Wikipedia:Featured article review/Cretan War (205–200 BC)/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 Nikkimaria via FACBot (talk) 2:51, 28 May 2022 (UTC) [1].

Cretan War (205–200 BC)

Notified: Kyriakos, Robth, WikiProject Military history, WikiProject Rome, WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, WikiProject Greece, Dec 2021

Review section

I am nominating this featured article for review because, as noted by the great T8612:

This article is no longer up to FA standards. Several entire paragraphs rely exclusively on Polybius or Livy and lack modern sources, especially in "Roman intervention". Among the latter, Hammond and Walbank are the best sources on Macedonia, but Walbank's Commentary on Polybius is missing, as well as Paul Cartledge's works on Sparta.

None of these problems have been addressed since the article was noticed in 2021. (t · c) buidhe 03:36, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Re. primary sourcing, it hasn't even got the excuse of being added later. Piotrus even commented on an over-reliance on primary sources at its FAC, fifteen years ago. All its life. SN54129

Wikipedia mills grind slowly, apparently. High time to delist it due to the primary sources issue. What was ok in 2006 is not ok in 2022. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:36, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As noted, lots of primary sourcing. Unless someone is prepared to re-cite close to everything, this one is going to be demoted. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Move to FARC, no significant engagement towards issues. Hog Farm _Talk 19:16, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Move to FARC per Hog Farm (t · c) buidhe 20:23, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section largely concern sourcing. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:14, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delist, per comments by Gog and T8612. This one is in better shape than several other recently delisted ones like Thrasybulus or War against Nabis, but does need improvements which have not been forthcoming. Hog Farm _Talk 13:23, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delist lack of improvements. (t · c) buidhe 13:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delist sourcing issues have not been addressed. Z1720 (talk) 16:03, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:51, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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