Wikipedia:Featured article review/Roy Welensky/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) 5:18, 20 June 2020 (UTC).

Roy Welensky

 * ''Notified: South Africa WikiProject talk page notification 18 April 2020

Review section
I am nominating this featured article for review because it lacks HQRS, as pointed out by Buidhe. It relies extensively on a PRIMARY, and is worded in a POV manner. Eisfbnore (会話) 02:41, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Issues
 * Sourcing Losing patience with the British, Welensky took a harder line against them. to Welensky's own memoir is OR and, a breach of PRIMARY
 * Citation formatting is not consistent – we have shortened footnotes both with and without harv anchors. Also, brackets are not consistently applied.
 * Unacceptable SELFREF: To this end, Welensky organised a conference in February 1949 to investigate the idea of a federation is sourced to Wikipedia itself
 * Editiorial judgment: "insisted", "rebuffed", "felt", "stirred into a frenzy", "after much deliberation", "highly critical", "determined", "convinced", "disgusted", "won a significant political battle", "paternalistic", all sourced to Welensky's own memoir
 * Western bias: "Hastings Banda [had] great difficulty remembering his native African language" -- perhaps interesting to know which African language
 * Tagged with citation needed several places
 * Excessive use of generalized history book of Rhodesia from 1977

That's only after a five minutes' read. Eisfbnore (会話) 08:42, 21 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Move to FARC, very little progress, and ... Wikipedia as a source? Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  21:01, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Move to FARC per Sandy. buidhe 21:03, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

FARC section

 * Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and neutrality. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:04, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Nikkimaria (talk) 15:18, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delist Serious deficiencies and no one working to address them. buidhe 21:11, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delist A third of the references point to Welensky himself, plus two blogs of dubious reliability and Wikipedia as a source. Apart from that, there are a number of citation needed tags and some work is needed to either remove non-neutral language/sentences or properly source some heavy claims. For instance: "Although not of British ancestry, Welensky was intensely pro-British, a distinctive sentiment among Rhodesians." This sentence is not neutral at all and needs a better source to back it up other than a foreword in a book. RetiredDuke (talk) 16:14, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delist. Sourcing and neutrality concerns. DrKay (talk) 13:18, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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