Wikipedia:Featured article review/Restoration spectacular/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) 0:18, 8 November 2020 (UTC).

Restoration spectacular

 * ''Notified: User:Finnusertop, User:Bishonen, User:Geogre, User:Bunchofgrapes, User:Rjensen, WikiProject Theatre, WikiProject London, WikiProject England.

Review section
Nominating due to unresolved problems with tone and flowery language. -- Beland (talk) 00:41, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

This writing is just atrocious for an encyclopedia article. Leaving aside neutrality, I could barely understand what was being discussed from the lead, and to the extent that I could this is more an essay. Restoration comedy, while not an FA, is much better written in that I could more easily deduce that a type of play is the subject of the article. While I don't entirely oppose flowery language in an FA, there's a way to do it (Chartwell) and a way not to do it (this). Notwithstanding all that, the last two paragraphs are completely uncited. Overall, this needs work to even be a Good Article. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 02:16, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * John M Wolfson

Oh goodness, this is just a mess. Large quantities of uncited text, there's some points where statements don't seem to be supported by the citation (see reference 9), the whole thing is written like an essay. This is far from even a GA. 2005 promotion where no significant comments other than categorization were brought up. Definitely not an FA under modern standards. Hog Farm Bacon 18:03, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hog Farm

A vintage piece from 2004. Unless User:Bishonen feels like doing a lot of work integrating the huge number of academic sources used into inline citations, it's probably best to leave this alone, allowing it to slip beneath the FA waves. The results of today's generation of nit-pickers crawling all over it are unlikely to be beneficial. Johnbod (talk) 17:14, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Johnbod

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include prose and sourcing. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:27, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Nikkimaria (talk) 00:18, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delist. Tagged for unsourced statements and style issues. DrKay (talk) 10:47, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.