Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Antisemitism/archive1

Anti-Semitism

Well written, comprehensive, full of inline citations, and stable. Deserves to be a featured article. Masterhomer 04:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object. 1a, 1d, 2b, 2c, 4. Sandy 00:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC) Refer to peer review. Lots to do here to get this article ready for FAC. Summary style and a tighter focus is needed: the Table of Contents is overwhelming, and See also is out of control (can't any of that be incorporated into text?). The section headings need attention per WP:MOS, Further reading is actually External links and appears to be a link farm, mixed referencing styles are used, the article uses weasle words ("some argue", "some say", "some see"), there are short stubby sections (e.g.; The demonizing of the Jews, Host desecration), and there are entire sections that are unreferenced. This referencing doesn't work: "According to the 2005 U.S. State Department Report on Global Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism in Europe has increased significantly in recent years (but see fn.31 below)." There is no reference to the State Dept Report, and footnote # 31 is not static - it will change with time.) Sandy 04:35, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article has already spewed into dozens of other articles. I don't think it is a topic that is easy to shorten. As for standard references and headings, I'm working on that and it should be done soon enough. Masterhomer

05:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object in current form.I think this article can be improved, but the improvement can be done in the time frame of this current nomination and should be kept here for the time being.Maxflight 16:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object - simply too large. almost every paragraph has grammatical or other problems. Random sample: "The Swiss banned kosher slaughter in 1902 and saw an anti-Semitic backlash against a proposal to refused to lift it a century later." both grammatically incorrect and pov.--ppm 21:50, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose in current form - way too many problems with the writing and organization. The article feels more like a list than anything else and is lacking a focus, especially beyond the historical introduction. Many short paragraphs look like incomplete compromises of revert wars. There are pretty bad redundancies (e.g. the bit about the use of nazi-symbolism in anti-zionist propaganda). An effort should be made to rethink an article which is not simply a list of summaries of other articles but rather an article which presents some meta-information and completely relies on the country-specific articles for instance. Furthermore, POV is still a big concern. I'll cite a few examples that seemed more flagrant:

1. Bans on kosher slaughter are given undue weight.
2. many anti-Semites are pro-Arab. I see no use for that sentence except innuendo.
3. Little or nothing is said about criticism or controversy on the actual extent of new anti-semitism.
4. Anecdotes like Hitler's Cross are presented as significant (whereas, no matter how dumbfouding that incident may be, it's more telling of ignorance than anti-semitism). Mel Gibson's DUI incident also does not belong here. It's an anecdote which has zero importance in an article that's supposed to have depth. (although I guess this is not a POV issue per se)
5. Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism section is a bit "weaseley" opposing a "large variety of commentators" to "critics".

The article is valuable as is but I think it's way short of FA criteria. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pascal.Tesson (talk • contribs)

object This article is too long. Except for a few sentences, all of the material of the section 'Anti-Semitism and the Christian World' needs to either be moved to an article of its own or moved into the articles that are referenced in this article. The material need not be repeated twice--in the referenced article and here. Thanks Hmains 04:21, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]