Wikipedia:Featured article review/Richard Hakluyt/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) 6:31, 7 January 2024 (UTC).

Richard Hakluyt

 * Notified: Jacklee, Kognos, Deb, WP Biography, WP England, WP Geography, WP London, WP University of Oxford, WP Virginia, noticed 2023-07-28

Review section
As I noted on the article's talk page, the sources used in this article give me concerns about WP:FACR #1c and #1b. The article is sourced primary to a couple of web sources, several very old works from the 1800s, and some tertiary sources over 100 years old. A few snippets of the article are even direct word-for-word from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. This is problematic from a featured article criteria perspective, due to the existence of the Mancall 2007 work listed in the further reading - a modern biography of Hakluyt published by Yale. As noted in my comments on the article's talk page, there is also very extensive discussion of Hakluyt in academic journals over the last few decades, although those of course will not be as comprehensive as the entire Mancall biography. I don't see how this article can meet 1b and 1c of the FA criteria using only the sources currently used. Hog Farm Talk 17:47, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, issues unaddressed. Hog Farm Talk 22:59, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC no one has addressed the sourcing concerns in the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:12, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC, issues remain. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  03:10, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and comprehensiveness. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:38, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Nikkimaria (talk) 16:31, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delist. Most of the sources are from 50 or more years ago. Needs update and clarification from more modern scholarship. DrKay (talk) 17:30, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delist - sourcing needs redone - it's heavily reliant on old PD tertiary sources when Hakluyt has been the subject of extensive modern literature. Hog Farm Talk 18:05, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delist sourcing problems remain. Z1720 (talk) 18:13, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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