Wikipedia:Featured article review/Hero of Belarus

Hero of Belarus

 * Article is no longer a featured article.

Major review commentary
Criterion 2a is no longer satisfied, if it ever was, and the article needs a major audit for language and structure. In particular, I noted the following problems as representative of broader issues that need to be addressed if this is to remain a FA.
 * There are stubby paragraphs and stubby sections.
 * What is "economic excellence"?
 * There are many redundancies; e.g., "seven recipients still living today" (still and today?), an idle "various", "Photo of ..." in the caption, which is pretty obvious, and much more.
 * Wrongly located "only".
 * "The title was created by the Belarus Supreme Soviet on 13 April 1995"—we're told twice at the top.
 * Unclear meaning of italic formatting.
 * Wrongly formatted bullets (it's a single sentence, so should be formatted accordingly—or is it?).

For a FA, it is of questionable comprehensiveness (2b): nothing about the political/social context of the award, and whether it has equivalents in other ex-Soviet countries. How is it different from the Soviet-period awards?

Samirat: "... still living today" is perfectly valid. While it may be slightly redundant, it doesn't sound redundant, and is not at all incorrect. Any problem is purely technical, and rather irrelevant. Some of the paragraphs are rather stubby, it's true, so I think FARC is not out of the question, but many of the critiques are critical to the point of being ridiculous.

Tony 15:35, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I would move it to FARC, few refs, rather stubby, and missing sections. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 05:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I think the idea is that it goes to FARC only after its two-week major review. Correct me if I'm wrong. Tony 13:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Go ahead and move it. Given how FA's have changed in nearly over a year, I think that what I done here is not enough for what is being asked for today. And admitedly, I cannot find much about this title, given that Belarus is a country that does not have much good information on small subjects like this. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 06:14, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

FARC commentary
I quickly moved it to FARC per the request of Zscout370 who is the writer of this article in IRC, and the review is very unlikely to be fixed I would vote Remove now because of that. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 21:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Remove for now. As stated before, there is a lot more information that FA's need now that I cannot provide with this article. The English sounds weird, and that is my fault. The article is a bit disorganized, but that is my fault there too. It was good while it lasted, but I am not upset at it being demoted, at least it will still be on the Wiki. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 22:05, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Remove as per above, including Zscout, who has graciously agreed that the article does not meet current FA standards. Tony 09:47, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll probably spruce it up now and see if it works for WP:GA. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 20:06, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Remove per Tony. Far from being 'our best work'. Todor→Bozhinov 15:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)