Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Francisco de Mendoza/archive1

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) 11 June 2019 [1].

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Francisco de Mendoza

Nominator(s): Telex80 (talk) 04:25, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

This Article was well written and has all the evidence regarding the history of the Eighty Years War. Telex80 (talk) 04:25, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Comments by RetiredDuke

I don't think this article is quite ready for a FA nomination:

• For starters, it doesn't have a lead that properly summarizes the article body. For an example of how even the shortest bio can have a proper lead, see Lawrence Weathers.
• Secondly, that wall of text that is the body of the article has to be broken up in smaller sections, like Early life and The 80 Years War or some such.
• Thirdly, just by skimming the article diagonally I spotted some inappropriate passages like "the king was not amused", "decided to kill two birds with one stone", "unfortunately did not live long" (POV language).
• It also has very few inline citations, it should have more than just one at the end of each paragraph.
• Lastly, "Nominators must be sufficiently familiar with the subject matter" but you have not edited the article at all.

Premature nomination. RetiredDuke (talk) 11:31, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

I would second RetiredDuke's comments here, maybe a peer review would be a better way to go before taking a run at FA. Kosack (talk) 12:22, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Coord note

Not having edited the article is enough for archiving on procedural grounds (see instructions at the top of WP:FAC) but the other points raised above are also well-made and should be taken into account before anyone considers re-nominating here. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:39, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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) 21:40, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.