Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Noam Chomsky

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[edit] Noam Chomsky

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Fails criteria 2(b) and 2(d): not comprehensive or NPOV, because all criticism has been removed. Fails criterion 5: inappropriate length, 86 kb mostly describing Chomsky's views. Hoziron 01:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment.Remove Referencing is pretty haphazard. Article clearly needs some trimming into Wikipedia:Summary style. I'm really bugged by "Political contemporaries" as a list... who is making these comparisons? The "Criticisms" section needs a much better summary of the child article, and the structure probably should not be arranged that way. That said, all of the above seems like it could be accomplished with some WP:BOLD editing. Jkelly 01:13, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Remove, for a variety of reasons. Here is the version that was promoted; the article has now nearly tripled in size, mostly by including Chomsky quotes on every subject imaginable. The article terribly overuses quotes in general; a large portion of it is not original prose. All criticism of Chomsky's views has been removed to a separate article, leaving a one-line section in this one. There is no explicit references section; and the bottom is a linkfarm. —Kirill Lokshin 01:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Remove as per above. Also, it fails 2a & all those quotes make the article nearly unreadable... Mikkerpikker 11:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Remove. More a bulletin board than an article. Mark1 00:29, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Remove. --Alabamaboy 16:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Remove - per nom. FCYTravis 22:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Remove. Poorly organised and difficult for a new reader unfamiliar with the subject. David | Talk 22:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)