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September 11 attacks

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Result: Delisted - see below. Geometry guy 23:27, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

There are a few issues with this article and I'm wondering if it should still be listed as a good article:

• There are several dead links among the references.
• Some overlinking issues too. For instance al-Qaeda, bin Laden, Taliban and Pakistan are linked too many times. There are also links to states or cities like Indonesia, Malaysia or Hamburg which I think are not relevant to the article.
• The "Long term effect" section doesn't seem comprehensive - in particular I would expect to see a subsection about the consequences on government policies all around the world regarding terrorism.
• The "FBI investigation" section seems to short (only two sentences).
• The pictures seem a bit random - for instance it's not clear why these two pictures [1][2] are in the "Economic aftermath" section or this one in "International response". It seems they've been put there for decoration only. Also I would have expected to see at least one picture of Osama bin Laden in the section about him.

So overall it's not a bad article but there are quite a few issues in my opinion. Laurent (talk) 21:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Coverage

• Missing:
  • consequences on government policies all around the world regarding terrorism, per Laurent. --Philcha (talk) 13:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
• Excessive, not relevant:
  • The wikilink to roll is just basic aerodynamics, nothing about the struggle for the doomed plane on 9/11. --Philcha (talk) 13:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • No need to name Felicia Dunn-Jones or Leon Heyward, it's enough that longer-term effects killed 2 more. --Philcha (talk) 13:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • "According to Jerrold Post, a professor of psychology at George Washington University and former CIA officer, the hijackers were well-educated, mature adults, whose belief systems were fully formed" --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Section "al-Qaeda and blowback" about the origins of al-Qaeda. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • "At that point, Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were in a period of transition, having just relocated back to Afghanistan from Sudan.[97] The 1998 African Embassy bombings and Bin Laden's 1998 fatwā marked a turning point, with bin Laden intent on attacking the United States" in section "Planning of the attacks". But the 1st and last sentences should stay. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • In facts it's easier to identify the parts that are relevant. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • It's time for the article's nominator/defender to check the rest of the articles for excessive and irrelevant text. --Philcha (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Delisted

Given the work needed to bring this article back to GA status and the lack of interest in doing so, I have delisted it. Laurent (talk) 22:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)