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].

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Regional cuisine

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• Featured article candidates/Regional cuisine/archive1

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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