Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Maglev train

Maglev train

I spent a little time on this article but many people worked on it. It seems me well done altough I'm not sure about References and size. It's quite detailed and with many free photos. Armando82 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment: The article needs a few things to be a Featured Article.
- The lead section is too long. Try whittling it down to three paragraphs.
- The photos would look better if spaced out more evenly throughout the article.
- The proposal section has too many subsections. Maybe you could beef up two or three subsections to use as examples, and create a daughter article to hold the full list.
- The external links section is exceedingly long. Either delete a few, or try shrinking the font size down. The Hugo Chavez page has a small text, two-column link section that you could use as a template.
- I'm sure other people will point this out, but you could use some footnotes and a few more references.
- Hope this helps.

— Lovelac7 01:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object. Lead section should be shorter. The fourth paragraph, in particular, seems to be a rather out of place digression. Ditto pretty much everything else Lovelac7 said. Two sources aren't enough, IMO, and footnoting — especially the native MediaWiki supported one (see ketuanan Melayu or Windows 2000 for an example of its use) — should be a must. The proposals section should only contain a summary of the minor ones and a couple of subsections about the most well-known projects. Also, why not use — (—) instead of - or --? Johnleemk | Talk 17:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object is not well referenced enough. Whilst inline citations are not necessary, they do make things easier. One way or another, though, this article needs to be accountable to the outside world. Batmanand 22:49, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object - not top quality standards Palmerston 21:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]