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Tomas Osmeña was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
November 19, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 8, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California?

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Failed GA[edit]

As of 21 October 2006, I am making a speedy failing for this article to reach Good Article status, per WP:WIAGA, because of the following fatal reason: This article is totally unsourced. Please provide your reliable sources according to WP:CITE to support the three pillars of Wikipedia: neutral point of view, no element of original research and verifiable. I've put a template in this article for editors to fill in their references. Please do not consider it as discouraging. Furthermore, because this article has a subject of a living person, please conform it with WP:BLP guidelines. If all of those matters above have been fixed, this article can be renominate it again. Cheers. — Indon (reply) — 13:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Back to GA nomination[edit]

Sorry, I was too quick to type and missed the source. So it is listed back. Apologies. — Indon (reply) — 13:40, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Failed GA[edit]

This article fails in several areas. Please don't be discouraged. You can rewrite it an resubmit it at a later date. Some observations:

Neutral point of view? No The article sings this individual's praises with every breath:
- "Tommy", as he is fondly called
- He not only excelled in the realm of public service but practically in all his endeavors.
- Coming from a family where politics and leadership is a natural dominion, his management and leadership skills were honed at a very young age.
- He also became the moral fiber of numerous activities and programs
- ...he took the challenge of bringing Cebu to its grandeur (Note this is NPOV about Cebu; not about the politician himself. Who says it has "grandeur"?)
Well-written? This needs help too. Several sections read like lists of items of events.
Verifiable? No. Several important statements are uncited.

I hope you will go back to the drawing board and rewrite this. Good luck with future nominations.--Ling.Nut 21:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]