Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cantabria/archive1

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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 18:01, 19 June 2007.

[edit] Cantabria

Cantabria is a Spanish and Esperanto language featured article translated to English by the collaborative proyect "Spanish Translation of the Week". Uhanu 15:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Recommend a Peer review to help prepare for FAC, including work on WP:LEAD, cleaning up listiness, referencing, formatting sources, and other MOS issues (such as the rambling TOC, 500px images and what looks like an oversized infobox). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
• OpposePremature nomination. Lead is too short. Too many red links. Some sections are just lists. Hardly any references. Needs a peer review. Probably needs a copy-edit as well to top it off. — Wackymacs 15:34, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Red links are not an relevant objection. Raul654 19:28, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
    • If you take a look at the article, you'll notice they almost outnumber the blue links. — Wackymacs 20:00, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
      • I noticed. Be that as it may, the fact that this article links to non-existant articles has nothing to do with the quality of this article. Raul654 20:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
        • It may, however, indicate that the article is overlinked. For example, it's very likely that not all of the people listed having researched the origins of Cantabria warrant their own articles. ShadowHalo 01:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• My primary concerns:
  1. Those long, wide images should probably be placed in their own line instead of forcing text to the right; it would make the section look a lot tidier.
  2. The lead is much too short for an article of this length.
  3. Several sections are much too listy and either need to be eliminated or converted to prose.
  4. Though it's probably difficult, a few more English references would be helpful. -- Phoenix2 ^(holla) 04:53, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

• All right, I´ll have in mind your suggestions, specially about the lead, lists and images, in fact I´ll add to Peer review. Concerning red links, some members of Wikiproyecto Cantabria we are working in them, but as Raul654 says, it is not a criterion of quality of the article. This shortage of links ins explained because this article was the first of a series of Cantabrian subjects. Thank you very much.Uhanu 09:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• New longer lead added.Uhanu 04:43, 16 June 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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.