Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Noemvriana/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 SandyGeorgia 02:12, 16 May 2011 [1].

Noemvriana edit

Featured article candidates/Noemvriana/archive1

Nominator(s): A.Cython (talk) 04:57, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because it highlights how a series of events (diplomatic, personal, army movements etc) at a little corner of Europe during the Great War (WWI) significantly altered the balance and led the Allies to victory. That little corner was Greece, which had a fragile balance of power between pro-Allies anti-royalist liberals and the pro-German king. The article seeks illuminate how the two sides struggled for power and their actions almost led to a civil war. Throughout the events the Great powers were constantly involved.

Note: Not sure if it is appropriate to mention here but the French version translated by this article has now a FA status. A.Cython (talk) 04:57, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for now Not ready, obvious problems with refs, so I haven't wasted time on the text yet Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brittanica is not WP:RS

Removed

web refs need a publisher

All references now have a publisher

for books give publisher location for all or none.

All references now have a location

publisher for Abbott and Paxton refs are incorrect, should be the books' publishers

Fixed

link for Paxton is a spam link going to a page with no content

Fixed

Seligman lacks a publisher

Fixed

Oppose - I appreciate the work that's been done on this article, but I don't feel it yet meets the FA criteria. Here are somespecific issues:

WP:MOS edits needed: WP:DASH/WP:HYPHEN, underlinking and overlinking, etc

I will try to reduce it. I think most of it is located at the intro...

Copy-editing needed for grammar, clarity and flow. For example, "Historian George Leon, agrees with the Venizelos' criticism"

The specific point you raised is fixed. I will go through the article and improve it as much as I can.

Foreign-language sources should be noted as such

Fixed.

I broadly agree with the sourcing issues raised above. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:43, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, agreed with the above. The article has some charm; I'd like to see what we can do with it over at the Military History A-class review. - Dank (push to talk) 14:38, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a native speaker and this is the first time I attempt to improve an article to FA status. Any criticism is welcomed.A.Cython (talk) 14:50, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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