Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harry Potter (character)/archive 1

Nominator(s): Timothyhouse1 ^(talk)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because I believe it meets the criteria and it meets the same standard. Timothyhouse1 (talk) 09:44, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why use Harry? Why not Potter?
The lead must be two to three paragraphs per WP:LEAD.
I think this article needs more sourcing
- especially those quoted phrases "and derogatively referred to as a "Mudblood"."
- The line "In real life, Harry's iconoclastic appearance has become cult." under the section In popular culture needs ref.
- According to Rowling, Harry's favourite book is Quidditch Through the Ages, an actual book that Rowling wrote (under the pseudonym Kennilworthy Whisp) for the Comic Relief charity.
A lot of MoS breaches
- "Harry's spiritual ancestor." and "flawed and mortal." the period must be outside the quotation marks.
- Must use nbsp for ellipsis and others throughout "The basic idea [is that] Harry ... didn't know he was a wizard ... and so then I kind of worked backwards from that position to find out how that could be, that he wouldn't know what he was...
- This one needs space using nbsp "...sickened...by the use to which Draco was now being put by Voldemort""
- Unlike common terms like child, mentor, memory, and perception. I unlinked some.
I suggest using the {{cite web}} and {{cite news}} templates for the references.
Ref 38 (a wikipedia article) isn't reliable per WP:RS.

Note: the main contributors to this article, of whom Timothyhouse1 is not one, have not yet been notified of this FAC. While anyone is free to bring a FAC, I believe there is precedent for removing a FAC listing if the primary contributor doesn't feel it's ready. I've left a note on Timothy's talk to this effect, so maybe we should hold off on comments or votes until he gets back to us. Steve ^{T • C} 12:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose
Lead needs to be expanded to at least two paragraphs.
MoS breaches, such as spaced emdashes.
Citation needed tag in the In popular culture section.
References need to be formatted correctly; some are barelinks, while others are quite messily formatted. Some lack publisher and author information, as well.

Comment: "The books cover seven years in the life of the lonely orphan..." Not really. They cover way more than seven years. They go back to when Voldemort was a boy, his parents as children, himself in the future etc. And describing him as a lonely orphan is probably correct as far as the first chapter or so of the first book is concerned, but he's hardly lonely from then on. – How do you turn this on (talk) 17:04, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]