Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/James Frey/archive1

James Frey

An extensive, documented article covering James Frey and the "Million Little Pieces" episode. Justforasecond 04:17, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object. The embedded HTML links need to be converted into full citations as per WP:CITE. In addition, as the article is currently tagged with a current event tag and describes multiple events that have occured during the last week the article does not currently appear to be stable (criteria 2e). --Allen3 ^talk 04:42, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Justforasecond 20:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object sorry to say this but it is nowhere near ready- consider Peer Review first. No references, inline citations, weak lead. Years alone should not be linked- see Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context. The first sentence itself demonstrates incorrect comma use. The Biography is weak, and the external links hamper the readibility of the article. A thorough copyedit should also occur. AndyZ 20:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. The article is not comprehensive. It needs better sectioning, and the sections which currently exist need to be made longer, and needs to have references and footnotes. Lists need to be converted into prose, and I'm concerned that such a current topic, over which fallout is still occurring, may make it too unstable to be featured at the moment. As would be expected with very current, heavily edited articles, a copyedit and a grammar check would both probably be good ideas. RyanGerbil10 23:15, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object: Not stable. The fellow is in the news, and he is staying in the news. It's hard to write a biography (rather than a news background) when a person's life has gotten only to the "published first book" stage and when that life is, itself, a subject of ongoing inquiry. There is no way to see this fellow in context, as there is no context yet, and there is no way to be stable in our article, as he continues to get retracted, blamed, praised, defended, etc. Geogre 19:06, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]