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Norman Finkelstein edit

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Result: Delisted. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:27, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A controversial figure; difficult to write a GA about. Article has not been maintained to standards since 2007:

The lead dedicates no time to his views or academic work, but an entire paragraph to two incidents in 2007/2008
Contains overly long quotes throughout the article. Many from Finkelstein himself, giving me some NPOV concerns
One cn tag.
Too many external links. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, not great. There are a huge number of quotes sourced directly to Finkelstein himself, making them primary with no real sense of the appropriate weight for the extracts established in secondary sources. A large volume of material is self-published on his personal website. To produce a B-class article, let alone a GA status article, this page would basically need to be half-scrapped and rewritten from scratch. Like many GAs listed in 2007, it is not worthy of the status. Definitely one for delisting. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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