Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Pope John Paul II

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[edit] Pope John Paul II

This is a marvelous article and deserves FAC status. SVera1NY 02:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

• Object. This article is virtually unreferenced except for the Pope's declining health and final days; although they are not, many sections appear highly unsystematic, perhaps because of their sheer length; a section labelled "Others" does not help the reader find anything and seems to contain a collection of factoids that ought to be integrated into the biographical material; and the vast majority of the images in it are copyrighted, added: many tagged as Fair Use but lacking supporting rationale. TCC (talk) (contribs) 02:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
  • A more careful count shows that of the 18 images on the page (not counting the coat of arms and the Euro coin) 2 of them are {{nolicense}}, 6 are {{fair use}} with no rationale given, 1 is {{Vatican}} and {{nolicense}} and so may or may not be available, 1 is {{somewebsite}}, and 1 {{Promotional}} but doesn't really meet the requirements for that tag and has no source given anyway. At least one of the images tagged {{PD}} (Image:JPIIassinattem81.jpeg) is dubious; the uploader was asked back in April for source and release information and has not responded. So out of 18 that's 12 with a potential problem. This needs to be addressed quite apart from FA candidacy. TCC (talk) (contribs) 04:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
• Object. The only point I agree with of the above is the general lack of references, but that a lone is a major problem. If this article were better cited, I would support it. - Cuivienen 03:19, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
• Object:
  1. The images Image:Pjp2c.jpg, Image:JP1meetsJP2.jpg do not have known copyright information.
  2. The image Image:Karol Wojtyla at 12.jpg is tagged as "public domain", but has no indication as to why it is.
  3. The images Image:PalliumJPII.jpg, Image:Pjp2b.jpg, Image:Toronto.jpg, Image:Yad Vashem.jpg, Image:John Paul.jpg have no source information.
  4. The image Image:JPIIassinattem81.jpeg has no source information and no indication as to why it is in the public domain.
  5. The image gallery in "Relations with other religions" doesn't appear to have a point to it and should be removed.

  --Carnildo 09:19, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I normally would not care too much, but this is pretty blatant. Image:Pope-poland.jpg is an copyrighted Associated Press file photo (check google if you wish), and has a false public domain message. I'm not saying the pictures should be removed, mind you. The easy solution here would be fore wikipedia to register in Vanuatu, but until then, I suppose this would have to be looked into. --sansvoix 00:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

• Object It could definatly use more on the changes he made to Vatican policy, such as his controversial decisions regarding Latin America. The Pope rather brutally clamped down on Liberation Theology. He excommunicated Marxist Bishops (who advocated "radical" things such as equality and land reform) but still supported clergy proping up right-wing dictatorships.--sansvoix 23:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
• Object beacuse of too few inline citations for such an important article. See first and second failed nominations for some previous comments as well.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 03:16, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. It seems to me that these problems have been fixed. It looks like an FA to me. -- Hurricane Ericarchive -- my dropsonde 03:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)