Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Gene
Gene[edit]
- Article is no longer a featured article.
Lacks inline citations and the only reference is Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene" (which is non-technical), the lead does not conform to WP:LEAD, neither "History" nor "Evolutionary concept of gene" are comprehensive. "Expression of molecular genes" is a list. Mikker ... 21:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
- Remove, the lead is bad, there are no citations for details that are original and relatively recent research. The text is jumbled and not comprehensive, there is dupliation of ideas, a confusion between which material is relevant to be discussed in terms of a "gene" rather that a genome, too much text is spent defining marginally relevant terms, and basic information is never given (one example is that ther article never mentions the diference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes); the discussion on what genes actually do is poorly constructed and not comprehensive (I'm not even sure what the section Types of genes is trying to convey), the same can be said of the discussion of gene evolution, there is no significant discussion of gene regulation. The article does a very poor job of the reader why genes are intersting and relevant. Specifically fails 2 (a), (b) and (c), 3 (a) and possibly 3 (b).--nixie 01:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- Remove. The lead is too long, there are no inline citations, one reference, which is way too little for such an important topic. I have a feeling also that the history section is far from complete; see Genetics#Timeline_of_notable_discoveries. AndyZ 23:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- It is not an article about genetics, rather it is an article about the concept of a gene (genetics is far more complex than just genes), I think the history section is possibly on the better sections in this article.--nixie 01:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)