Wikipedia:Featured article review/Walter Model/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 Casliber via FACBot (talk) 2:07, 25 December 2015 (UTC).

Walter Model

 * Notified: Hongooi, WikiProject Germany, WikiProject Military history

Review section
I am nominating this featured article for review because as noted on the talk page last year it is tagged for citation in many places, some of which contain peacock and weasel words such as "his audacity and improvisational skills (and the tactical ineptness of the Russians) had brought him rich rewards", "he felt great displeasure towards officers bearing the red trouser-stripe", "meteoric rise" and "His stubbornness, energy and ruthlessness were more qualities that Hitler found admirable, and Model's blunt and direct manner of speaking also made an impression". These examples are also typical of some of the prose employed in the article, which is not dispassionate or idiomatic, such as "he gave the U.S. 12th Army Group a bloodied nose". In places, the prose is also overcomplicated, such as "The statement that he was no strategist can be agreed to because the conditions for that existed for no general in the Third Reich". DrKay (talk) 21:25, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Comment As a quick comment, the article notes that Model expected to be prosecuted for very large scale war crimes following the war, but his involvement in these is never discussed. Nick-D (talk) 09:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Move to FARC. No-one working on it. DrKay (talk) 11:40, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

FARC section
Issues remain as above: Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:07, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delist per opening statement. DrKay (talk) 19:58, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delist - it needs a fair bit of work. Hchc2009 (talk) 19:10, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delist No longer pof FA standard Nick-D (talk) 07:02, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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