Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/FC Steaua Bucureşti/archive3

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 02:11, 14 August 2008 [1].

Nominator(s): Gabinho (talk)

previous FAC (14:32, January 26, 2008)

older FAC (02:59, 11 September 2007)

older FAC (01:11, 7 July 2007)

Gabinho (talk) 18:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]

• Oppose "compulsory military stage" (presumably a calque from stagiu militar obligatoriu) shows that the English needs checking, this should be something like "compulsory military service". There are also a number of dead links. - Francis Tyers · 19:02, 11 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]
• Oppose Many of the same issues still exist from the previous FAC in January - not sure why September's is linked above - and there are plenty of dead links too now. Peanut4 (talk) 19:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]
• Oppose. There's a part of the history of Steaua that is not properly researched for this article: the early history 1950s and 1960s. Evenimentul Zilei published a very well researched series of articles which documents the early history of Steaua. I think that for making the article more NPOV, they could be used as references. Currently, most of the references of that era are from their official site, which makes it a bit unbalanced/POV. I put the list of articles (in Romanian) here: Talk:FC Steaua Bucureşti#The series of articles on Steaua published by Evenimentul Zilei. bogdan (talk) 19:36, 11 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]

Strong oppose - I wasn't here for the previous FACs, but a quick glance shows that this isn't close to featured quality.

• All Romanian-language references need a disclaimer indicating this.
• Citation needed tag in ownership. This is a no-no for any featured article candidate.
• A lot of dead links, as said by multiple reviewers above.
• Lead is inadequate per WP:LEAD. Needs major expansion.
• This is from the lead: "They became the first east European team to win the European Cup being victorious in 1986 European Cup final." This is not prose that meets Criterion 1a.
• Why is there this much bolding in History?
• From Statistics and records: "Steaua currently boasts itself with the most impressive pedigree in Romania."?

I noticed this failed a good article review last month. I recommend withdrawing this and working toward making this a GA. If the article can't pass a good article review, it has no chance here, and frankly it needs more work before it meets GA standards. Giants2008 (17-14) 20:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]

• Oppose per past FAC/GAC comments that I made.Blnguyen (bananabucket ) 04:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]
• comment Image:SteauaCrests.jpg seems excessive and decorative, failing WP:NFCC#8 Fasach Nua (talk) 08:30, 12 August 2008 (UTC) [reply ]

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