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World War I[edit]

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I am resubmitting this article for WP:FARC. The comments below were left over 3 weeks ago, and little attempt has been made to resolve them:

NOTE: This article has 65KB of prose as of 15 June 2006. See Wikipedia:Summary style

Andy t 21:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Remove; uses inconsistant referencing. Entire sections go un-referenced. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 22:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment re: 2(c) - per previous agreement on this page, articles which were promoted to FA status prior to the requirement of inline citations can't be demoted because they don't have adequate references, as long as they do have references of some sort, and it appears that this article has extensive references. I'll have a look at the rest of the objections, though. The Disco King 22:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment re: 3(a) - The only guideline related to length is that it be less than 4 paragraphs. The 3-4 paragraph length is only a proposed guideline and is phrased as a suggestion so shouldn't be held against the article. However, the lead does need improvement which may add paragraphs. (Like what started the war, who won, casualties, medical/technological advances, etc) --Bobblehead 22:48, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep This nomination is very misguided. Apart from the lead, which can be easily fixed anyway, there is almost nothing for which to indict this article.UberCryxic 02:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Keep. As far as I know, we haven't yet moved to the stage of defeaturing articles for a deficiency in footnotes (many FAs don't have any). The lead can be easily expanded, and while 87K is rather long, WWI is one of the most important events in human history; if anything deserves a longer article, it does. Everything else is an obscure (and controversial, in some cases!) point of style or formatting; these are at best minor quibbles, not reasons to defeature an article! Kirill Lokshin 23:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think I've dealt with a few of your concerns - see this diff. I've addressed your concerns with WP:MOSDATE, WP:MOSNUM (although there were only a few measurements), and tried to trim the ToC by transwikiing the quotes section to Wikiquotes, making all the subheadings in the "References" section bold text, and moving "Other Names" to the lead (although that was reverted; I'm gonna hammer it out on the talk page). Copyrights and fair use policy are a little confusing to me still, but I'll give that a look as well. Furthermore, I'll try to peck away at the copyediting and spinning off to daughter articles. (BTW: I'm a strong Keep as I don't think any of these problems merit demotion; they are problems, however, and they do need to be addressed.) Cheers! The Disco King 15:58, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Also - the last image on your list is gone from the article - it left with the "Quotes" section. Cheers! The Disco King 16:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, vast majority of the concerns listed above are minor copyediting issues. The inline citations could be improved but at the moment the lack of specific citations is not a reason to remove. Christopher Parham (talk) 03:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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