Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Damen station (CTA Blue Line)/archive2

Suggestion

John M Wolfson in the best interest of getting real review of an article, I suggest that your opening statement is not optimal and will discourage active engagement. My suggestion, which you are of course free to ignore, is that since no one has yet responded to your opening statement, you completely remove it and start over, without the negativity. It's doing nothing to advance your case or the article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:58, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

• I'm not sure that's the major reason people aren't responding – there was low engagement of a similar article without it. I've also seen worse in the FACverse, and my thoughts on the matter referred to remain very much the same. Having that said, it seems in worse taste than I imagined, so I'll bowdlerize the salient words while leaving everything else intact. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 16:44, 20 April 2023 (UTC)