Wikipedia:Featured article review/Emu/archive1

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The article was removed by Dana boomer 19:34, 4 April 2011 [1].

Emu[edit]

Review commentary[edit]

Featured article review/Emu/archive1

Notified: WP:BIRDS, User talk:GamerPro64

I posted multiple concerns on the talk page over a month ago, and only two were addressed. The rest, listed below, have not:

One [verification needed] dating from 12/07 under "Diet".
[Citation needed] under Cultural Referenes.
This has now been referenced. MeegsC | Talk 14:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Citation errors:
- Synthesis in using search results to verify that certain places are named "Emu something or other". Is that statement even needed, much less with this shaky "source"?
  - Is it the fact that the citation is a search result that you're objecting to? Because the Australian government would seem to me to be a pretty reliable source for the place names. MeegsC | Talk 14:54, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - My concern is that it's entirely possible that some of those places weren't named for the emu — the source doesn't say that they were named for the bird. They could've been named from a bastardization of some other word, for instance. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 20:49, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - Okaaaaayyyy... Rather unlikely, but I see your point. Not sure how/where we'll find a single source for all 600 places, but perhaps it's out there. MeegsC | Talk 23:18, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Major 1a (prose) issues. Every sentence under "Classification" begins with "the", as do several adjacent sentences under "Description". Several sentences under "Diet" begin with "Emus".
Last paragraph of "Economic value" is unsourced, as are large portions of "Cultural reference".

So we have failure in 1c mostly, with some 1a.

Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 22:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FARC commentary[edit]

Featured article criteria mentioned in the review section include referencing and prose. Dana boomer (talk) 20:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delist, minimal improvement since FAR started. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 22:28, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delist - Yeah, like TPH, there's not a lot of improvement on the article that would let it still be a Featured Article. GamerPro64 (talk) 01:20, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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