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The article was kept 18:36, 10 February 2008.

Geography of Ireland

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Review commentary

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland, Portal:Ireland, Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography notified, the top 3 editors (Filiocht, Zoney, Rparle) are MIA or not active. feydey (talk) 20:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fails FACs 1c and 2c, having basically 0 sources. Our standards have changed a lot since 2004. I am a little embarrassed to put an {{unreferenced}} tag on a featured article. This one needs a lot of work. feydey (talk) 20:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's my fault, I didn't update the time on the notifications. DrKiernan (talk) 16:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem DrK. There is a lot to do but most of it should be available online. Hopefully there is someone else, besides me, interested in keeping the Irish FAs alive. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 17:14, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mainly this is just a victim of the current fad for inline citations. Inline citations shouldn't be an absolute requirement, except for possibly controversial statements that might be challenged. Doesn't WP:CITE in fact say that, despite inline-cite proponents even having a template to plonk on articles lacking inline cites? There are plenty of references in this article. It's this kind of nonsense that makes Wikipedia an unpleasant place these days. zoney ♣ talk 16:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FARC commentary

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Suggested FA criteria concerns are references (1c) and their formatting (2c). Marskell (talk) 18:06, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think (2c) is an issue now (have you any examples? - they all look good to me) and I, and possibly some others, are working on (1c). ww2censor (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixes needed:

  • Incorrect bolding/linking in the first sentence, see WP:LEAD and WP:MOSBOLD.
  • WP:MOS#Captions, punctuation on full sentences, not on sentence fragments.
  • Inconsistent conversions, example: 1,041 m (3,414 ft) high,[1][15] is in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, a range of glacier-carved sandstone mountains in County Kerry, in the south-west of the island. The mountains are not high – only three peaks are over 1000 m[16] and another 457 exceed 500 m.[17]
  • The table in Climate is very hard to read; can it be made into a table like in other geography articles (search WP:FA until you find one you like).
  • Missing publication date (I think it's in the URL), and incorrect italics: Deegan, Gordon. "Blasting threatens future of stalactite". Irish Examiner, Retrieved on January 23, 2008.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:38, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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