Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Butte, Montana/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 not promoted by Gimmetrow 00:28, 22 March 2009 [1].

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Butte, Montana

: seattlehawk94 (talk)

I am nominating this article because it's about a city that's had alot to do with American history. For a city of now 33,000 it's had more to do with the industrial age, western expansion, and modern history than any other city of it's size in the USA.--seattlehawk94 (talk) 12:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose Clearly not enough references. Nyttend (talk) 14:05, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Lead does not summarize the article per WP:LEAD, agree that this needs many more references, the 18 inline citations do not all have enough information per WP:CITE (at least one is just the URL), much of the article is bullet lists, clearly not anywhere near ready for FA. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 14:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose I cannot support this article in its present state. Other than agreeing with the previous two reviewers' comments, I can also see that the article does not comply with the manual of style, nor does it comply with the specifications and guidelines for city articles per WikiProject Cities. An examination of the guideline for US city articles would help editors out tremendously here. On a more positive note, I think the article has surpassed the 'start' class, and can probably be reassessed at the C-class level. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:18, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
• Tech.Review

• Dabs are not up to speed (checked with the checker tool in the toolbox)

• They need to be fixed.

Yes the disambiguation links need to be fixed.--Best, ₮RUCӨ 02:25, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

• External links are not up to speed (checked with the checker tool in the toolbox)

• They need to be fixed.

• Ref formatting is not up to speed (checked with the WP:REFTOOLS script)

• The following ref need to be properly titled not with a Bot title

• <ref>[http://www.knieveldays.com/ Evel Knievel Days :: Butte, Montana :: July 24th, 25th, 26th 2008<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

• The following ref needs to be properly formatted

• <ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-07-05-2937395846_x.htm</ref>--Best, ₮RUCӨ 22:46, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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