Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kalarippayattu/archive1

Kalarippayattu

I found this article quite suitable for "Wikipedia:Featured article candidates", satisfying all the criteria for being a selected article.

• Strong support-- Kjrajesh --Rajesh Kakkanatt 08:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you please check the copyright tags for Image:Sabdha chakras.jpg and Image:Maithari.jpg. Thanks.

• Object. It falls short of many FA criteria. To start with, it has a very short lead. A good lead should summarize the whole article. Some of the sections are stubby (like etymology). The "Components" section could do with more prose (as against list) to bring out the essense of the lists. I am also greatly concerned that this article uses only one set of works (by Zarrilli) as a reference. There should be more independent sources for verifying the information in the article. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 14:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I think this is far too premature too, but on the source issue - the reason the article uses only one major sources is because that is the sum of literature on the subject - it cannot be helped, so when this article does finally meet criteria, it shouldnt be judged on that. Vastu 05:43, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
• Object. Agree with above objection. Also, can you be a supporter of the article if you helped write the article? It would seem that strong support was from one of the wikipedia contributors to the article. Seems like a bias toward supporting it, It would seem that various facts in the article including the different styles of kalaripayattu were in dispute in the past. Various sentences in the article will need grammatical cleanup. Kanga1 02:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
• Object. Lead is too short, several sections are too short, most of the References are duplicates, this should be fixed. — Wackymacs 17:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
• Object. Per above.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)