Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Polish minority in the Czech Republic/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 01:18, 23 January 2008.

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Polish minority in the Czech Republic

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I'm nominating this article for featured article because... It is well written and has a broad coverage of the topic, the formatting is consistent and it contains many, well placed images that do an excellent job in illustrating the subject matter. There have been virtually no content disputes and te article seems overall stableThe Dominator (talk) 04:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose—This article doesn't appear to be FA quality yet.
  • The lead section does not summarize the article. It does not cover the history or other sections.
  • To me there is awkwardness and a lack of flow/continuity in much of the writing. I think it needs a good copy edit as it doesn't quite satisfy criteria 1a.
  • "It was decided..." See: Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words
  • There seem to be some rather brief sentences, which don't help the flow. "Volkslists were introduced." "Rapid Polonization followed."
  • The History section seems to be missing some information. Examples:
    • "At the end of the century, ethnic tensions appeared as the area's economic significance grew." This sentence appears but it has no other context. Is it related to the following? "There was a very tense climate in 1918–1920, a time of decision." Why was it a tense time? This is unclear.
    • In the "Decision time (1918-1920)" section, was the territory initially part of Poland? This is unclear.
    • In the "In Poland (1938-1939)" section, why did the Polish population change their mood? It appears that the discrimination was applied to the Czech residents, rather than the Poles.
  • I don't believe it is standard practice to end a sentence with a "etc..". A single period should do.
  • In the sentence that begins "This division was in..." the hyphen should be an em-dash.
• That's enough for now.—RJH (talk) 20:20, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

• Abstain / Comment from the creator. As a creator I think it is definitely a GA article but not yet FA. Some things aren't addressed yet (sport etc.), many issues should be expanded. I intend to do so maybe during the summer holidays when I will have more time hopefully. I plan to borrow additional books and expand it and generally improve some sections. I would not nominate the article myself. - Darwinek (talk) 20:40, 19 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.