Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Music of Chicago/archive1

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

The article was not promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 18:45, 7 September 2008 [1].

Music of Chicago[edit]

Nominator(s): Mertozoro (talk)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because, I have noticed after editing this article majorly over the last few months, that it is becoming a good piece of work, and may be a good featured article. The topic is good, the quality is good! Please leave your messages here. Or talk to me at my user talk page. Mertozoro (talk) 04:13, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Yes, yes this article is not yet ready to be a FA. Needs way more quality, and info. Im sorry, I thought wrong.Mertozoro (talk) 17:09, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you withdraw the nomination and after some more work go for GA and bring it back here following a peer-review. There's no shame in this, I made a premature nomination once. Graham Colm ^Talk 17:16, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose youre right, I will withdraw, and try again some other time.Mertozoro (talk) 18:36, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Sorry, this article doesn't meet the FA criteria yet. The first thing that stands out is that it's just too short and doesn't really cover all the aspects of the topic. What is there is not fully referenced. It also needs MOS cleanup and the like. Some example FAs you can work based on to improve this one (keep in mind that not all FAs are of the same quality as some are older...) are Music of Athens, Georgia, Music of Maryland, Music of Minnesota, Music of Nigeria, Music of the Lesser Antilles, and Music of the United States. Good luck, Giggy (talk) 06:26, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Oppose. Where are the footnotes?--Andrea 93 (msg) 06:32, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Oppose. I note that nominator assessed this article as A class at his own ititiative, before it was re-assessed C, which is generous.--Grahame (talk) 10:23, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. It's a start class article, little more than a list. The article needs more depth, more history, more analysis, and obviously many more citations. Graham Colm ^Talk 12:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, nowhere near ready, I'm afraid jimfbleak (talk) 14:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Pile-on at this point for all the reasons mentioned above. Snowball? Madcoverboy (talk) 14:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by nominator; please see WP:FAC/ar and leave the {{fac}} template on the talk page until the Bot goes through. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:43, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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