at the moment, but if someone else searches proper critical commentary for expansion/revision of the article, there's plenty of useful stuff in issue 81 of Senses of Cinema. Gertanis (talk) 12:46, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include referencing, coverage, and close paraphrasing. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:50, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Delist - See comment above; no effort has been made to improve the article. --Gertanis (talk) 16:44, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Delist. In addition to the obvious citation tags (enough by themselves for delisting), I found MoS issues, image tagging problems, and even more plagiarism concerns than the ones mentioned on the Talk page. Some of those problems could be remedied by copy editing, but others need the attention of editors familiar with the sources. --RL0919 (talk) 14:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Delist. Tagged for citation needed since June 2016. DrKay (talk) 16:43, 10 September 2017 (UTC) Nikkimaria (talk) 16:27, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
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