Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/My Belarusy

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[edit] My Belarusy

Invalid nomination - article is still a featured article

I nominate My Belarusy to be removed from the list of featured articles. It is poorly written, uses images that are claimed as fair use but cannot really be justified as such, and has no references, only citations that are inproperly formatted. Furthermore, the vast majority of the article is the lyrics of the song, which when removed, would make the article very small. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 19:54, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep, for the record. Can you check for us when this was promoted and link to the nomination? That and reading the policy at the top of the page should be illustrative. Specific concerns should now be addressed on the article talk page. - Taxman Talk 00:08, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: I believe this was promoted recently. It should have been brought up then. Would you also suggest what is missing, as small length articles are also allowed. User:Nichalp/sg 05:06, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep, while I am the author of most of the article, the article just got promoted on August 27th by Raul654, the head of the FAC. [1] He had the nomination stay up there very longer than usual, since it did not get comments. As for the fair use images, I only used two (the Lukashenko photos), but both came from government websites and both are the only photos I can find of the contest and first performance. The other images/audio are Public Domain either because they are government symbols (I can cite you the law) or because I made it (the Flag of Belarus). The references are located at [2], which I have 9 (a lot more than other FA's). While the article is short, I am going by only what I can find. Everything else will be OR, which is a no-no. Belarusian information on the Internet is very poor, so I am surprised I was able to come up with what I did (just like with Hero of Belarus. If you got some issues with the article, just let me know in the future please. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 05:14, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • keep. As per above. --Irpen 06:09, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: An ordinary article. Nothing in particular. All these considerations should have been discussed when they voted for its featured status, several days ago. Now it's too late to raise objections. --Ghirlandajo 14:08, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm removing this from FARC per Wikipedia guidlines involving FARCs: "Do not list articles that have recently been promoted" - Archive and No vote. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 07:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)