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Good articleMzoli's has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
September 17, 2007Articles for deletionKept
December 29, 2007Good article nomineeListed
Did You KnowA fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 22, 2007.
Current status: Good article
News This page has been mentioned by the press by a media organization. The mention is in:
  • David Sarno (30 September 2007). "Wikipedia wars erupt". Los Angeles Times.
  • Konrad Lischka (30 September 2007). "Wikipedia-Gründer darf nicht mitschreiben". Spiegel Online (German).
  • Oriane Raffin (1 October 2007). "Une note censurée du créateur de Wikipédia crée la polémique sur l'encyclopédie". Le Monde online (French)
  • "Wikipedia: an online encyclopedia torn apart". The Daily Telegraph. 11 October 2007.
  • Ian Douglas (13 October 2007). "Delete generation rips encyclopedia apart". The Age.
  • Nicholson Baker (10 April 2008). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia [1]". The Guardian.. {{cite news}}: External link in |publisher= (help); line feed character in |publisher= at position 29 (help)

GA Delisting

After considering this article and the GA criteria I am prepared to delist this article from GA status on the basis of GA Criterion #3. It is not broad enough and without references it would be very short. I don't believe this article should be promoted because it got so much media coverage. So if there are no objections after a couple of days I'll be delisting the article. Littleteddy... keep me in a good mood 12:29, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When you say it's not broad enough, according to the good article criteria, I presume you mean that it does not address the major aspects of its topic, right? That criterion, as I read it, should not be used merely to discourage articles with appropriate coverage of specialized topics. So which major aspects of this topic do you feel are not addressed? —David Eppstein (talk) 15:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry Littleteddy, but "not enough bytes" isn't a valid reason to delist. How does it not meet #3? dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 05:49, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
My first concern was that there's no measure of popularity. How much does Mzoli's earn per year? How many patrons are there in a year/month/week? Littleteddy... keep me in a good mood 11:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Mzoli's, in western terms, probably does not earn a lot. On a weekend, it might serve 1500 or more patrons. It is unique in Gugulethu. I don't care about its GA status. Wizzy 12:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Following the criteria to the letter could mean delisting on the sole basis of this, because a whole chunk of stuff was removed two weeks ago. Littleteddy... keep me in a good mood 11:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, what? How could that merit a delisting? dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 07:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have any references for that? Am I getting FA and GA mixed up or is it true that the article must be stable? I'm sorry :) Littleteddy... keep me in a good mood 11:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]