Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bing Crosby/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 14:56, 29 December 2015 [1].

Bing Crosby

Nominator(s): (Utzdman55 (talk) 02:16, 29 December 2015 (UTC))[reply]

This article is about the American popular singer and icon Bing Crosby. As it turns out, the guy that comes out every year and sings "White Christmas" was a very complex, colorful, detailed and talented artist. The Wikipedia article covers his full life extensively and very very well. It meets all of the Featured article criteria and I believe it should be featured. (Utzdman55 (talk) 02:16, 29 December 2015 (UTC))[reply]

• Epic Oppose. I don't know how well-written this article is yet, but only with a quick scan through, I'm seeing several poorly-formatted references and uncited statements (A "needs additional citations" tag labeled in the "Role in early tape recording" section should be a good enough sign of the latter problem). Definitely far from ready to be a featured article on that principal alone. Please read the FA criteria before your nominate. To be honest, I probably should've kept my opinion of this nomination short with "Citation 34 is basically a link to another Wikipedia article, 'nuff said". 和DITOREtails 06:02, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose and request withdrawal, largely for the reasons indicated above. This is a level-4 vital article. It doesn't appear to have undergone any prior review stage, and frankly looks like a fairly early draft: badly under-referenced (I've added some refimprove tags), proliferation of short paragraphs, unformatted citations, lack of distinction between encyclopaedic content and trivia – the list goes on. Needs much basic work, followed by a peer review, before any renomination here. Brianboulton (talk) 11:50, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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