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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 17:19, 7 March 2008.

Philippine Idol

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Self-nominator I'm nominating this article for featured article because it is recently promoted to WP:GA, and this would serve as an inspiration for other Philippine entertainment editors of Wikipedia. Starczamora (talk) 14:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. I just did some preliminary work copy editing the article, and I don't think it's very close to FA status. Here are a few of the issues I noticed:
  • There are a number of basic grammar and style issues throughout. I have corrected some, but there are plenty left.
    • Still some issues, but I'll try to take care of them. --Kakofonous (talk) 17:04, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • I think these problems are mostly taken care of, but I'd like someone else to take a look. --Kakofonous (talk) 02:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The "Notable events" section reads like a trivia collection. Necessary information should be combined into prose paragraphs, rather than remaining in that list. Extraneous information should be removed.
  • Image:PIFinal12.jpg is too large for fair use. It should be uploaded again in a smaller size.
  • Image:Pinoy idol title card.jpg has no fair use rationale or description.
  • In many places, there are extremely small sections and paragraphs, which probably should be merged in some cases. I noticed this quite a bit in the "Controversies" section.
  • I ran the article through peer review and the BOT program recommended to remove excessive use of articles like a, an, and the. Apparently, it does look like unstructured.
  • I've edited the 'Notable events' section by removing no-longer-necessary paragraphs and copyediting the remaining ones.
  • I've replaced the Pinoy Idol logo with the one with FUR provided.
  • I've reuploaded the Philippine Idol finalists image in a smaller size.
  • I've merged small paragraphs in the 'Controversies' section.

Starczamora (talk) 16:55, 1 March 2008 (UTC) --Kakofonous (talk) 16:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I am concerned that a large number of the article's sources come from official websites related to its content. From this page: "Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy."--Kakofonous (talk) 02:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the contents were actually sourced from INQ7.net, a tie-up between Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA Network, but it is no longer available and would have to rely from the official website. I will try to look for more independent sources. Starczamora (talk) 02:17, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All images have been edited with respective fair use rationales, but with certain arguments...
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