Wikipedia:Featured article review/History of the Grand Canyon area/archive1

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The article was delisted by Nikkimaria via FACBot (talk) 5:16, 3 April 2015 (UTC) [1].

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History of the Grand Canyon area

Notified: Mav, Vsmith, WikiProject United States
WP:URFA nomination

Review commentary

As noted on the talk page, this article is currently the oldest FA promotion listed at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles and there are statements, using potential weasel words or quoting statistics, that should be cited. These are:

1. "The Havasupai and Hualapai are descended from the Cerbat and still live in the immediate area. The village of Supai in the western part of the current park has been occupied for centuries."
2. "The group was led by Hopi guides and, assuming they took the most likely route, must have reached the canyon at the South Rim, probably between today's Desert View and Moran Point."
3. "His report of an impassable barrier forestalled further visitation to the area for two hundred years."
4. "although there is little supporting documentation."
5. "that group successfully ran most of the canyon"
6. "Both the Powell and Dutton expeditions helped to increase interest in the canyon and surrounding region"
7. "Competition with the automobile forced the Santa Fe Railroad to cease operation of the Grand Canyon Railway in 1968 (only three passengers were on the last run). The railway was restored and service reintroduced in 1989, and it has since carried hundreds of passengers a day. Trains remained the preferred way to travel to the canyon until they were surpassed by the auto in the 1930s. By the early 1990s more than a million automobiles per year visited the park."
8. "only to sell it nine years later in order to start a long career as a Grand Canyon guide"
9. "The tourist flights over the canyon have also created a noise problem, so the number of flights over the park has been restricted."

There has been some attempt to add citations[2], but on conducting a spot check of one of these, I was unable to verify the article content[3]. DrKiernan (talk) 10:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

• Move to FARC, no progress. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:28, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

FARC commentary

The review section mostly concerned sourcing. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:16, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

• Delist. Unresolved issues detailed in the review section. DrKiernan (talk) 20:04, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
• Delist, unfortunately ... is Mav gone? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:48, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
• Mav edits only in spurts for several years now. I would hate to see one of the earliest Wikipedians leave but things change for us all. His work was my inspiration and if I had time I might make a great effort of this article and maybe someday I or others will but at this time maybe best to delist.--MONGO 04:06, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
• Closing note: This removal candidate has been delisted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please leave the {{featured article review}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:16, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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