Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/FC Steaua Bucureşti/archive3

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 not promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 02:11, 14 August 2008 [1].

FC Steaua Bucureşti

Nominator(s): Gabinho (talk)

previous FAC (14:32, January 26, 2008)

older FAC (02:59, 11 September 2007)

older FAC (01:11, 7 July 2007)

Gabinho (talk) 18:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose "compulsory military stage" (presumably a calque from stagiu militar obligatoriu) shows that the English needs checking, this should be something like "compulsory military service". There are also a number of dead links. - Francis Tyers · 19:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Many of the same issues still exist from the previous FAC in January - not sure why September's is linked above - and there are plenty of dead links too now. Peanut4 (talk) 19:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There's a part of the history of Steaua that is not properly researched for this article: the early history 1950s and 1960s. Evenimentul Zilei published a very well researched series of articles which documents the early history of Steaua. I think that for making the article more NPOV, they could be used as references. Currently, most of the references of that era are from their official site, which makes it a bit unbalanced/POV. I put the list of articles (in Romanian) here: Talk:FC Steaua Bucureşti#The series of articles on Steaua published by Evenimentul Zilei. bogdan (talk) 19:36, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose - I wasn't here for the previous FACs, but a quick glance shows that this isn't close to featured quality.

All Romanian-language references need a disclaimer indicating this.
Citation needed tag in ownership. This is a no-no for any featured article candidate.
A lot of dead links, as said by multiple reviewers above.
Lead is inadequate per WP:LEAD. Needs major expansion.
This is from the lead: "They became the first east European team to win the European Cup being victorious in 1986 European Cup final." This is not prose that meets Criterion 1a.
Why is there this much bolding in History?
From Statistics and records: "Steaua currently boasts itself with the most impressive pedigree in Romania."?

I noticed this failed a good article review last month. I recommend withdrawing this and working toward making this a GA. If the article can't pass a good article review, it has no chance here, and frankly it needs more work before it meets GA standards. Giants2008 (17-14) 20:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per past FAC/GAC comments that I made.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
comment Image:SteauaCrests.jpg seems excessive and decorative, failing WP:NFCC#8 Fasach Nua (talk) 08:30, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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