Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2007 French Grand Prix/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 16:20, 3 August 2007.

2007 French Grand Prix[edit]

Self-nomination. Suitable references and pictures, as well as quotations. If there are any changes I need to make just leave a note of how it could be improved. Thank you. Davnel03 14:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comment~~ Weak Oppose. From a glance I can see that the lead seems a bit short and there's a bit of a trivia section (without any references to boot). And while I can't claim to be experienced with this sort of article, the dominance of AutoSport.com among the references seems a touch...odd if not worrying. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 01:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Does that really matter that most of the sources are from AutoSport? It doesn't affect the quality of the article does it? Davnel03 13:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Done trivia section. Davnel03 13:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the Classification section contains no references and I can see a trivia section. Dalejenkins | The Apprentice (UK)'s FA plea-please have your say! 11:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Done - removed trivia section - as for the Classification part, the reference is located in the External links part under Detailed French GP results. It is located like that for most of the F1 races. Davnel03 13:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - lead is inadequate. Similar to my comments in the Malaysian GP article, this needs a summary of the aftermath section in more detail. Namely Alonso's struggles and Raikkonen regaining the Ferrari initiative. It also has pov like "sad news", use of contractions and also things like "weird accident" - running away with the fuel hose connected is not that uncommon. Also, the actual race description should be more detailed, especially the battle between Alonso and Heidfeld, especially the attempted pass and the eventual pass where he did a very risky move around the outside of a fast chicane type corner (Chateau d'Eau I think its name is). Also, the Hamilton extra stop gamble needs to be discussed. The image fails FUC 8 IMHO. It does not significantly add to the coverage. If it was a controversial and big crash, then it would show us something that the words cannot. We only have a string of cars in a procession, and you can convery the same info simply by reading out the running order. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose As per Blnguyen's comments, primarily because there was nothing pre-race to warrant it being larger than the race section. If race section is expanded appropriately I would Support. BeL1EveR 12:06, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.