Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chocolate/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 21:28, 30 August 2007.

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Chocolate

• Support Conforms to all of the criteria, is well written, provides ample amounts of information without rambling, and has great images as well. Jedibob5 14:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
• Comment Half the history section consists of the debate over the etymology of the word "chocolate" and there are only two very short paragraphs of how chocolate in the Old World. There is no mention about the development of conching and other processes that have made large scale production of cocoa solids possible. There's also no mention of chocolate being one of the luxury drinks of the nobility in early modern Europe and how it preceded coffee as one of the common non-alcoholic stimulant breakfast drink. Peter ^Isotalo 07:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
• OpposeSeveral sections has no inline sitations, it has several stubby sections that should either be removed or merged with other sections and it has external jumps that should be converted to proper refs. The tempering section is too long and reads more like a textbook than an encyclopedia article. Also the TOC does not make sense. How are sections such as tempering and storing a subsection of Bean?--Peter Andersen 16:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose per a general shortage of inline citations for some potentially controversial facts, mostly shown through the extensive existence of fact tags. VanTucky ^(talk) 19:20, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Just about all the fact tags were added by a single editor, seemingly at random, and almost none of the facts are particularly controversial. Peter ^Isotalo 07:07, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
• Comment The See Also section should consist of terms that are not already linked in the body of the article. I'm not convinced of the relevance of the first External Link (Original Chocolate Drink Recipe). 69.202.45.153 15:33, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose due to comprehensiveness issues. The history section effectively ends in the pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and lacks information on the historical events allowing chocolate to be produced and consumed in a non-liquid form. Regional omissions are also present with the article mentioning the current U.S. dispute over use of fats other than cocoa butter in the manufacture of chocolate but omitting information on how a similar dispute in the EU was resolved. The article also shows organizational issues as detailed above along with a need to convert embedded HTML links into full citations. --Allen3 ^talk 19:22, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.