Wikipedia:Featured article review/Gerald Ford/archive3

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) 6:10, 27 June 2020 (UTC) [1].

Notified: WP BIO, WP MILHIST, WP US Presidents, WP Michigan, WP Cold War, WP American politics, WP Conservatism, WP US Congress, WP Scouting, WP College football

This is a 2006 promotion whose main editor is no longer active. It was last reviewed in 2009. The talk page notifiction from 11 February mentions sourcing and citation concerns, and resulted in no improvement. The article has grown from 8,500 words of prose to almost 12,000 words, so most of the article is unvetted for FA standards. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:19, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Sourcing could use improvement. Article should be sourced to scholarly biographies of Mr. Ford—such as Greene's which is definitely underused—and other academic sources, rather than a hodgepoge of news articles, obits, and books of variable quality and relevance. buidhe 21:17, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• I've just added a series of cite needed tags, as there are entire paragraphs in this article that are lacking citation. The Post Presidency Activity subsection also needs consolodating and reformatting; right now its just a bunch of proseline. -Indy beetle (talk) 23:14, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• I've removed the fair use image of the postage stamp, the fair use rationale was for a different article and since the stamp wasn't discussed in the article at the time of removal, the fair use requirements were not met. Hog Farm (talk) 23:42, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and organization. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:06, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delist while the article could be fixed, it would take significant work and I don't see anyone stepping up. buidhe 17:39, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist. Tagged for citation. Unsourced paragraphs, sentences and clauses. Single-sentence sections and paragraphs; the 'Activity' section is particularly disjointed and reads like a list of miscellanea. Some length and structure concerns, such as devoting as much space in the infobox to his college football career as to his presidency and vice-presidency combined. DrKay (talk) 12:33, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist, no improvement. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:39, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delist too much unsourced content, and having super short paragraphs makes the text look choppy. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 18:02, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• 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) 16:10, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.