Wikipedia:Featured article review/Emu/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 removed by Dana boomer 19:34, 4 April 2011.

Review commentary

 * Notified: WP:BIRDS, User talk:GamerPro64

I posted multiple concerns on the talk page over a month ago, and only two were addressed. The rest, listed below, have not:


 * One [verification needed] dating from 12/07 under "Diet".
 * [Citation needed] under Cultural Referenes.
 * This has now been referenced. MeegsC | Talk 14:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Citation errors:
 * Synthesis in using search results to verify that certain places are named "Emu something or other". Is that statement even needed, much less with this shaky "source"?
 * Is it the fact that the citation is a search result that you're objecting to? Because the Australian government would seem to me to be a pretty reliable source for the place names.   MeegsC | Talk 14:54, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * My concern is that it's entirely possible that some of those places weren't named for the emu — the source doesn't say that they were named for the bird. They could've been named from a bastardization of some other word, for instance. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 20:49, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Okaaaaayyyy... Rather unlikely, but I see your point.  Not sure how/where we'll find a single source for all 600 places, but perhaps it's out there. MeegsC | Talk 23:18, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Major 1a (prose) issues. Every sentence under "Classification" begins with "the", as do several adjacent sentences under "Description". Several sentences under "Diet" begin with "Emus".
 * Last paragraph of "Economic value" is unsourced, as are large portions of "Cultural reference".

So we have failure in 1c mostly, with some 1a.

Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Featured article criteria mentioned in the review section include referencing and prose. Dana boomer (talk) 20:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delist, minimal improvement since FAR started. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:28, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delist - Yeah, like TPH, there's not a lot of improvement on the article that would let it still be a Featured Article. GamerPro64 (talk) 01:20, 19 March 2011 (UTC)


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