Wikipedia:Featured article review/Supreme Court of the United States/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 10:33, 28 April 2007.

Review commentary

 * Messages left at User talk:Lord Emsworth, United States, Law, Politics, and U.S. Supreme Court cases. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 21:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

There are several issues: 1a) Some areas are a bit disorganized, such as "Quarters"; this section is very short and lacks general information on the structure of the building. 1c) There are only 5 inline citations for a moderately large article. 3) The seal at the top is corrupted, and should be replaced. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;   &spades;  15:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I concur with everything you said. Let's see if anyone responds. Maybe if I have time I'll track down some of the people who helped make it an FA and notify them. Aaron Bowen 19:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I edited some sections for clarity, but I don't want to be the final arbiter of the entire article because some of it, particularly the historical sections, are outside my area of expertise. ---Axios023 03:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments. See also needs attention, per WP:LAYOUT.  Important articles should be incorporated in the text where possible, minimizing See also.  External links should be pruned per WP:EL and WP:NOT.  References are incompletely formatted and have no recognizable consistent bibliographic style.  All web sources should have publisher, last access date, and author/pub date where available.  Quotes section has one quote&mdash;could be worked into the text.  Dashes are used incorrectly&mdash;see WP:DASH.  Templates (e.g.; further information) are employed mid-section&mdash;see WP:LAYOUT.  The current membership table is unsightly, with one long column last.  Mixed reference styles&mdash;some inline, others cite.php.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 00:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * remove not nearly enough citations or footnotes.--Sefringle 20:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Suggested FA criteria concerns are organization (2), citations (1c), and images (3). Marskell 09:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Citations (not footnotes) are a problem here. I'd also like to see a copy-edit, which shouldn't take long. Here are examples in the lead of easy-to-fix problems:
 * "United States" occurs three times in the opening, short sentence; reword the middle occurrence.
 * "Each term consists of alternating two week intervals. During the first interval, the court is in session ('sitting') and hears cases, and during the second interval, the court is recessed to consider and write opinions on cases it has heard." Hyphen for "two week". Remove "and hears cases" as obvious. Lots of "ands", so use a semicolon after "cases" instead. Better structure.
 * Ungainly repetition: "the Court's caseload. The court's".

It's worth fixing. Tony 00:16, 14 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Remove. Little attempt has been made to increase the number of citations. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;   &spades;  05:10, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Remove per 1c. LuciferMorgan 21:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.