Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/September 11 attacks/1

September 11 attacks

 * • Watch article reassessment page • Most recent review
 * Result: Delisted - see below. Geometry guy 23:27, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

There are a few issues with this article and I'm wondering if it should still be listed as a good article: So overall it's not a bad article but there are quite a few issues in my opinion. Laurent (talk) 21:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * There are several dead links among the references.
 * Some overlinking issues too. For instance al-Qaeda, bin Laden, Taliban and Pakistan are linked too many times. There are also links to states or cities like Indonesia, Malaysia or Hamburg which I think are not relevant to the article.
 * The "Long term effect" section doesn't seem comprehensive - in particular I would expect to see a subsection about the consequences on government policies all around the world regarding terrorism.
 * The "FBI investigation" section seems to short (only two sentences).
 * The pictures seem a bit random - for instance it's not clear why these two pictures are in the "Economic aftermath" section or this one in "International response". It seems they've been put there for decoration only. Also I would have expected to see at least one picture of Osama bin Laden in the section about him.

Coverage

 * Missing:
 * consequences on government policies all around the world regarding terrorism, per Laurent. --Philcha (talk) 13:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Excessive, not relevant:
 * The wikilink to roll is just basic aerodynamics, nothing about the struggle for the doomed plane on 9/11. --Philcha (talk) 13:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No need to name Felicia Dunn-Jones or Leon Heyward, it's enough that longer-term effects killed 2 more. --Philcha (talk) 13:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * "According to Jerrold Post, a professor of psychology at George Washington University and former CIA officer, the hijackers were well-educated, mature adults, whose belief systems were fully formed" --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Section "al-Qaeda and blowback" about the origins of al-Qaeda. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * "At that point, Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were in a period of transition, having just relocated back to Afghanistan from Sudan.[97] The 1998 African Embassy bombings and Bin Laden's 1998 fatwā marked a turning point, with bin Laden intent on attacking the United States" in section "Planning of the attacks". But the 1st and last sentences should stay. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * In facts it's easier to identify the parts that are relevant. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It's time for the article's nominator/defender to check the rest of the articles for excessive and irrelevant text. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Delisted
Given the work needed to bring this article back to GA status and the lack of interest in doing so, I have delisted it. Laurent (talk) 22:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)