Wikipedia:Featured article review/Médecins Sans Frontières/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 00:47, 1 September 2009.

Review commentary

 * Notified: WP Africa, WP France, WP Medicine, WP Spain, WP Organizations. Quadell, Xenophrenic

I am nominating this featured article for review because it appears to have degenerated and/or not kept up with our evolving standards. The lead looks odd and includes a rudimentary table of founders not included in the article proper. Citations are inconsistently formatted and occasionally appear incomplete, and some paragraphs lack any citations. Overall, a rather large percentage of citations appear to be to primary sources (i.e., MSF publications). Thus, I question whether the article, as it stands now, is really within reasonable distance of 1c and 2a, while having concerns that 2b, 2c and possibly 1a are lacking. Apologies if this nomination is lacking, this is my first FAR. Jclemens (talk) 05:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Images lack alt text as per WP:ALT. Eubulides (talk) 07:09, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Surely 22 external links to MSF are unnecessary? DrKiernan (talk) 11:16, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The bullets at the beginning look horrible and I dont know how to get red of them; a box appears around them.-- Rayqayza Dialga Weird 2210   15:21, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed the bullets, but probably the names of the founders do not need to be in the lead. &mdash; Mattisse  (Talk) 18:02, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: The group's work in Afghanistan should merit a mention other than in the "dangers" section. JKBrooks85 (talk) 08:34, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I am concerned that all of the information seems to come from the organization MFD. There may be additional issues regarding MFD that can give some context. See “Nationals” and “expatriates”: Challenges of fulfilling “sans frontières” (“without borders”) ideals in international humanitarian action and Humanitarianism in the Post-colonial era: the history Médecins Sans Frontières and Ethics, research and Medecins sans Frontieres &mdash; Mattisse  (Talk) 17:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed, there is an issue with WP:PRIMARY here. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 18:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Suggested FA criteria concern are citations, comprehensiveness, reliable sources (bias?), citations, alt text. Also note the recent change to WP:WIAFA (1c) requiring "high-quality" sources. FAQ?  YellowMonkey  ( cricket photo poll! '') paid editing=POV 01:53, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delist, per FA criteria concerns, above comments, particularly WP:PRIMARY. Cirt (talk) 06:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist. Someone needs to go through the article, find and cite 3rd party sources, and rewrite the text to match the sources. It will take quite some work. Eubulides (talk) 12:47, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.