Wikipedia:Featured article review/Michael Woodruff/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) 3:22, 19 February 2022 (UTC).

Michael Woodruff

 * Notified: User talk:Cool3; WT:BIO; Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia; WP:AWNB; WT:MED; WP:NZWNB; talk-page notice (2021-12-18) 

Review section
I have significant concerns about this 2006 promotion, most notably with respect to sourcing. The article directly cites Woodruff's autobiography far more than I'm comfortable with, but more importantly it relies very heavily on various tributes by Peter Morris, who, by his own admission, knew Woodruff "quite well professionally" and "obtained considerable information from" the aforesaid autobiography. As such, the grand majority of this article is sourced either to Woodruff or to his friends—hardly the sort of high-quality sourcing that the criteria demand. Additionally, SandyGeorgia has kindly added several additional sources to the further reading section: the fact that none of them are cited in the article raises comprehensiveness concerns as well. Since neither these issues nor the additional ones mentioned in the talk-page notice (e.g. formatting and original research) have been addressed at all, it's worth considering whether the article should retain its current status. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:08, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, no edits. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  21:52, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC – there unfortunately hasn't been any engagement. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 01:07, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, nothing happening. Hog Farm Talk 14:22, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and comprehensiveness. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:20, 5 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Delist no edits to address sourcing issues discussed above (t &#183; c)  buidhe  08:59, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delist, considerable unaddressed issues. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  17:53, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delist - heavy overreliance on Morris at the expense of other recent scholarship; no edits so far in 2022. Hog Farm Talk 14:54, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Nikkimaria (talk) 03:22, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.