Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/ASCII art/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 05:46, 9 March 2007.

[edit] ASCII art

Second time round, this article has had major cleanup and sortout since last nomination. Still a few tiny areas for improvement, but most featured articles are like that. Davidpk212 22:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• Object Insufficient citations. Existing citations need formatting. By the way, when an article still has {{fact}} in it, it isn't ready for FAC. Jay32183 22:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
• Object. Somehow this article seems to have gotten worse since the last time I checked it out. Hardly anything is referenced, and at the same time, the article somehow manages to still not be comprehensive. The "Pre-ASCII-like art" needs trimmed of the ancient stuff. I'd first start out with re-sectioning everything. First section should be history. This should include the relevant stuff from "Pre-ASCII-like art" and "History of ASCII art" with appropriate subsections. "Uses for ASCII art" should be nuked and spread out among the other sections, or expanded. "Types and styles of ASCII art" should contain the bulk of the content — emoticons, Amiga style, Block ASCII, animated, non-fixed width. Last major section should be "Creating ASCII art" or something like that. As for ANSI/Shift_JIS — these articles are fairly small. Maybe merge them all into the main ASCII article? Also, all the images need major work. Some of them don't even have license tags on them. Many high quality images could be made for this article (rather than merely repositioning the current ones, which seems to have been done many times). Overall, there are tons of things that could be done to make this article better. --- RockMFR 01:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
• Object, per Jay32183--very few statements have references cited --Miskwito 23:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
• Object I hate to pile on concerns but the writing is simply not good enough. Lots of one or two sentence sections, weird sentences appearing out of nowhere like "An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text usually placed underneath." I don't think this article is ready. Pascal.Tesson 07:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
• Object per Jay's reasoning. LuciferMorgan 03:06, 8 March 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.