Wikipedia:Featured article review/FairTax/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was delisted by Nikkimaria via FACBot (talk) 7:25, 1 May 2021 (UTC) [1].

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FairTax

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Review section

I am nominating this featured article for review because, as stated by Hog Farm on the talk page,

This article does not currently meet the current featured article criteria. There is an outstanding maintenance tag, bits of uncited text, and heavy use of advocacy sources instead of scholarly sources. I have concerns about the sheer amount of sourcing here to advocacy groups, political action groups, and sources that clearly take sides on this debate, such as "Fair Tax: The Truth: Answering the Critics" and sources with titles like " "The U.S. Corporate Income Tax System: Once a World Leader, Now A Millstone Around the Neck of American Business". I have serious concerns about the quality of this article.

There has also been a POV tag on the article for a year, which is a bad look when paired with a star. (t · c) buidhe 16:32, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

I see Devonian Wombat has removed the "Millstone" source, which is an improvement, but only scratches the surface. As an additional comment, Bartlett holds the fringey viewpoint that FairTax is a Scientologist plot, so it seems like the usage of Bartlett should be trimmed/avoided for this subject. Hog Farm _Talk 01:14, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Move to FARC - One dodgy source removed, but no progress since and the sourcing is not up to what is generally expected for FAs. Hog Farm _Talk 01:54, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Move to FARC no progress has been made to address the POV tag at the top of the page. Z1720 (talk) 15:29, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and neutrality. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:04, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

• Delist - I have serious concerns about the quality of the sourcing used in this article, and that big orange neutrality tag can't be addressed without addressing the sourcing in this case. Sadly, very little has been done here. Hog Farm _Talk 15:43, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
• Delist per above (t · c) buidhe 23:51, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
• Delist. Tagged as needing more viewpoints for over a year. DrKay (talk) 08:08, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
• Delist. Far too much uncited content, to begin with. Sorry. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:16, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
• Closing note: This removal candidate has been delisted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please leave the {{featured article review}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:25, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

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