Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Regional cuisine/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 SandyGeorgia 19:10, 4 July 2011 [1].

Regional cuisine[edit]

Featured article candidates/Regional cuisine/archive1

Nominator(s): Northamerica1000 (talk) 06:51, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article is being nominated for featured article status because it exceeds all of the criterion for featured articles. Northamerica1000 (talk) 06:51, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: An initial look at this article shows that it is a rather unusual one. I wonder whether it would perhaps be more suited to featured list candidates? J Milburn (talk) 11:19, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose from Ucucha:

The text about German cuisine is not supported by the reference to http://www.food-links.com/countries/germany/german-regional-food-specialties.php (which hardly seems like a high-quality reliable source anyway).
The text about Dutch cuisine is referenced only to "Spierings, T. "Dutch Cuisine.", which is unverifiable and needs at least a publisher and year.
Some references list Google Books as the publisher, which is clearly incorrect.
There are citation needed tags.
I'm unsure whether the whole concept of this article is right—it's more or less a list of the features of regional cuisines around the world (as J Milburn implies), not an exploration of the subject of a "regional cuisine", which would cover (for example) why cuisines tend to differ from place to place.

The reference issues I noted are just a few that I found on a quick check; a thorough one may find many more. I think that thorough check should be carried out outside of FAC. Ucucha 13:29, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - while this is an interesting article, I agree with many of the concerns raised by J Milburn and Ucucha above. In addition, here are some further concerns:

Lead is too short for the size of the article, per WP:LEAD
Sandwiching of text between images
Use of contractions, wikilinking issues, other WP:MOS problems
Many more citations are needed. A good rule of thumb is to have a minimum of one per paragraph
Copy-editing needed for flow and tone
Highly inconsistent referencing format
Use of potentially unreliable sources

Suggest withdrawal to pursue peer review prior to renomination. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:59, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Too many citation needed templates. TGilmour (talk) 19:32, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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