Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sports PNF/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 15:17, 8 May 2008.

[edit] Sports PNF

I'm nominating this article for featured article because...Self-nominatorChuck (talk) 11:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose. Currently tagged for a merger and not a single internal link. Please check out What is a featured article? if you haven't already. Among other problems, the article is not well written (poor prose, contractions used, contains a "conclusion" section), it only uses one source, and the diagrams (while appreciated) are of low quality.-Wafulz (talk) 12:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose—Wafulz has given a good list of improvements needed, so I won't add too much more. I would suggest you withdraw the FAC for now, resolve the proposed merge, find additional sources, and either submit the article Wikipedia:Peer review or find interested editors who can help you improve the article. Pagrashtak 14:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose - can this be closed early, as this article is FAR from being of any acceptable standard, let alone featured article. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 15:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Oppose - The other reviewers are right. I would like to see a better reason for nominating an article than "because". Also, any article that hasn't been rated at all will likely be a poor FAC. Listen to Pagrashtak and put it up for peer review. It needs a ton of work to even be a Good article. Giants2008 (talk) 17:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
• Strong oppose - no good images (we have got possible copyviols!!), to wikify. (-.-') --Mojska 666 – Leave your message here 11:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• yeah, I fear those "sketches" might be tracings of actual images from the (sole) book used as a reference. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 12:41, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose - The article is less than two weeks old. As mentioned, no internal link, a single source. It's apparent this article needs more work before being considered. --Porqin (talk) 16:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
• Strong oppose I don't know what else I can say about it that hasn't already been said. No wikilinks, relies upon a single source, written more like a manual than an article... and those photos of a guy standing in his laundry room??? I know we're not supposed to judge an article based on the quality of the photos but sheesh... those are terrible, no offense. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 09:39, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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