Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Great Dictator/archive1

The Great Dictator[edit]

This film is nowadays considered as a classic for two main reasons:

It starrs Charlie Chaplin, a person who brought happiness to the world in a time of war
It is a satire of one of the most important events in modern history.

Although the film itself might proove difficult to understand at times, its climax is one that you wouldn't forget easily, especially the speech that Charlie Chaplin ends this film with. Keith Azzopardi 13:49, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object. The article is full of "citation needed" tags. MLilburne 15:11, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. Insufficient references, music is not even mentioned, no box office results, critical reception is too short, "analyses" is not adequate, for such a film I would expect something like this V_for_Vendetta_(film)#Themes, the DVD release is not mentioned. Jaqu 15:50, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Send to Good Article candidates. Not near Featured Article quality. Needs much better referencing and more comprehensive information about the film, criticism, releases, etc. Kaldari 01:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object, as above. Polite note to the nominator. It is indeed an article which should be developed to the FA quality. We all agree that this is an important film about which Wikipedia should have as nice an article as possible. However, we push articles to the FA status because they have FA quality, not because we wish they did. I encourage you to send it to peer review instead. Pascal.Tesson 04:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. Just because a film is a classic doesn't make it a featured article. If it's such a classic, there should be plenty more citations and references. I'm sure we can come up with info on this to make it FA, but it's not even close to GA as it stands now. Anthony Hit me up... 04:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]