Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Samba school/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 Karanacs 16:22, 14 September 2009 [1].

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Samba school

Nominator(s): Quintinense (talk) 23:37, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

• Featured article candidates/Samba school/archive1

I am nominating this for featured article because is a traduction of article escola de samba, featured in Portuguese Wikipedia. I'm not speak english very well, but littles erros of gramatic or traduction can be easily repaired.

I think this article perfectly explains the details of the carnival, in addition to sources for quse has all the information. There are still minor errors of syntax in the wiki markup due to differences between the codes of pt.wiki and en, but I understand that vcs how to easily and even a bot can fix broken refs. Quintinense (talk) 23:37, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Strongly suggest withdrawal No offense intended, but you can't expect to just run an article through a translator and expect "brilliant prose" to result; indeed, many sentences don't even make sense:

• "Were Sambistas of Estácio, with the founding of Deixa Falar (Let Speaking) in 1928, who organized the foundations of current schools of samba, including Ismael Silva, in his idea of creating a carnavival block different, he could dance and move to the sound of samba."
• "In writing of the newspaper - which also housed a successful composers (such as Antônio Nassar, Armando Reis and Orestes Barbosa), the idea of holding the organization of a Carnival parade"
• "It is a kind of orchestra with percussion instruments, to accompany the singing and lead the pace of the parade." I assume this is referring to the section header "Battery", but these type of references are very confusing.
• "It is the name by which may be called the president, the president of honor and patron of the school. You can also refer to this way of carnival directors."

Just a few examples of why this is not close to FA quality at the moment. I suggest withdrawing and working with an English speaker to work out the problems. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:01, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Oppose

• While the prose may not have as many grammatical errors as one might expect, it requires a thorough copy-edit for the prose to be "brilliant".
• Images need ALT text.
• Non of the sources are in English. It's OK to have some non-English sources, but too many makes the article unverifiable.
• The obvious formatting issues.

I'm sorry to say so, but I suggest you withdraw this and take it to peer review. Mm40 (talk) 00:02, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - in addition to the obviously non-FA quality of the English prose, some image captions and headings are not even in English at all (what does "quesites" mean?), four images in the lead is three too many and makes it look a right mess, various other formatting issues. Strongly suggest withdrawal as per the guys/gals above -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:51, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

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