Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Monte Ne/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 review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 06:17, 31 January 2007.

[edit] Monte Ne

Good article about an ill fated planned resort town in Northwest Arkansas built in the early 1900s. I believe the articles continuity is pretty good. I used a book as the main source the article and cited it in the references. There are only a few websites on Monte Ne so footnotes are not very plentiful but could be improved. Otherwise, I think the article is ready for FAC. --The_stuart 16:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Needs a thorough copyedit. For Pete's sake, your third sentence is a fragment and your fourth sentence has an incorrect "it's." Andrew Levine 16:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose Very short of citations. (Citing your main source in the references is not enough; it needs to be cited in the footnotes too). In particular there are several direct quotes that really need footnoting. MLilburne 17:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• OBJECT. Not enough citation, not enough variety in sources, bad writing, bad grammar, the prose meanders and rambles. Thoroughly unready for FAC at this time. —ExplorerCDT 20:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - The article needs a thorough copy editing, as has been pointed out already. To amplify on the citation problems already mentioned, an article needs at least 1 reference per paragraph, and additional ones for assertions that could be challenged. This article has three inline citations, and entire sections are unreferenced. Additionally, your refs are not properly formatted, and the author of the referenced articles are not mentioned, nor is the retrieval date included. I found it an interesting read, but it is not FA ready at this point. Jeffpw 23:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
• Object Per all of the above. Try peer review. It's an interesting article though. Would love to see it as an FA in the future. Gzkn 10:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Object per all above. This wouldn't even make GA right now because of the few and unformatted refs. Try Peer Review first. I think FA potential is there, but not right now.Rlevse 11:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - If you used that book as a reference, you can easily use it as an inline citation. Not all footnotes need to be links to internet sources. By the way, I reformatted your footnoted and added the ISBN to the reference for you. Jeffpw 11:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: An uncut diamond of an article! It's a classic tale of human hubris and tragedy, and I agree it has all the potential of becoming an FA. I did some quick copyediting to weed out the most gregarious grammar and punctuation gaffes, but it still needs lots more of it (in addition to all that was mentioned above). It might be a worthy task for the League of Copyeditors. Good luck! --Plek 20:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the suggestion, I'd never heard of that project! --The_stuart 14:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• WITHDRAW I'm withdrawing my nomination pending further copyediting. --The_stuart 14:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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