Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2001: A Space Odyssey/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) 10 November 2024 [1].

2001: A Space Odyssey

Nominator(s): Ægc's friendly xbox alt (talk) 05:34, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the eponymous 1968 science fiction film, now widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. The actual article is very high quality (namely being both GA-Class and a vital article). Ægc's friendly xbox alt (talk) 05:34, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose and suggest withdrawal The nominator (including alts) has a minuscule contribution to the article, and has not posted on the talk page about nominating or talked to any of the editors who have more authorship. You appear to be a new editor, so no hard feelings - but bringing an article to FAC is usually done when you are one of the primary contributors to an article.

This article certainly is close to the FA standard - hence why there have been some similar drive-by FA nominations in the past - but the prose still isn't quite there. It's also unclear why the articles in "Further Reading" haven't been integrated. This would require a fair bit of work by a dedicated editor or group of editors before it comes back to FAC. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 06:00, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I smell passive aggression. Not that you scare me anyway. Ægc's friendly xbox alt (talk) 09:33, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per the above. The prose isn't of high enough standard to bring to FAC. (And being a vital article is no indication of it being "very high quality") - SchroCat (talk) 06:30, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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) 06:54, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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