Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Badge of shame/1

Badge of shame edit

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Result: Delisted. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 01:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article reads like a grab bag of trivia. I feel it was made a good article on the basis of having a lot of sections and references. The Fictional Works, Media and Politics sections, in particular, have little valuable encyclopic information, but instead seem to be an attempt to document every usage of the term "badge of shame," or at least ones in recent memory that have significance to the editors who added them. This article needs to be refactored and edited to conform to GA standards. NTK (talk) 12:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Yes, much of the article reads like unrelated trivia held together by flimsy synthesis. The article would be better if it had more material on the general nature, purpose and consequences of shame badges, drawn from authoratative sources. As currently constructed it's borderline on several criteria: 1a, 2c, 3a and 3b. Majoreditor (talk) 01:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. There is no doubt that some symbols in history have been regarded as badges of shame. But the article has to make absolutely explicit which authors of which reliable secondary sources are being used to tie together these multiple different symbols together under a common theme, otherwise it is original research by synthesis. The article does not do that at the moment, and if it cannot, it faces not just delisting, but deletion. Geometry guy 21:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]