Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Gloria Steinem/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 archived by Graham Beards via FACBot (talk) 02:37, 2 November 2014 (UTC) [1].

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Gloria Steinem

Nominator(s): Maranjosie (talk) 16:25, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

This article is about Gloria Steinem, a famous American feminist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. It should be featured because it is a good, comprehensive article about an important person. Maranjosie (talk) 16:25, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Oppose, recommend withdrawal -- Sorry but I don't think this article is close to FA quality as yet, particularly regards referencing and prose/structure. What stood out immediately was: 1) a good many statements are uncited and 2) two sections, Political awakening and activism and Later life, are almost list-like in their short, often single-sentence, paragraphs; another section, CIA Ties (not a MOS-compliant heading BTW), is ultra-short. I'd recommend withdrawing and re-working, then putting through WP:Peer Review before renominating at FAC. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:24, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Graham Beards (talk) 02:37, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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