Wikipedia:Featured article review/Gbe languages/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 YellowAssessmentMonkey 06:16, 30 August 2010.

Review commentary

 * Notified: User talk:Mark Dingemanse, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa‎, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Benin, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ghana, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Togo, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nigeria.

FA from 2005, with 1c issues throughout. Significant amount of unsourced and uncited content in the article, whole paragraphs, subsections, etc. Lots of small subsections, very short paragraphs, and one-sentence-long-paragraphs. Two images used, File:Gbe languages.png and File:Doctrina Christiana - Y explicacion de sus Misterios en nuestro idiom Español, y en lengua Arda (first page).png, could use an image review. The article could use some layout improvements, and overall copyediting for flow and ease of readability. -- Cirt (talk) 16:06, 31 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment regarding criterion three issues:
 * File:Doctrina Christiana - Y explicacion de sus Misterios en nuestro idiom Español, y en lengua Arda (first page).png - if this is from a work published in 1929, why is a PMA license being used? In what country was it published and was it done so in compliance with US formalities?
 * Per MOS:CAPTION, periods should not be used with nominal groups. Эlcobbola  talk 16:41, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Unencyclopedic tone: "It should be noted that none of the Gbe languages has all of the above sixteen vowel qualities. In general, each Gbe lect makes use of a subset of twelve vowels, seven oral and five nasalised. The vowels i ĩ u ũ e o ɛ̃ ɔ ɔ̃ a ã are attested in all Gbe languages." The lack of sourcing is so obvious I don't think I need to do a paragraph by paragraph detail here. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 18:28, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: note these issues:
 * This section "Tone" has no citations.
 * The section "Morphology" has no citations and are completely unsourced. JJ98 (talk) 18:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I've have checked the section Geography and demography and there no citations. This falls into section 1c. JJ98 (talk) 06:20, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Featured article criterion of concern are prose, sourcing and images  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll '')  02:32, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Delist per review by Cirt, TenPoundHammer and Elcobbola. None of this article hasn't been updated, but concerns have been raised. JJ98 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Delist. Concerns not addressed.  Эlcobbola  talk 14:24, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist per my concerns. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 19:58, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist, not seeing significant changes here. -- Cirt (talk) 04:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
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