Wikipedia:Featured article review/Pan American World Airways/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 14:33, 16 July 2009.

Review commentary
The article has a severe lack of inline citations that would disqualify it from being even a good article. I posted requests on various WikiProject pages to ask for help to refimprove it, but so far it hasn't been refimproved. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:54, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Notified WikiProject Airlines, WikiProject Florida, WikiProject New York City, and WikiProject Miami

Image problems: File:Tran12G7.jpg: needs an LoC id number. Though it's likely to be PD, it's unlikely to be a federal US government image. File:PAA "The Americas" Route Map 1936.jpg and File:PAA San Francisco - Manila - Hong Kong Clipper Schedule.jpg require fair use rationales. DrKiernan (talk) 10:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * I've given the article a quick copy edit and added fact tags where needed.
 * The prose is fairly good, but the problems come with a lack of citations. I suspect that many of the fact tags could be filled by citations already existing in the article, but that requires someone with the inclination to do it.
 * The top of the China Clipper schedule is overlaid with text on my screen.
 * The Life Magazine citation needs to be completed.
 * Why is a description of the Boeing 307's problems commented out?
 * "Some time" is how long?
 * There's a run-on sentence in the Airline Deregulation Act paragraph.
 * The "19 security failures" sentence is awkward and unclear.


 * That's about it. The prose gets a bit less clear as the article goes on, and in the Bankruptcy section, it gets a bit convoluted. Despite that, the citations should be the first priority for anyone looking to improve the article. JKBrooks85 (talk) 23:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Suggested FA criteria concern are citations (spot-check showed that some 1-citation paras did not cover all the text), copyrights. Also note the recent change to WP:WIAFA (1c) requiring "high-quality" sources.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! '') 04:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: Looks like there have been lots of improvements. Still some 1c issues, in subsection Pan_American_World_Airways. Cirt (talk) 01:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist. I've given the article a copy edit, and the prose is good at the start but becomes borderline toward the end. The real problem is with the citations, which don't cover the whole article and need to repeated where facts and figures are mentioned. I think that some of the information for those facts is contained in citations that are already present, but they need to be repeated where required. Until the citations are improved, I can't support keeping it. JKBrooks85 (talk) 23:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist Improved, but 1c issues still exist and doesn't look anyone has been working on it recently. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:45, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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