Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Festivus/archive4

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) 22:41, 23 December 2018 [1].

Festivus

Nominator(s): Pastorma (talk) 22:37, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about a holiday that is celebrated on December 23rd. The Festivus article has been nominated 3 times in the past 14 years and I believe that the past 2 years of revisions to the article have significantly improved it enough to a point that it could be showcased for other readers to see. I hope that you accept this nomination quickly and we can get this out to everyone on Festivus! Happy Festivus Pastorma (talk) 22:37, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose There are some unreferenced areas and the prose is too clumsy in places. This is also a procedural oppose. Pastorma, you should read the FAC instructions: "Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article before nominating it". You have only edited this once, and I don't see any evidence that you have contacted any of the regular editors. - SchroCat (talk) 23:00, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. This feels a good way short of FA status. The reference formatting is all over the place, and while some of the references are good (decent newspapers, scholarly publications), some of them really aren't. A quick glance at Google Scholar suggests that there are other research articles that could be incorporated. If you are keen to improve this article, it may be worth taking it through GAC first. Josh Milburn (talk) 08:34, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note -- Per SchroCat, this could be simply removed on procedural grounds owing to lack of nominator involvement; because we have some comments that could aid improvement of the article, I'll archive it the normal fashion. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:40, 23 December 2018 (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Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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) 22:41, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.