Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Vampire lifestyle/archive1

Vampire Lifestyle

I am listing this article here because it appears to be complete, and has references and considerable collaboration which has made it quite good (in my opinion). Therefore I have listed it on peer review and am now nominating it for featured status. I guess this counts as a self-nomination. I think it would be good because it is on a very non-conventional topic, as well. I realise that there are no images, but there are truly no appropriate ones (we tried). Falcon 05:48, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

• Object. This article looks like it was written by a practitioner of the vampire lifestyle, and is too POV to be a FA. Whig 06:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• object 1) cite your sources in a References section. 2) There are no images. 3) The writing seems a little repetitive to me, especially in the lead section. 4) I'd like to see more discussion on the origins of this subculture; can it be traced to a specific person or group? How far back do we have references mentioning such a lifestyle? slambo 11:05, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Object. slambo above acurately summarizes the problems with this article. Phils 16:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Send to Peer Review due to the above comments. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 18:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Although I don't object to this being sent back to peer review, I would question why nobody made these comments there when it was up there. Thank you all for the input, though. Falcon 16:24, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• object per above. --Briangotts 02:58, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Object per slambo and Whig. - Jersyko talk 01:22, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Object per all above. I have a history of trying to improve the page in question. The nominator (and a like minded individual) blocked my efforts with highly POV actions and personal attacks. I finally had to remove it from my watchlist to avoid seeing how awful it was and the continuous nonsense Falcon pulled. The idea that it would be a featured article is absolutely absurd. Now that there are additional editors pointing out how much the article needs to be improved, perhaps it finally will get done. DreamGuy 23:49, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

"Some self-styled vampires claim that, in order to replenish their vampiric energy, they will sometimes feed on the blood of other humans, but some will also feed on other things such as themselves, animals, plants and the elements" --- No, It is looked down upon HEAVILY to "feed" from onesself.