Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Clown

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[edit] Clown

This article is a really good one. I learned a lot about clowns. I think it is a very comprehensive article. dq 19:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. No inline citations, but lots and lots of "Suggested reading" and the bottom half of the article is random lists. Jkelly 21:04, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
• Object:

• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at WP:LEAD. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.

• The article will need references. See WP:CITE and WP:V for more information.

• Please provide WP:CITE information for references/footnotes. See also WP:CITE/ES; templates like {{Cite web}} and {{Cite book}} may be useful here.
• This article needs footnotes, preferably in the cite.php format recommended by WP:WIAFA. Simply, enclose inline citations, with WP:CITE or WP:CITE/ES information, with <ref>THE FOOTNOTE</ref>. At the bottom of the article, in a section named “References” or “Footnotes”, add <div class="references-small"><references/></div>.

• Please reorder/rename the last few sections to follow guidelines at WP:GTL. (specifically "Quotes")

• Per WP:MOS#Headings, headings generally do not start with the word "The". For example, ==The Biography== would be changed to ==Biography==.

• Per WP:MOS#Headings, headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.

• Per WP:MOS, the first letters of words in heading should not be capitalized unless: 1) it is a proper noun or 2) it is the first word of the heading.

• Per WP:WIAFA, Images should have concise captions.

• Images with fair use tags need fair use rationales - please see WP:FUC. Several images are missing fair use rationales.

• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) maybe too long- consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per WP:SS.

• This article is a bit list-weighty; in other words, some of the lists should be converted to prose (paragraph form).

• Please alphabetize the categories and interlanguage links.
• Thanks, AndyZ _t 23:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. No references and move all those lists to List of clowns or something similar. Pepsidrinka 00:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose Tobyk777 21:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC)