Wikipedia:Featured article review/Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey/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) 4:07, 15 January 2022 (UTC).

Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey

 * Notified: principal author and FAC nominator not notified as they are banned, Alansohn, Neutron, WP NJ, WP Politics, WP USA, noticed Dec. 12, see below for why this is here this early

Review section
I was granted permission by Nikkimaria to take this one to FAR only two weeks after the notice, as this is a bit of a special case. The original FAC nominator is banned, and was found to have had a history of hoaxing/fake references. When looking into this one, I detected two instances of failed verification while checking only a single small part of the article. While the failed verification text has since been removed, it had been in the article at the time of the FAC. Given the history of the nominator and the fact that I didn't check most of the article, that is cause for concern.

Aside from the potential verifiability issues, there is also uncited text, heavy use of the state legal code where secondary sources would be better, and a weighting issue, as the 2009 election is given more detail that the next three put together. Hog Farm Talk 22:46, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy Move to FARC; I suggest one week in FAR, and one week in FARC, at most (on the off-chance that someone wants to do a complete rewrite). Sandy Georgia (Talk)  22:50, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, accelerated process - needs a complete rewrite, which is probably outside the purview of FAR; we can't trust the sourcing here. Hog Farm Talk 14:55, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, accelerated process per above (t &#183; c)  buidhe  19:22, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, posthaste per the serious concerns above. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:30, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, accelerated process no one is stepping forward to edit this, and if there are serious hoaxing concerns these will need to be addressed quickly. Z1720 (talk) 01:01, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * ? Hog Farm Talk 01:05, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include sourcing (failed verification) and overreliance on primary sources. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:36, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Nikkimaria (talk) 04:07, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delist - needs a top-to-bottom rewrite, given the tendencies of the original FAC nominator. Hog Farm Talk 06:56, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delist. Tagged as lacking reliable references. DrKay (talk) 13:07, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delist – This article, in its current state, is far from meeting FA criteria. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:34, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delist – no improvements; plenty of problems remain. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:17, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.