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Result: Delist. While the finer points of MoS are not all GA requirements, this article doesn't even meet WP:LEAD, which is. Geometry guy 16:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1b: Too many one/two sentence paragraphs, inconsistent use of inverted commas (" and ' throughout the article), units like kilowatt are expressed in an abbreviated form (kW). There is also inconstant use of metric and imperial measurements. For example, in the "2007 onwards - The Mk II MINI" section the metric unit kilowatt is used. Under the section "Convertible" the imperial unit horsepower is used instead. Since the car is European, imperial units should be spelled out first, followed by the imperial unit in parentheses. Many of the headings also violate WP:MoS requirements stating that "headings generally should not repeat the title of the article".

2 a and b: There are way too many unsourced statements throughout the article (17 references all together).

There are many more issues, here is a list generated by a semi-automatic javascript program:

  • Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 10 litres, use 10 litres, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 10 litres.[?]
  • Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), please spell out source units of measurements in text; for example, the Moon is 380,000 kilometres (240,000 mi) from Earth.[?] Specifically, an example is 260 Nm.
  • Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, if January 15, 2006 appeared in the article, link it as January 15, 2006.[?]
  • Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with articles ('the', 'a(n)'). For example, if there was a section called ==The Biography==, it should be changed to ==Biography==.[?]
  • Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.[?]
  • There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view.
    • it has been
    • might be weasel words, and should be provided with proper citations (if they already do, or are not weasel terms, please strike this comment).[?]
  • Please make the spelling of English words consistent with either American or British spelling, depending upon the subject of the article. Examples include: aluminium (B) (American: aluminum), metre (B) (American: meter), fibre (B) (American: fiber), realize (A) (British: realise), criticize (A) (British: criticise), criticise (B) (American: criticize), moult (B) (American: molt), programme (B) (American: program ).
  • Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
    • Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
  • The script has spotted the following contractions: don't, if these are outside of quotations, they should be expanded.

OSX (talk • contributions) 05:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment. I agree that the article has numerous MoS-related problems -- for example, 1st generation rather than first generation. There's also at least one citation tag. Unless the criteria 1 and 2 concerns are quickly addressed then the article should be de-listed. Majoreditor (talk) 16:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist. Advertising-like (or at least very positive) tone; the article is probably not very up-to-date (I removed some text along the lines of "in 2007 a model will be released"). ; the ongoing use of capital letters in the title and to emphasize the brand name throughout suggests a fansite, not an encyclopedia article, and contravenes MOS:TM and WP:CAPS. ProhibitOnions (T) 13:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist. Needs more references.--andreasegde (talk) 15:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delist. The two sentence lead cannot possibly be an adequate summary of this article. Geometry guy 16:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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