Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sale, Greater Manchester/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 02:08, 1 June 2007.

[edit] Sale, Greater Manchester

I think this passes the FA criteria. Epbr123 18:07, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support excellent article. Chensiyuan 09:48, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose for now.
  • Why does "a relatively low percentage of manufacturing premises" require five citations when the rest of the section doesn't have a single one?
  • I don't like how we have "Civic history" and "Political divisions" before the History section.
  • Demographics is very ugly. Prose needs to be weaved through those numbers or people are just going to skip it. And why is it in the past tense?
  • Arguably too many stub sections.
  • Could you not list a date on any of those weblinks in the references?
• I will try to look at prose later. Marskell 10:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  • • A citation has been added to the Economy section. I'm not keen on the "Civic history" and "Political divisions" sections but they are in line with WP:UKGEO guidelines. Demographics is in the past tense as it refers to the 2001 Census. Dates are unavailable for all references without them. Prose have been added to Demographics. Which sections are too stubby? Epbr123 11:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

• Comment The article uses book sources for certain citations - these cites need the specific page number of the book they're referencing. LuciferMorgan 00:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose, same problems as other noms, which I've already typed twice. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose per Sandy's criteria concerns which are at the other noms. LuciferMorgan 15:40, 28 May 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.