Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Condoleezza Rice/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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 17:45, 27 October 2007.

[edit] Condoleezza Rice

previous FAC

This FAC was submitted unsigned by Godiego (talk · contribs), who also submitted Noam Chomsky simultaneously. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose for now - lots of stubby paras, a cite needed tag in the lead, and the lead should be a bit larger and have at least some salient personal details or career pre-washington. Once these are addressed, I'll keep looking. The prose doesn't look too bad really a first glance. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:14, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose I only skimmed the article for now, but I saw a lot of problems. Here they are...
  • Please use named refs to reduce the number of refrences that you have. 162 and 163 are the same and 50/51 are duplicated too...may be more
  • All citations, even websites, need a publisher listed
  • Don't include (English) in the citation; that is the default language on this wikipedia and should not be specified
  • Be consistent on the formatting of newspapers/magazines. You can use {{Citation}} and specify newspaper= to have the newspaper names be italicized; right now some are italicized and some are not
  • Make sure full dates are wikilinked in the references
  • References 39, 40, and 41 are not formatted properly
  • Why are some, but not all, of the newspaper articles listed separately in the References section? Their listings in the footnotes appear to have all of the information, so it doesn't need to be duplicated.
  • The primary sources section should be included in the main part of the article as Bibliography or Works so that it highlights the fact that she wrote them.
  • The Further Reading section should be pared; Ideally, many of these should be used as sources, but only a few need to be mentioned as Further Reading
  • The external links section should probably not include the last two links
  • The trivia section needs to be removed or incorporated into other parts of the article
  • When wikilinking a full date, the year should also be wikilinked, not just the month/day combination
  • Not all month/day combinations are wikilinked.
  • The citation needed tags must be addressed.
  • A great many of the paragraphs in this article begin with "On such-and-such-date..." or "In month-year..." This needs to be varied more so that it does not seem so much like a calendar.

Karanacs 15:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Oppose. Blatant POV. as Hamas captured a popular majority in Palestine yet supported Islamist terror, and influential countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt maintained non-democratic systems with U.S. support. Her policies and strong diplomatic style gained her recognition as a powerful leader by mainstream media. Any well experienced Wikipedian knows that this is introduction isn't acceptable. CG 19:29, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose The personal interests section is a trivia section under a different name. KnightLago 14:32, 25 October 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.