Wikipedia:Featured article review/Harbhajan Singh/archive2

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The article was delisted by DrKay via FACBot (talk) 3:52, 31 July 2016 (UTC) [1].

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Harbhajan Singh

Notified: YellowMonkey, WikiProject Cricket

Review comments

I am nominating this featured article for review because it now falls some way short of FA standards. It passed FAC (review here in 2007 and came through a FAR in 2008. We are struggling on criteria 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d as this article has not really been kept up to date since around 2008. I think we're also in trouble with 2b and 3c. Here is the summary I gave on the talk page at the beginning of May, but these are samples only.

• There are numerous unsourced statements. This is a BLP which makes this a major problem.
• There are prose issues throughout, and I'm not sure this would pass FAC today; lots of run-on sentences and repetitive structures. Someone should look closely at this.
• The lead basically stops in 2008 and has nothing for the last eight years
• "Harbhajan Singh married his longtime girlfriend, actress Geeta Basra, on 29 October 2015 in Jalandhar." is listed in "Early Life"
• There is hardly anything about his career between 2011 and 2015
• The structure of the article is fairly impenetrable.
• The later text is basically prose line.
• Quite a lot of fancruft throughout.

These are the changes since the article was last at FAR in 2008. Unfortunately, I'm not sure this is recoverable as the nominator and lead contributor, YellowMonkey, is long gone and there is a huge amount of work to do. Sarastro1 (talk) 11:55, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

• Comment: The readable prose size for this article is 74 kB, which is way WP:TOOBIG. The version which passed FA was only 38 kB, which means the current article is double the size of the original one. The article is an absolute disaster, for reasons outlined above, all of which I agree with. It should be cut by at least a third to make it anywhere near acceptable. Recommend delisting. Kingsindian ♝ ♚ 13:16, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

FARC comments

Moved to FARC section - above points need looking at. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:52, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

• Delist – It doesn't look like any real work has been done to resolve the issues raised above. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:04, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
• Delist: Nothing has been done, alas, because there is no-one left to work on this. It is no-where near FA standards anymore I'm afraid. Sarastro1 (talk) 13:09, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
• Delist per Giants2008 and Sarastro1. --Laser brain (talk) 13:56, 29 July 2016 (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. DrKay (talk) 13:52, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

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