Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/The Long and Winding Road

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[edit] The Long and Winding Road

Misunderstanding of featured criteria. Nomination withdrawn

The article does not use citations per (c), which requires the "supporting of facts with specific evidence and external citations...these include a "References" section where the references are set out, complemented where appropriate by inline citations..." Hyacinth 12:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

• Remove Everyking 13:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; footnotes have been added. This is a really trivial reason for an FARC nom compared with the shambles that other articles listed here are in, but that's a moot point now. Johnleemk | Talk 15:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, This article meets all feratured article criteria and is well written and informed. simonthebold 13:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

• I notice now: "Before listing here, leave comments detailing the article's deficiencies on it's talk page, and leave some time for them to be addressed." However, the article never should have been featured. Hyacinth 14:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I beg your pardon? Are you seriously expecting an article featured on the main page long before the creation of {{ref}} or m:Cite to have footnotes? Besides, I thought FARC waits a decent amount of time before retrospectively applying FA criteria -- {{ref}} didn't even become particularly common until late last year, and it's just been retired in favour of m:Cite. Johnleemk | Talk 14:49, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I do expect featured articles to meet the criteria for featured articles. One does not need templates to create footnotes or other inline citations. Hyacinth 16:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
      • In case you missed it, footnoting was far from a criteria in January 2005. It's ridiculous to say "the article should never have been featured" and cite a non-existent criterion at the time of the nomination. And you try creating footnotes that don't bog the article down without m:Cite or templates. Anyone who even attempted it a year ago would have been locked away in a mental asylum. Johnleemk | Talk 17:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)