Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/IPod/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. 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.

The article was not promoted 06:17, 31 January 2007.

[edit] iPod

I've been watching the article evolve for the past few months and feel it deserves to be nominated for FA again after 2 years. Every piece has an inline citation, the prose is more than adequate for such a topic, and there are several well made diagrams explaining the article. It is stable and has been a GA for quite a while. Andman8 02:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Support per above Andman8 02:58, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. Please format all the references consistently, and ideally, add access dates to all online citations. Titoxd^(?!?) 02:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment External jumps are still in the text, few references have spaces after punctuation, some references are just URLs, and See also has a red link. I really don't like the layout, everything seems squashed together. M3tal H3ad 03:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Sorry but this article isn't yet ready to be nominated as a featured article. Most of the suggestions from the peer review haven't been done yet. And the article needs a major copy edit, especially after the iPhone additions. Can we withdraw the nomination until there's some sort of consensus on when it's ready? --IE 09:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose; I agree with IE, it's not ready. There are still paragraphs which are completely unreferenced, and the prose is not nearly good enough. Trebor 16:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• The criticisms section lacks any mention of vendor lock-in. This must be addressed. Raul654 03:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
  • ...Are you suggesting moving the criticisms in the iTunes Store section to the main Criticisms section? --IE 23:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
    • An Ipod without Itunes is effectively an expensive paperweight. It loses all its music functionality and becomes nothing more than a portable USB hard drive. If you do not want to use Itunes, or you have an unsupported OS, you are out of luck. That's what is meant by vendor lock in. This needs to be stated in the article. Raul654 02:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose Too long and detailed. Reads like an ad. Has too many encyclopedic details which belong on an Ipod fansite. --Indolences 03:53, 31 January 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.