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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 Ucucha 03:38, 10 February 2012 [1].

International Criminal Court investigation in Kenya[edit]

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Nominator(s): Pi (Talk to me! ) 05:49, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article became a GA last summer and I have recently expanded it with more complete information about the specifics of the criminal charges. In addition the results of the confirmation of charges hearings came out the other day and so I have updated the article to reflect this. I think the article is now sufficiently comprehensive to nominate it at FAC. Pi (Talk to me! ) 05:49, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This is a WikiCup nomination
  • Note: This is a WikiCup nomination. The following nominators are WikiCup participants: Pi. To the nominator: if you do not intend to submit this article at the WikiCup, feel free to remove this notice. UcuchaBot (talk) 00:01, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose at this time. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:36, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Several WP:MOS errors throughout. Footnotes should appear immediately after punctuation, with no space in between. "%" should be spelled out in article text, use endashes not hyphens for ranges, etc
  • "Violence continued until a peace deal was agreed upon between Kibaki and Odinga under the mediation of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whereby Kibaki would remain as President and Odinga would take over the newly-created office of the Prime Minister." - source?
  • "In order to force these communities to relocate, the group planned to inflict fear and destroy homes and property until the victims left the region." - source? Check for other unsourced and potentially problematic material
  • Citations should be complete and include at least the minimum information required - publisher and retrieval date for web sources, page numbers for multi-page sources. Don't use bare URLs as citations. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:36, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The source for those statements is the Decision on the Confirmation of Charges Pursuant to Article 61(7)(a) and (b) of the Rome Statute. This is the source for most of the information in the section "The prosecutor's allegation". I will go through it now and add specific page numbers. All the statements in the article are sourced but you're right, the page numbers should be there. Pi (Talk to me! ) 05:09, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so I was going through the article putting page numbers in all of the references (and ensuring that there's an inline source for each claim) when I noticed that the judgement on the confirmation of charges has mysteriously disappeared from the internet (and the link to it on the ICC website has been deleted). Since the ICC generally has all of these available I assume this is temporary and that it'll be up again shortly (I assume there may have been a mistake in the document). In the mean time I can (I think) find alternative sources. If you could bear with me I hope to get this done shortly.
Also, as for the MOS errors I noticed a few mistakes regarding spaces between punctuation and references and am fixing these Pi (Talk to me! ) 06:35, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I have improved the referencing in most of the article now. I just need to get the second judgement back online in order to finish referencing. I phoned the ICC public affairs unit who assured me it's being replaced. Pi (Talk to me! ) 10:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I've gone through the whole article now adding page numbers to the citations and adding additional citations where they were missing. I have also tried to resolve the WP:MOS issues where I could find them Pi (Talk to me! ) 12:12, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • A couple issues that jumped out to me at first glance, haven't read the article yet: there shouldn't be spaces before or between references, I fixed a couple in the lead (i.e. "...of the case.[10] [11]" & "...against Ali and Kosgey. [14][15]"). Also, I noticed that there are a lot of short sections, maybe condense some of them? Mark Arsten (talk) 07:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks, I just gave the article another sweep and checked each reference, fixing those with a problem. There are some small sections (I assume you mean the "prosecutor's allegation" section) but at the moment there is one section per crime and I quite like that. I could merge the sections into one for Ruto, Kosgey and Sang with a second for Muthaura, Kenyatta and Ali if people think that would be better Pi (Talk to me! ) 10:39, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ok, I don't know if there is a guideline about this, it's more of what I think would work best. I guess keep that idea in mind in case anyone else raises the issue. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

  • File:WilliamRuto.PNG has the same description as the parent image it was cropped from. Please update.
  • Other images are OK, however more images wouldn't be missed. May I suggest adding File:Cuno Tarfusser.jpg to the 'Pre-Trial Chamber authorization' section?

—Andrewstalk 21:42, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review. I have updated the description of the Ruto image and have also added the image of Tarfusser Pi (Talk to me! ) 11:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support on images —Andrewstalk 03:11, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, prose 1a, MOS 4 issues
  1. It's hard to believe we have a redirect to here from an article called Situation in the Republic of Kenya; what happens to that article name five years down the road?
  2. I found multiple instances of redundant text in the lead alone (which is typically the better polished part of an article); this suggests this article should be withdrawn and copyedited by someone unfamiliar with the text. [2]
  3. WP:MSH, inappropriate capitalization in section headings.
  4. Mutliple paragraphs beginning with "the prosecutor claims" or "the prosecutor alleges", repetitive text.
  5. Multiple instances of lengthy, cumbersome section headings for short, stubby sections suggest that better article organization is needed.

I see no recent peer review, and suggest the article will have a better shot at Featured status if it first has one. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:06, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]


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