Wikipedia:Featured article review/Shoe polish/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was delisted by Casliber via FACBot (talk) 0:52, 20 October 2021 (UTC) [1].

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Shoe polish

Notified: Fish and karate, Smokefoot, WP Fashion, noticed in January

This is a 2005 promotion last formally reviewed in 2008, and it needs a lot of work. The lead is the most insufficient I've ever seen in a FA, at only three sentences. There is a lot of uncited text in the article, and a lot of the sources used are not reliable, such as Old Leather Shoe, Shoeshine-boy.com, and Take our Word for It. This one needs a complete top-to-bottom overhaul. Hog Farm _Talk 18:48, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

• Move to FARC – having this remain as featured is embarrassing. On top of what you said, there are numerous tags, date format, and ref inconsistencies. This is definitely unacceptable. – zmbro _(talk) 19:10, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
• Move to FARC, accelerated process - as noted by Zmbro, this isn't even remotely close. Hog Farm _Talk 19:15, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
• Speedy delist. I went through and pruned a few self-published sources in addition to a generous tagging of problems. This article is in desperate need of a cobbler. Per the precedent of Wikipedia:Featured article review/ROT13/archive2, this one seems like it can be delisted immediately without a move to FARC. Pinging @Nikkimaria:, @Casliber:, and @DrKay: for their approval. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:53, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

I was musing on this - agree that the improvements needed are so great that probably a more comprehensive review than what the FAR process was designed for is needed. Closing imminently. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:50, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

• Closing note: This removal candidate has been delisted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please leave the {{featured article review}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:52, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

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