Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Euro

Euro[edit]

Article is no longer a featured article.

Not a single reference, and it's still called a featured article? In addition, the content is also wordy and not quite meeting featured article standard. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 04:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Remove: no references, many short sections (some only a single sentence or a main article link), bloated see-also (using templates, no less), possible NPOV problems with unsourced statements (e.g. "The Euro is the most significant monetary reform in Europe since the Roman Empire"). —Kirill Lok s hin 04:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Remove, for now, I'm afraid. —Nightst a llion (?) 09:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep"The Euro is the most significant monetary reform in Europe since the Roman Empire" even as a kid i read that and you dont need references to that. Very good article. --Pedro 15:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Remove Intro not long enough to make article look good on standard size screens with infobox on right, TOC and currency picture creating witespace. Echo above concerns, also. Hipocrite - «Talk» 15:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep seems perfectly valid, and it's a well-written article. Ardenn 15:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Remove clearly. WIAFA 2c requires refs; this article has no refs, therefore it fails WIAFA. Also, the lead is horrible & the trivia section is, erm, trivial (and should go). Mikkerpikker ... 17:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Remove. (1) References needed. (2) No mentioning of Optimal Currency Area criteria and fulfillment, while the euro is the most analyzed currency in these economic theories. (3) Unexplained sentences and sections, like "Economists that helped create the euro". In what way? Why are these economists important, and others are not? Etc. (4) Why is the Roman Empire (RE) the most important economic reform? What criteria? Note that only about 1/2 of RE was in Europe, when in Roman history was this "reform", can it really be called a "reform"? What about the Latin Monetary Union? (That union seems to have more European citizens/more European territory than RE). Sijo Ripa 22:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update. (2), (3) and (4) are fixed. Only OCA has references though, so (1) remains. (5) Some sections need also clarification, like "competitive funding". (6) Page is 50+ kb. Should be 32kb at most. (7) Introduction needs rewrite. Sijo Ripa 23:49, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Remove For lack of references alone. I'm not as concerned with inline citations, but the references should at least account for most of the content, and the two books that are currently listed absolutely don't seem to cover even a significant portion of the article. So, basically, it is unreferenced. If that's fixed, I'll read the article and adjust my vote. --Tsavage 04:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note there are references, but they're given as inline external links. Not ideal, but fixable. Mark ^{your words} 16:28, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]