Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Getafe/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 00:08, 6 March 2008.

Getafe

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Self-nominator: (I wrote the article in the Wikipedia in Spanish and the traduction here is made by other users.) I'm nominating this article for featured article because it's a complete, long, well ordenated, and excellent article. It meets the FA Criteria. It's traduced from the Wikipedia in Spanish. Miguel303xm (talk) 11:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, sorry. References are lacking. MOS breaches – linking standalone years, punctuation in captions, inconsistent conversions from metric to imperial, non-breaking space usage and dash usage are the things that jumped out at me. While the translator's English is undoubtedly a lot better than my Spanish, the prose isn't really up to scratch either, on a cursory glance through.

That said, it looks like the information is all there (again, based on a cursory glance), so it's just tidy-up time. Carré (talk) 14:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: the criteria for a Featured article in Spanish is immensely different than a Featured article in English. This article does not meet the English Wikipedia's FA criteria, unfortunately; the prose is clunky and repetitive ("the city" is used far too many times in the first paragraph, for example) and references, of which there are too few, are not formatted correctly. As Carré points out above there are also numerous issues with style, as well. I would suggest finding a thorough copy-editor or two and then trying for Good Article status first before jumping straight to FAC. María (habla conmigo) 17:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Very bad prose, un-referenced, the sections could be etimology - geography - history - demography - economy - culture (sights, education) - transports - famous people - twin cities - references - bibliography - commons - wiki-links - external links. MOJSKA 666 (msg) 17:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You say "It's un-referenced". So, what is this?: Getafe#References. Miguel303xm (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above user was incorrect. There are very few inline citations, however, and none of them are formatted properly per WP:CITE. This is one of the reasons why the article does not fulfill the FA criteria at this time. María (habla conmigo) 21:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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