Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of the Bastards/archive2

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

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 22:00, 21 October 2016 [1].

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Battle of the Bastards

Nominator(s): AffeL (talk) 20:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

This article is about the highly rated episode nine of Season six of Game of Thrones. I believe this article should be featured because. Not only have I worked hard to first turn it to Good Article, thanks to help by other Users. After that I nominated it for a Peer Review and also the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors(where an admin user helped a lot). Now it's time to get the greatest episode of television history to Feature status. AffeL (talk) 20:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Comment: Glancing through the article, if we exclude the lead and plot sections, around two-thirds of the remaining text is given in verbatim quotes. That's far, far too high a proportion – we are supposed to write our articles rather than assemble the words of others; you should familiarise yourself with WP:QUOTEFARM. Many of the quotes are in informal, conversational English, which is contrary to the concept of encyclopedic neutrality. And the humungous quote box in the Reception section is a simple paean of praise that ought to be condensed to a few words. Quite a lot of rewriting is necessary, I think. Brianboulton (talk) 22:54, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

@Brianboulton: Hello.. could you close/archive the nomination. I do not wish to move forward with this. - AffeL (talk) 20:56, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I don't have the power, but I'm sure the @FAC coordinators: will see this and act accordingly. Brianboulton (talk) 21:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Ask and ye shall receive... Tks Affel/Brian. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:00, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been withdrawn, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 22:00, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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