Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Saudi Arabia/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 16:58, 22 May 2007.

Saudi Arabia

What do you think about this aritcle? Stranger17 20:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Too few references and a clean-up tag. Alientraveller 20:26, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The lead has more naming-and-pronunciation-cruft than it has facts about the country itself. Eight bolded titles (nine before I de-bolded the full title of the country in Arabic) should be reason enough to instigate a minor purge. Peter ^Isotalo 21:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Alientraveller. The references that do exist are poorly formatted. As per Peter, the lead does a poor job of summarizing the article. A nomination statement of "What do you think of this article?" confirms inevitable requests to first send this to peer review. --Phoenix 21:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There is a clean-up tag, a stub tag, not very many references and they are not cited properly. --thedemonhog talk contributions 23:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, to further on my above statement, this nomination epitomizes what's been termed a "drive-by nomination". You've made one edit to the page, the same goes for the talk page. No mention of a desire to nominate so those more closely following it could had no opportunity to respond. --Phoenix 04:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- per above- there needs to be a lot more references, and a better lead. Thunderwing 18:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.