The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 00:26, 31 January 2009 [1].
I'm nominating this article for featured article because I've listed this article for featured article status because It has already been passed for Good article status and it looks as if it's good enough to be featured. Ukabia ( talk) 23:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Oppose - given the large numbers of questionable sources, as well as concerns that, given the number of sources that have google books links to snippets but don't give page numbers, that most of the sources have only been consulted in snippet view, which can lead to problems with not seeing the full context of the work.
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Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960: 1900 - 1960 (illustrated ed.). Routledge. p. 145.
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Oppose on criterion 3
Hopefully these issues can be resolved quickly. Awadewit ( talk) 22:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Regretful oppose. Forget the niceties of the "MoS"; this has a long way to go. I've just gone through the introduction; there was a lot amiss even there. I then noticed that the previous edit (without summary and by some IP) had made the single change of "3000" to "6000", thus forming the sentence According to several sources, from 6000 BC to 500 AD, the Igbo people evolved over a long period in Igboland through waves of migrations. Quite aside from the question of 6000 versus 3000, the single source adduced (which doesn't itself cite any source) says nothing about waves of migrations, or indeed anything whatever about what happened between c. 3000 BC and c. AD 850. Which is hardly surprising because this source is a brief chronology to accompany a study guide for a novel. WP disapproves of tertiary sources; this looks like, oh, let's call it a quaternary source (something that the author probably derived from tertiary sources); it doesn't say what it's claimed to say, it is singular, not plural as implied; and it's summarized in a sentence that points out that 2,500 (or 5,500) years is "a long period". The sourcing is rough, the writing is rough, the whole thing is rough. It's an honorable draft that needs a lot more "person-hours" before it can be a featurable article. Morenoodles ( talk) 10:11, 28 January 2009 (UTC) reply
The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 00:26, 31 January 2009 [1].
I'm nominating this article for featured article because I've listed this article for featured article status because It has already been passed for Good article status and it looks as if it's good enough to be featured. Ukabia ( talk) 23:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Oppose - given the large numbers of questionable sources, as well as concerns that, given the number of sources that have google books links to snippets but don't give page numbers, that most of the sources have only been consulted in snippet view, which can lead to problems with not seeing the full context of the work.
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help){{
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link), Chuku, Gloria (2005).
Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960: 1900 - 1960 (illustrated ed.). Routledge. p. 145.
ISBN
0-415-97210-8.{{
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help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (
link)Comment - The articles references can be easily improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.19.66 ( talk) 14:09, 22 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Oppose on criterion 3
Hopefully these issues can be resolved quickly. Awadewit ( talk) 22:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC) reply
Regretful oppose. Forget the niceties of the "MoS"; this has a long way to go. I've just gone through the introduction; there was a lot amiss even there. I then noticed that the previous edit (without summary and by some IP) had made the single change of "3000" to "6000", thus forming the sentence According to several sources, from 6000 BC to 500 AD, the Igbo people evolved over a long period in Igboland through waves of migrations. Quite aside from the question of 6000 versus 3000, the single source adduced (which doesn't itself cite any source) says nothing about waves of migrations, or indeed anything whatever about what happened between c. 3000 BC and c. AD 850. Which is hardly surprising because this source is a brief chronology to accompany a study guide for a novel. WP disapproves of tertiary sources; this looks like, oh, let's call it a quaternary source (something that the author probably derived from tertiary sources); it doesn't say what it's claimed to say, it is singular, not plural as implied; and it's summarized in a sentence that points out that 2,500 (or 5,500) years is "a long period". The sourcing is rough, the writing is rough, the whole thing is rough. It's an honorable draft that needs a lot more "person-hours" before it can be a featurable article. Morenoodles ( talk) 10:11, 28 January 2009 (UTC) reply