Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Critical Mass/archive1

Critical Mass[edit]

Reason for nomination:

Critical Mass is a public event that is held internationally. Perhaps it would be beneficial to many who are not aware of the event.

Possible benfits :

- Encourage people to exercise more.
- Be a part of something.
- Social engagement.
- Promote environmentally friendly attitude. 
- Help bring a common event to all people of the world.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Eklipse2005 (talk • contribs)

Object - Needs a written expansion and more citations at the moment. Schizmatic 23:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object - Did you even read the featured article guidelines? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Please try to be civil and not bite the newcomers. —Cuivi é nen, Monday, 3 April 2006 @ 00:11 (UTC)
  - I'll be honest, I read the guidelines, and I genuinely did not beleive that this article met the criteria for selction. I thought I would be able to post the article somehwere and gain some attention as to help its refinement. If anyone has any objections, I will remove my nomination.
  - Whoops, it seems that most of my message was cut off for some reason. I apologise if that got misinterpreted to something else. Anyway, what I meant to say was that the purpose of a featured article is not to inform how the subject is "beneficial to many who are not aware of the event". The primary purpose of a FA is to mark which articles are well written, comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral, stable, properly cited, and written so that it follows our Manual of style. Currently, the Critical Mass article lacks any citiations or references. A proper lead section also needs to be developed. And it should properly address where these events commonly take place. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. This looks like a fun article and what text it does contain is nicely written. However, it lacks any references or inline citations, and the layout could use some work -- there's some bad spacing between section headers and subheaders, and I think picture placement could be tweaked a bit to give it a better flow. It also doesn't seem very comprehensive for what looks like a pretty popular event. Thanks! Air.dance 08:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]