Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Vladimir Putin/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 by User:SandyGeorgia 20:16, 16 August 2008 [1].

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Vladimir Putin

Nominator(s): Bugnot (talk)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because this is a very well-written article that I believe clearly satisfies all the criteria of a Featured-Article. It's about the former President and current Prime Minister of the largest country in the world, a person about whom readers and researchers alike would want to know more about. It's also lucidly written, discussed and edited, very well-referenced with nearly 300 references to its credit! Please provide your support or opinions freely. Thanks for your support. Bugnot (talk) 21:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Comment: All the images check out fine, except for Image:Vladimir Putin Time Man of the Year.jpg, which needs non-free use rationale for the Vladimir Putin article. Also, the section about him being a billionaire, IMO, doesn't belong as a sub-heading under the presidency section, but rather in the personal life section somewhere. Make sure blocks of references are in numerical order. I saw at least a half dozen unordered. What's the point of the "Prime Ministry (2008-Present)" section. It's empty, with no sub-headings. Do something so it isn't dead space. Third bullet in the anecdote section: "fishing trip" is an external link, and makes the sentence look extremely ugly. Delink it (and add a reference if necessary). Same with personal wealth section. It is stated that the shares of some company are 5.36 per share. That's nice, but it's cited with another ugly external link. Again, somehow make it into a proper reference. The article is fairly well-written. Also, please put Putin's russian name (which is in the article's lead) in the "Alternative Names" field in the persondata box at the bottom. I don't think it's required, but it would make me happy and can only serve to improve the article. Calor (talk) 23:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

• References need formatting per WP:CITE/ES
• There's a citation needed tag
• several dead links

Gary King (talk) 00:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Support It's a well-written article and contains detailed information about an important person.--Bugnot (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Struck support from nominator. Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 15:45, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Unstruck; the nominator is not a significant contributor to the article. (The nominator also didn't follow WP:FAC instructions about notifying significant contributors.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments Sources need some serious formating, and I won't bother looking through the sources for reliablitiy until they are fixed. Ealdgyth - Talk 12:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose. Criteria 4 - Length. The article is very long (currently 67 kB of readable prose and 149,387 bytes total). It could make better use of Wikipedia:Summary Style, for example Vladimir Putin#Foreign policy is about 18 kB of prose, the same as Foreign policy of Vladimir Putin; Vladimir Putin#Foreign policy should be a summary of Foreign policy of Vladimir Putin. --maclean 23:37, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

• Closing note: per WP:FAC instructions, nominator hasn't responded to input here and didn't consult significant contributors, issues include reliable sources, images, MoS issues and content. The tips at WP:FCDW/March 17, 2008 can be used to locate volunteers, as well as to invite editors providing feedback here, to work on article improvements through a peer review. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:14, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

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