Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Invader Zim/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 04:25, 3 February 2008.

[edit] Invader Zim

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I'm nominating this article for featured article because I believe it is a high quality article summarizing thoroughly the events and mature of this show and follows FA guidelines. For anyone who protests or wishes to revise this article prior to candidacy, please do so. :)Leslie Granger (talk) 01:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

• Comment: I think a lot of work needs to be done to this article before it can be a FA. For a start there's a lot of citations that aren't properly formatted. Some of the non-free images don't have fair use rationales. The characters section probably goes into too much detail when there's sub articles already made. In the Format section, only one item is sourced. The article needs a copy edit for grammar and formatting issues. ●BillPP ^{(talk|contribs)} 02:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose I'm afraid. As per BillPP, you need to use correctly formatted citations (e.g. using the {{cite web}} template, you need to be consistent and accurate on their placement (see WP:CITE) and you need to check there is a valid and correctly formed fair use rationale for images used in the article. The Setting section and Supporting characters section have one citation between them. Trim the external links as well, per WP:EL. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
• Comment it says "GA-class" on the talk page but... based on what, since it's not in the good articles? igordebraga ≠ 16:49, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I've rerated the article as no formal process (I'm aware of) declared the article as a good article. I do not think it is one anyway. ●BillPP ^{(talk|contribs)} 03:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose per all of the above. —Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 03:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose I think all the components needed are there, but it's currently a mismash of stuff. Here's what needs to happen:

The lead section needs to be expanded to another paragraph (see WP:LEAD)

The Characters section needs to have all the FUR images removed or reduced in number

The Awards and nominations section needs to be turned into paragraph form.

Finally, general layout (sloppy images, bad reading of prose) needs to be improved and references need to be expanded and added, and used consistently. (see the Rambling Man's comments above) David Fuchs ^(talk) 23:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Erm, just how would the awards section be paragraphized if Avatar is a featured article with table-form awards list?

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