Wikipedia:Featured article review/Charles Edward Magoon/archive1

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) 1:04, 20 April 2021 (UTC) [1].

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Charles Edward Magoon

Notified: Jrp, WikiProject Cuba, WikiProject Politics, WikiProject Biography/Politics and government, 2020-12-05 diff

Review section

I'm nominating this Featured Article for review because I believe it fails criteria 1. c), "a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature". The subject of this article was, among other things, the governor of Cuba during the Second Occupation of Cuba by the US. Currently, the bulk of the sources in this article are contemporary newspaper articles dated between 1900 and 1909. This does not allow for a retrospective look into this politician's career by historians, especially when there is so much academic material out there (I've listed a few sources in talk, and a brief search in JSTOR shows many more). RetiredDuke (talk) 13:37, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

• This may be an accelerate candidate - it's just so far from WP:FACR #1c. There is a decent corpus of scholarly literature about this figure, yet the article is almost entirely sourced to contemporary newspapers reports. The lack of use of non-contemporary scholarly sources also limits the amount of legacy material that can be had, which suggests #1b issues, as well. Hog Farm _Talk 05:13, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

• Move to FARC accelerated - Needs a significant rewrite with modern sources, also some missing cites in general. FemkeMilene (talk) 18:37, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
• Move to FARC Accelerated (official declaration). This is just so far from 1c. Almost none of the sizable scholarly literature on this topic is being used. Hog Farm _Talk 20:07, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
• Move to FARC accelerated Except for one 1971 source (footnoted twice), the rest of the sources are from 100+ years ago. This article will need a complete rewrite using current academic scholarship, which is difficult for FAR/FARC to accomplish. Z1720 (talk) 23:19, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and comprehensiveness. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:29, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

• Accelerated delist - Needs a complete rewrite, as it uses almost exclusively old newspaper sources and ignores significant amounts of scholarly literature. Hog Farm _Talk 00:42, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
• Delist. Unsourced statements and paragraphs. DrKay (talk) 07:48, 17 April 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) 21:04, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

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