Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Karl Benz/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 review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 03:46, 3 March 2007.

Karl Benz[edit]

A very good article about an important man. What do you think? Tomer T 17:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose. Just one citation/reference. Needs a lot of work in terms of referencing. CloudNine 20:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per CloudNine, plus the article includes one-sentence paragraphs. Slof 03:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I also oppose on the grounds that the article has no citations. One other small thing - in my opinion, this page is overlinked. I don't believe that words such as "work" or "bridge" or "wooden" need to be linked. Awadewit 04:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - needs citations, prose is too listy and lead should be 2-3 concise paragraphs summarising article. There is the basis for an FA there and it shouldn't take too much work, though I doubt it will be in this nomination. cheers Cas Liber 04:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Article is barely referenced. Suggest withdraw from FAC and undergo peer review first. --Dweller 13:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose fair use Image:Zzz-BenzMerceBenz.jpg adds nothing to the article. Hipocrite - «Talk» 16:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Opposeper lack of citations expected of Wikipedia's best work. Wikipediarul e s 2221 00:14, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Well, no infobox, not enough citations (at all), prose needs some improvement in parts. Article needs oodles of work before being nominated again. Begin with referencing. All the best. - Anas ^Talk? 15:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Agree on the lack of citations, but my main concern is the fluidity of the text. Some sections read more like a year-by-year list ("in 1894..., in 1895..." etc.) and need to be elaborated while condensing the paragraph structure (aviod 1-2 sentece paragraphs). -- Oaxaca dan 16:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Lead is too big 3-4 paragraphs max, and lack of references, only 1. M3tal H3ad 11:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.