Wikipedia:Featured article review/World War I/archive3

World War I

Article is still a featured article

I am renominating this page for FARC for two major reasons:

This was never put through the FAC process. I went searching for the original FAC page and found this link, placed on 14:46, 15 February 2004, which shows that the page was simply tagged with an FA templete without going through the FAC process in 2004.
The article has no inline citations.

I feel that these two issues put togather are enough to make this a canidate for FARC. This was previously nominated, the results can be found here. TomStar81 04:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: This is my first ever FARC, and I am sure that i screwed at least two things up, so if someone more familar with this process than I am please check to make sure I did not make that big of mess? I would really apreciate it ;) TomStar81 04:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep (presuming the unusual tagging is a relic of the "Brilliant prose" conversion rather than a fraudulent FA). The lack of citations is regrettable, but there are numerous references listed; there's no reason to retroactively apply current citation standards to old FAs at this time, as we'd have to remove most of them. —Kirill Lokshin 04:59, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- If this is a "Brilliant Prose" hold over then we need to nail down exactly when the change from "Brillant Prose" to "Featured Article" was made and place that date on this page. In this manner we can determine with absolutle certentity whether we are dealing with a "Brillent Prose" hold over or a "Featured Article" fraud. TomStar81 10:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - The "Refreshing Brilliant Prose" vote was held in December of 2003 (after which something like 80-90% were removed) and the official switchover was made in January 2004. Raul654 03:13, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Given that the featured article message was added by Lord Emsworth, I think we can safely say this isn't a fraud :-) —Kirill Lok s hin 04:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - there is a third, even older, FARC here. -- ALoan (Talk) 08:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment see Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion. Anville 07:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I didn't comb through the entire article, but I read the lead and Introduction section, and they do seem to effectivley summarize the much longer text that follows, which is critical for such a broad topic. I also skimmed and selectively read parts of the rest, and the writing appears to be clean and clear and not obviously skewed to a particular bias. Checks for basic info, like casualties, economics, technology and methods, were positive. (The absence of inline citations is IMO, a very good and lucky thing, reading an article of this length with inlines would likely be near intolerable.) Also, the edit history shows high and steady activity over time, so with the article in this orderly state after all that, I am much more confident in it now than at the time it was promoted. There is a bit of an inconsistency here: since the article has changed significantly since the nomination, one could argue that it requires a new FAC, as it is a different article. So, my vote is essentially a speedy FAC pass, something I might not agree with in other FARC cases, or on FAC. But, such is the wiggly world of WP process, and mine is only one opinion. Based on my review as described, I don't think FA will be badly served by keeping this one. --Tsavage 17:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Too late I know, but if anyone wants to renominate this I would agree with a removal. I won't do so just yet as it is too soon since this last one. violet/riga (t) 09:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]