Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Polled Dorset/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 GrahamColm 10:01, 31 May 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Polled Dorset edit

Featured article candidates/Polled Dorset/archive1

Nominator(s): Isaiahgee (talk) 22:32, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because it meets the FA criteria and is important to highlight the aspects of the Polled Dorset sheep to the general wikipedia community as time, experiment, resources, collaboration and studies all contribute from a classroom prospective.--Isaiahgee (talk) 22:32, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Have you followed the FAC instructions which includes: "Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article prior to a nomination"? Graham Colm (talk) 18:07, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. While I've no doubt that this makes a solid GA, I do not feel that it is ready for FA status. I've cleaned up the references cited, but a quick Google Scholar search shows that there is a wealth of published academic material on this breed, and that's the kind of literature the article would ideally be based on. I suspect that these articles will also contain information that the article does not. I've cited a few as an example in a further reading section. J Milburn (talk) 10:57, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Graham Colm (talk) 21:40, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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