Wikipedia:Featured article review/Alpha Phi Alpha/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 delisted by Nikkimaria via FACBot (talk) 5:01, 24 April 2015 (UTC) [1].

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Alpha Phi Alpha

Notified: Ccson, WP African diaspora, WP Fraternities and Sororities, WP Cornell

URFA nom

Review section

This is a 2006 promotion that has not been maintained to standards; see talk page notification from March 10. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

• Move to FARC-- the problems here are quite significant including original research, text not in citations given, and close paraphrasing bordering on plagiarism everywhere one looks. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:29, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

• Some sources are dubious, and unformatted/incomplete citations have been added. MOS issues of every kind can be found. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:14, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section include close paraphrasing, OR, verifiability, referencing, and MOS. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:29, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• Delist. Unsourced statements, including "Arguably..."; unreliable sources; weasel-words; redundant prose, such as "in the year 1903". DrKiernan (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
• Delist - Some examples of outstanding issues:
  • The article veers back and forth between “black”, “African-American”, and “Black”, with no apparent correlation to the terminology used in the sources.
  • Some of the most basic facts do not seem to be accurate. The fraternity’s own website claims 706 chapters, yet our lead says more than 730 and our infobox says 800+! Likewise, the frat’s website claims 200,000 total members initiated since founding, yet our article says “over 290,000” in both the lead and the infobox. The lead indicates active chapters in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia, yet the only active chapters outside the US, as shown on the frat’s website, are in Puerto Rico and the UK.
  • There are three ‘citation needed’ tags and two ‘not in citation given’ tags.
  • An image review is needed. Two of them—File:Cornell Arts Quad 1919.jpg and File:Alphafstconvent.jpg—are missing proper author information, and neither has a proper source listed either, so one can’t really conclude that they are PD even though they’re old.
  • Comprehensiveness issues: “The Seven Jewels” appellation is mentioned in the lead but not anywhere in the article body. It is also not cited anywhere. The article later lists the 7 founders, but only wikilinks to two of them despite four of them having existing articles—and the list of 7 is followed by a sentence about Jones that simply does not parse.
  • Dated information: The information in the National programs section is very much at odds with the information the frat’s website provides under the same title.

Quite a bit of work is needed to bring this up to current FA standards. Maralia (talk) 16:40, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

• Delist. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
• 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. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:01, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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