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Potential superpowers

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Result: Delisted. After a month there is no consensus that the article should be a GA and serious concerns that have gone unaddressed. (t · c) buidhe 02:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

I am not sure what to make of this article. The title is overly broad as any country could be a potential superpower. Emerging superpower would be better, but still carry many of the same problems. The opening sentence is vague in its definition (use of speculated). It is pretty much presented in a list format. I am not sure if this topic can be written about without getting into original research. The talk page showcases this with the discussions on whether Japan and Brazil should still be included. Is China a super power or potential superpower? Is the USA still a superpower? It just seems to be open to so much interpretation and not many sources seem to discuss the topic in in an overarching way. As it is the sources used seem to hold vastly different views on what constitutes a superpower that there is no overall cohesion to many of the statements.

Anyway as to the criteria, the lead contains a lot of information not found in the article and lacks an overview of the actual body. It is contradictory, calling USA the only country that fulfils the criteria of a superpower (sourced to a reference that does not mention any criteria) followed by a citation overkill of sources saying how it is not sole superpower. The set up of the articles is a list of views of people that see the country or entity as a potential superpower, followed by those who don’t. The trouble with this set up is that it is giving the same weight to all opinions, which is not really justified (especially when the sources vary so much “real truth” to “New York times”. Obviously the tags need to be resolved (Citations, updates etc) for it to remain a good article.

I feel this needs to be judged by more editors than me so I am putting it through a community review. @Chidgk1: as the gar requester. @OccultZone: as the nominator. Aircorn (talk) 01:04, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

• Delist I have no idea who would benefit from reading this rubbish Chidgk1 (talk) 14:35, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

• Retain GA status There is absolutely no such issue with the article as it makes it certain that what really qualifies as 'potential superpower' through academia. We generally relied on the mainstream consensus to list who is a superpower and who would be a superpower, in line with WP:CONTEXTMATTERS. I think most of the issues cited here belong to talk page. Aman Kumar Goel ^(Talk) 06:26, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
• Comment The original research original research, undue, more citations needed and outdated tags were removed with this edit. I don't feel these issues have been adequately addressed, especially in light of a GA review. Aircorn (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

• It had to be removed in April, but I got busy elsewhere. The relevance tag regarding EU was wrongly added though. Aman Kumar Goel ^(Talk) 05:32, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

• Continue GA status: The article defined the term in a very concise and accurate manner. Speaking of facts, the U.S. is the only superpower in the world as of current. China and India are potential superpowers as they don't hold enough influence over the world. Russia and EU are other candidates but they are in decline. The article describes these facts accurately. I don't see any serious concerns with the article, and I think the tags at the top should be removed. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:47, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Where is this definition? There is no introductory sentence or explanation on what makes something a superpower or for that matter a potential superpower. It just jumps straight into a section on China. Like I said this is more presented as a list than an article. Even as a list it does not do a very good job of defining what can and cannot be included. The above comment emphasises the original research problems, where editors are using their own judgement to decide what is a superpower, a potential superpower or no longer a superpower. The retain !votes are moot at this stage anyway as the article has citation needed tags and clearly fails WP:LEAD. Aircorn (talk) 00:26, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

• Delist I haven't examined closely the individual country entries, but this article certainly fails 3a in that there is no discussion about what a potential superpower actually is. The very bare touching upon this topic in the lead was further soured by the first link I checked (Leika Kihara) having little to do with the sentence it supposedly supports. On criteria 4, I suspect the for and against article framing is also not a great way to structure each entry. CMD (talk) 13:30, 11 September 2021 (UTC)