Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/White Rose

White Rose

Article is no longer a featured article.

How the hell did this pass? [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/^talk]] 02:07, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

• Remove. I have checked the nomination archives, I can't find the nomination anywhere so I assume the tag was added by mistake. I have contacted Mav, who added the template, to ask if it was a mistake or perhaps the nomination got lost. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 07:42, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
  • Response: I was simply adding the message to each article that was already listed as an FA - there was no editorial decision on my part. Many of those listed items at that time did not go through any process other than somebody adding them and nobody removing them. -- mav 07:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 07:57, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
• Remove - see the talk page - quite a few articles that became "featured" on 15 March, like this one, are pretty poor - for example, Dreyfus affair, Montparnasse, Villain. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:28, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Remove. And yes, please list those too, ALoan. - Taxman 13:33, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
• Remove--Evil Monkey 20:37, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Very nice account of a very important group. Size is not everything, gentleman. muriel@pt 08:10, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • The article is well written, but is it comprehensive? The German version has a nicer image (from which our image seems to be a poor copy of a small part) and the text of the German version could help to round ours out (my German is not up to the task). Some additional off-line research and paper references could help. Perhaps it really needs a good peer review? -- ALoan (Talk) 13:41, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • I uploaded the photo to commons and to this article. I agree it could be improved. My german is pretty good but i'm afraid the topic really gets to my nerves. I'm tired of hearing all the time germans did this and that in WW2 by people who cant tell the difference between a german and a nazi. This article shows that germans were not only blood thirsty fascist murderers. muriel@pt 14:16, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Moreover, i find commentaries like How the hell did this pass? extremely irritating. And it was not added by mistake. This was featured in a time when the above gentlemen where probably not in wikipedia. I nominated it, actually. muriel@pt 14:20, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • Neutrality probably did not mean to offend. This article simply comes nowhere close to the level of quality that very many articles coming through WP:FAC do. If you have the ability, please improve it significantly and let us know. If it improves a lot, people will change their votes quickly. - Taxman 02:43, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)