The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.
Delist - This article is not up to modern standards. There are many issues, some of which I outlined on the talk page as linked above. Among the most problematic are the inadequate lead (a mere 5 sentences long) and the lack of any thread to tie the sections together into a cohesive narrative. Maralia (talk) 23:49, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]