Talk:Canonical criticism

Canonical criticism was a Philosophy and religion good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 5, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

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This was marked as a candidate for speedy deletion as I was creating it. It seems this was because a page with this title existed previously. StAnselm (talk) 03:30, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For my reasons for the CSD see my talk page. Nezzadar (speak) 04:57, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Canonical criticism/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Ealdgyth - Talk 19:59, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be reviewing this article shortly. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:59, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

I'm failing this article under Wikipedia:QUOTEFARM. The huge number of quotations make the prose almost impossible to read, it's not a coherent narrative/acount, but instead a series of quotations that are strung together, without anything tying it all together. When you string so many quotes together, it makes the prose flow choppy and difficult to read.
Another concern is that doesn't cover all the context of the subject. According to this source, the concept is not just defined by Childs, but by Sanders also. HOwever, that's not brought out in the current article. And it appears that the two scholars use the term in different meanings, which also isn't brought out in the current article.
There also appear to be a number of sources that haven't been consulted for this - see this google scholar search.
I recognize that this article has been waiting a LONG time for a review, but quite frankly, it's incoherent and doesn't explicate what the subject is to this non-biblical scholar. Perhaps a biblical scholar would be able to fill in the gaps of knowledge, but we're not writing just for specialists, we need to write for non-specialists also, which this article fails to do. Ealdgyth - Talk 20:16, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]