Wikipedia:Featured article review/Sheikh Mujibur Rahman/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 00:30, 12 May 2009.

FAR commentary
Notified WikiProject Bangladesh, WikiProject Biography, and Ragib, who seems to be the only top contributor active.

I believe the article fails primarily on 1(c). There's far too large of a reliance on tertiary sources, and the article is lacking in its use of scholarly sources. In addition, there are paragraphs that are entirely unsourced.

A few comments about references:

Refs 1 and 3 are originally sourced to: “POET OF POLITICS, FATHER OF THE NATION BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN Published by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust, Bangabandhu Bhaban, Road-32, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh.” Um, perhaps not the most reliable source, considering their close association with the subject of this article.

Ref. 9 relies on a primary source – the telegram sent by Archer Blood detailing the atrocities he had witnessed in Bangladesh. This ref is used to source the following text: “The Pakistani army's campaign to restore order soon degenerated into a rampage of terror and bloodshed.” I have issue with the usage of a primary source to reference a potentially inflammatory statement. Instead, it should be cited to a few independent scholarly works.

Refs 16, 18 and 23 are broken – could not find the original source during a quick Google search. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:51, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The process of replacing and adding sources have began. Aditya (talk • contribs) 15:00, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Request Can you, please, tag the parts that need an inline cite? I may be too blind to locate them on my own.  Aditya (talk • contribs) 17:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 18:22, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Fact tags added. Please be mindful of the necessity for high-quality sources to satisfy criterion 1c. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 20:13, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Images
 * The fair-use rationale of File:Sheikh mujibur rahman.jpg is invalid if the other images on the page are truly public domain.
 * Note that for File:Mujib49.gif, File:Mujib-Suhra.gif, File:Mujib54.gif, File:P015.gif and File:P217.gif it is the first date of publication from which the fifty years should be counted not from creation. As detailed at the source of the images, all of these pictures are scanned from "Father of the Nation", published by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust of Bangladesh in August 1997. Consequently, (1) Bangladeshi rather than Pakistani copyright law may apply, and (2) there is no evidence that the pictures were published in Pakistan before 31 December 1958.
 * The fair-use rationales for File:Mujib7March.jpg and File:P193.gif are a little weak. Please expand per Non-free use rationale guideline.
 * I don't think fair-use applies to File:P191.gif. It's just two Asian men sat in chairs. That doesn't impart information which can only be imparted by an image. DrKiernan (talk) 14:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Suggested FA criteria concern is citations, copyright. Also note the recent change to WP:WIAFA (1c) requiring "high-quality" sources.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! '') 00:28, 29 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delist, per FA criteria concerns, other issues mentioned above, and referencing issues throughout. Cirt (talk) 07:44, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist citation needed tags; image copyrights. DrKiernan (talk) 12:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.