Wikipedia:Featured article review/Battle of Badr/archive1

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 removed by User:Dana boomer 14:35, 27 September 2013 [1].

Battle of Badr[edit]

Review commentary[edit]

Notified: WP:WikiProject Islam, user:Palm dogg

I am nominating this featured article for review because this article has a lot of unaddressed citation needed tags, thus failing criterion 1c. I brought this issue up at the article's talk page weeks ago, got no response, and nothing was fixed.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 13:54, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was the primary author up until this became a featured article in February 2006, then got tired of having to constantly revert edits. I haven't monitored it since late 2007. I know this was written before FA standards were significantly tightened up, but would request that any review of it also look at these two versions before any downgrade. If all it needs is a simple clean-up, let me know and I'll be happy to go through and do that. Keep me posted. Palm_Dogg (talk) 15:46, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The current version does seem rather sparse in term of references. Hchc2009 (talk) 18:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd support delisting this on the grounds there aren't enough references. Personally I wouldn't pass this at GA either with the current state of references. ★★Retro Lord ★★ 19:13, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think this article suffers from a lack of serious military history sources. Basically, unless you're willing to believe the supernatural explanation of the archangels fighting on the Muslim side, there's little in the article explaining how the Muhammad's followers overpowered a force three times larger. Alas, I don't think more critical sources are likely to be found because all that remains in the historical record is the victor's account. One source [2] suggests the Meccans did not have much stomach for a fight that day. Another [3] says the attacking Meccans ran into a sandstorm. But there's little to back up any of these. Someone not using his real name (talk) 18:31, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FARC commentary[edit]

Featured article criteria mentioned in the review section are mainly those related to sourcing. Dana boomer (talk) 21:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delist. Uncleared tags. DrKiernan (talk) 19:30, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist - GamerPro64 01:36, 22 September 2013 (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. Dana boomer (talk) 19:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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