Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Space Science Fiction Magazine/archive1
Closing rationale edit
From the WP:FAC instructions:
For a nomination to be promoted to FA status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. Consensus is built among reviewers and nominators; the director or his delegate determines whether there is consensus. A nomination will be removed from the list and archived if, in the judgment of the director or his delegate:
- actionable objections have not been resolved;
- consensus for promotion has not been reached; or
- insufficient information has been provided by reviewers to judge whether the criteria have been met.
When Mike Christie (talk · contribs) submitted this candidate "as a result of a conversation on FAC about very short FAs", he said it was a test of "the general question of whether there is a minimum length for a featured article". Discussions about article size, word count, how we define comprehensiveness and scope of articles, and whether short articles can or should be merged to other articles, have exceeded hundreds of KB (see Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/archive31, Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/archive32 and WT:WIAFA), but have resulted in no clear consensus for change to the Featured article criteria after three weeks of discussion. The declarations on the FAC were as divided and varying as the talk page debate and declarations on the straw polls.
Considering the divisions in the discussion and straw polls about short articles, I did not close this FAC because I judged Opposes as actionable or supported by the 1b criterion. I am closing it because, after three weeks, consensus for promotion has not been reached, and it is not for me to overrule consensus on a matter in which the criterion (1b) is silent. Most of the reviewers entering a declaration were not at ease with the idea of this article as a Featured article at this time, which should not be viewed as a "test of minimum length" for other candidates. As the discussion about short articles continues, I don't consider this a final sentence on this or any other "short" article, and I appreciate that Mike Christie brought it forward to help focus the debate.
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC)