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Yosemite National Park

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Notified: Mav, Hike395, Pistongrinder, SandyGeorgia, Brian W. Schaller, Tadenham, D.Nino, WP Protected areas, WP California, WP World Heritage Sites, WP USA, WP USA History, WP Climbing noticed in 2020

Review section

A 2005 promotion kept at FAR in 2007, this one has not aged well. There's a couple unreliable sources (history.com is considered unreliable at WP:RSP, and IMDB is user-generated), and there's some uncited text, mainly in the activities section. Also some datedness issues - the Meadow Fire is only mentioned in an image caption, despite there being a section for wildfires, and the management issues section largely uses older sources and could use a revamp to get more up-to-date management stuff. Hog Farm _Talk 07:25, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, but I only figure in the stats because of considerable MOS and citation cleanup work I did when this article was at FAR years ago. I am too old for that kind of work now (that I last did in 2008 :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:08, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

• Move to FARC, no engagement, two edits since FAR nomination in spite of talk notices dating back a year. This article was originally featured before inline citations were required, and at a time when it was considered acceptable to lift text extensively from public domain sources, without citation or quotation or attribution. It was reviewed in 2007 as part of the first WP:URFA. I put hundreds of edits into adding citations from public domain sources which, at that time, were quoted verbatim (many still are, but now with correct attribution templates). Almost none of that information has been updated, and we can see by looking at one example how much of a rewrite would be needed:
  • Current version. "Taken together, the park's varied habitats support over 250 species of vertebrates, which include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals." Cited to a National Park Service page that no longer exists, but found at an 2007 archive.org page.
  • Update needed. The NPS website for Yosemite has been completely restructured and rewritten, and what was once on one page is now on dozens. From https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm, just one entry (on birds) says "An astounding 262 species of birds have been documented in Yosemite, including 165 resident and migratory species."

The 262 species of birds alone shows how far outdated the 250 species of animals all together is. The article would need a significant rewrite, and FA content taken verbatim from public domain websites is not viewed as favorably as it was before 2008, when this article was written. It is sad that we may lose them, but many of our old National Park articles have the same issue. This kind of article requires constant updating, and that is no longer happening. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:27, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

• Move to FARC - Minimal engagement. Hog Farm _Talk 15:41, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and currency. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:53, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

• Delist. Tagged for unsourced statements, unreliable references, in need of additional references, vague or ambiguous time and in need of updating. DrKay (talk) 13:44, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delist, not a whole lot happening, needs a fair bit of work. Hog Farm _Talk 20:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
• Delist, most unfortunate, but an article of this nature requires at least annual updating, yet much of the sourcing dates to its last FAR, when I worked my tail off to update the citations. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:38, 9 December 2021 (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) 03:28, 11 December 2021 (UTC)