Wikipedia:Featured article review/Island fox/archive1

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

The article was removed by Dana boomer 20:38, 28 October 2011 [1].

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Island fox

Review commentary

Notified: Top two editors by edit count Jengod, PDH Wikiprojects: California, Dogs, Mammals

A talk page notice about improving the article was made in 2008 outlining problems that still exist.

• 1a There are several one or two sentence paragraphs and bullets that should be in prose. A copyedit never hurts either.
• 1b Length of article seems short for a topic about an entire species although length alone isn't the only indicator.
• 1c Several paragraphs are missing citations. What makes citation #15 Kelly Brock, San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike Co-ordinator, personal communication. a reliable source? Original research?
• 2a The lead section is inadequate and needs expansion.
• 2c Full information of each source is needed. Many sources need page numbers.
• 3 I fixed one issue otherwise no problems found.
• MoS Look into MOS:Images and WP:SEEALSO. Brad (talk) 09:55, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to defeature if the community sees fit. It was always sort of an odd duck (so to speak) that we got lucky with. Cheers. jengod (talk) 14:39, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

• I removed that "Kelly Brock" "citation". How the HELL did that get past the radar? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:48, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

FARC commentary

Featured article criteria mentioned in the review section include prose, references, and MOS compliance. Dana boomer (talk) 15:43, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Delist Major issues are 1c and 2a. Brad (talk) 20:08, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

• Delist, nothing's happening. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:18, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

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