Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Amanda Dowler

Amanda Dowler

The Reason i am nominating this article is for the following reasons. The article was one of the most high profile child abduction murder cases in English history. the case was also one of the largest carried out by surey police force (excluding terroism).The article is allready a good article and is very stable with no edits on the page taking place since September 18th and has had no revert wars about its content. The article is also very high on refrences and these are complimented with inlince citations in apropriate places. Finally the article is concise and well written with a neutral point of view and apropriate sections.--Lucy-marie 08:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a local, I find it hard to be objective or vote, but it is a good article. Hiding Talk 08:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Despite the fact that I wrote most of it, oppose. It's too short, and there isn't enough information available to expand it as long as the murder remains unsolved. If the murderer is ever caught, then it's conceivable that the ensuing court case and the clearing up of what actually happened that day that might give enough detail, but given that it's already been 4 years I'm not holding my breath. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 11:01, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- But it is currently comprehensive. I know what you're saying, but we don't do that in other articles. For instance, and this is an awful analogy, but were an option taken out on a novel, we wouldn't oppose because the film hadn't been made yet. It's whether the article covers the facts as they are, that's how we should discuss it. Hiding Talk 12:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A diversity of sources might be helpful, as the vast majority is from the BBC. No recommendation yet, but I'm not sure if it fits the subjective "brilliant prose" standard currently. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:45, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure this article is comprehensive at the moment. There's no mention of that DNA link discovered in wearside [1], the british killer[2] or the serial rapist [3] that were suspected at one point, no details of the red car that detectives appealed for [4]. I think there's plenty of more information available to significantly expand this article both in length and depth. YDAM TALK 19:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not going to officially put oppose; however, even if this article was as comprehensive as possible I couldn't possibly offer my support simply because the article is so ludicrously short. I know that that's some pretty pitiful criteria, but I can't bring myself to say, "These eight paragraphs constitute one of the 1,000 best articles on WP." With that said, aside from the concerns raised by Ydam, the article is certainly quite, quite good. -- Kicking222 21:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: The article is too short in content, not length. The article is not about the girl, but about her murder, and it's far too light on reasons for its being a significant national or international event. There have been, no doubt, national crisis murders (Lindbergh baby, inter al.), but this is, at present, a case that has caught the horrified attention of a nation but not, at least yet, done anything more beside revolt and frighten people. If there were national legal changes, new technologies, new school requirements, etc., then there would be something more than an awful murder to report. Geogre 14:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Per Geogre. Sandy (Talk) 15:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]