Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Joseph Merrick/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 Graham Beards via FACBot (talk) 22:21, 14 February 2015 (UTC) [1].

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Joseph Merrick

Nominator(s): Mr. Guye (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

This article is about a deformed Englishman who lived in Victorian times. I note that the good article assessment was all the way back in 2010, so this article is mature enough. Mr. Guye (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Oppose and recommend withdrawal -- A worthy article but too many statements/paragraphs are uncited; these need to be dealt with before FAC. Also I see several quotes that really should be attributed inline. Prose-wise I think it would benefit from a good copyeditor's hand. On a more minor (structural) point, the lead section shouldn't need to be six paragraphs. Lastly, on a procedural note, it looks like the nominator has only made one edit to the article -- per FAC instructions, while you don't have to be prime editor of the article to nominate here, you do in future need to let the main editors know when the nomination is made. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Note that this nom was not transcluded to the FAC page until today. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:14, 14 February 2015 (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• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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. Graham Beards (talk) 22:21, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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