Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Water clock/archive1

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) 14 December 2020 [1].

Water clock

Nominator(s): TZubiri (talk) 03:32, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about historical devices that use water or similar fluids to precisely measure the passing of time. For such a specific category of contraption, the amount of historical exemplars is astounding, complete with a huge body of archeological evidence and references, which takes as much of the credit as the article itself. I will say no more, I hope the article speaks for itself. TZubiri (talk) 03:32, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose and suggest withdrawal: After looking through the article, I saw large amounts of uncited text, and I have added the citation need tags to hopefully draw more attention to them. The article had other tags, such as a clarification needed tag in the lead image and an unreliable source tag in the article itself. I am sorry for leaving this message, but it seems like this article still needs a substantial amount of work that should take place outside of the FAC process. Aoba47 (talk) 04:08, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note -- Hi, as well as the uncited material (enough in itself to close the nomination) there's the procedural issue of the nominator having made only one minor edit to the article. Per FAC instructions, nominators should be major contributors to an article so they can deal effectively with comments and criticism. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:14, 14 December 2020 (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Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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) 06:15, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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