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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was removed 19:35, 13 October 2007.

Schabir Shaik trial[edit]

Review commentary[edit]

Notifications, project: WikiProject Africa, WikiProject Criminal Biography, WikiProject Criminal justice, WikiProject Law, and WikiProject South Africa
Notifications, user: User:PZFUN (creator, major contributor, and FAC nominator)

This article, promoted to featured status in December 2005, falls short of the current FA criteria in several respects:

  • 1(a): Concerns about prose raised in the FAC went unadressed.
  • 1(c): The article has 32 citations. However, well over half of the article lacks inline citations, including the "Trial" and "Squires' judgement" sections in their entirety. The "Fallout" and "Appeal" section carry a total of three sources, but are still mostly unsourced. The article contains numerous unattributed quotes.
  • 2(d): Almost all inline citations are incomplete and provide only title and URL information. At minimum, they should note the date that the source was last accessed. Moreover, all sources are formatted using the rather awkard {{ref label}}, which adds an 'a' link before all references, even if they are used only once.
  • 3: One of the non-free images used in the article (Image:Schabir Shaik after sentencing.jpg) does not have a non-free use rationale.

There may be issues that I've overlooked, but it would take substantial effort to fix even only the ones listed above. — Black Falcon (Talk) 05:32, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FARC commentary[edit]

Suggested FA criteria concerns are prose (1a), citations (1c) and their format (2c), and images (3). Marskell 16:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove, not a single edit since nomination six weeks ago. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:48, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]


  • Remove. 1a. The lead is a good example of the whole text, in this respect.
    • "Shaik's petition of appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal has failed; Shaik started to serve his sentence of 15 years on 9 November 2006"—recent-past tense "has failed"? Spot the redudant two words.
    • "He was pronounced guilty of corruption for paying Zuma 1.2 million Rand (US$185,000) to further their relationship and for soliciting a bribe from the French arms company Thomson-CSF, as well as guilty of fraud for writing off more than R1 million (US$ 154,000) of Zuma's unpaid debts." Something is needed before the second "guilty". And in the currency formatting, first there's no space, then there's a space.
    • Choppy paragraphing: take the last para of the lead. Should be merged with the second-last. Tony (talk) 05:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Closing: Not a lot of comment here, but no work at all (for 2007, in fact). Marskell 19:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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