Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Raul Casanova/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 22:39, 7 January 2008.

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Raul Casanova

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I'm nominating this article for featured article because I believe this is a very thorough, detailed, well-written, accurate and interesting article about baseball catcher Raul Casanova. Alex (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose – I believe the article fails some of the featured article criteria, and should be improved on some points:
  • Fails 1.(b): the article barely addresses the years between 1972 and 1990.
  • Fails 1.(c): many facts in the article don't have source references.
  • Fails 2.(a): the article has a very short lead section; the lead is not a good summary, some information in the lead is not in the article.
  • I noticed many sentences start with the word "He", some copyediting could be useful.
  • I also think the section 'professional baseball' should be split up into subsections.

– Ilse@ 00:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Oppose This article is horrible. The lead section sucks and there are not enough references. The article is not comprehensive and needs a personal life section. --Kaypoh (talk) 01:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Please try to comment in a constructive manner. Instead of saying the lead "sucks", provide something actionable, such as "The lead is not comprehensive, and fails to include major points from the article, such as [example] and [example]." This both promotes a better atmosphere and better helps the nominator to improve the article. Pagrashtak 02:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose, not even close to featured. There needs to be many more sources, the lead and the sections "The Draft" and "Overall Analysis" are uncomprehensive, and there is no image, to name a few problems. --RandomOrca2 (talk) 02:38, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • See Lee Smith (baseball) and Bob Meusel as examples of baseball players FAs, and follow that lead. Secret ^account 21:42, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose: Article is in a bunch of tiny chunks rather than prose paragraphs, the WP:LEAD needs to be expanded, etc. Take Secret's advice and look at those two FA's. Wizardman 02:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose: Not even close. See all above. Also much of the problem identified in the peer review have not been solved. Furhtermore, I think there is a reason for the quality hierarchy. Jumping from start classto FA is very ambitious, try to get it to Good Article first; that is easier to achieve; although the article would need substantial improvements even for that. Arnoutf 12:55, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

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.