Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/PewDiePie/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) 30 April 2019 [1].

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PewDiePie

Nominator(s): WackyWikiWoo (talk) 06:00, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

This article is about Swedish Youtuber Felix Kjellberg, known by his online pseudonym PewDiePie, who held the position of the most-subscribed YouTube channel for almost six years, and is currently the second-most subscribed YouTube channel. This article is already a GA, and, from what I can tell, it also meets the criteria for FA. WackyWikiWoo (talk) 06:05, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Question I note that you haven't played a large role in developing the article ([2]) and there doesn't seem to have been a discussion on the article's talk page about nominating it for FAC. Do the editors most involved in this article believe that it currently meets the FA criteria? Nick-D (talk) 09:02, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

@Nick-D: Sorry, I haven’t nominated many articles for FA and didn’t realise this was a requirement. Should I remove the nomination for now? WackyWikiWoo (talk) 10:44, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I'd suggest withdrawal. A good path forwards would be to start a discussion on the article's talk page to propose a FA nomination, and only to return this to FAC if there's consensus there that the article is ready. Nick-D (talk) 10:52, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

@Nick-D: How do I withdraw it? Just remove the link from the nominations page and from the articles talk page?

@WackyWikiWoo: This @FAC coordinators: will summon the coords who will attend to the minor details  :) ——SerialNumber54129 11:31, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: So they’ll withdraw it? WackyWikiWoo (talk) 11:37, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

They will close the nomination soon after you request that they do so (or possibly earlier given the discussion here). Nick-D (talk) 11:38, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

@Nick-D: Sorry for the stream of questions, but how do I request them to do so? WackyWikiWoo (talk) 11:41, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Given that they've been pinged by Serial Number 54129 already, just post here that you'd like the nomination closed. It's not a bureaucratic process. As two editors have also posted to say that the article isn't ready for FAC at present, it's likely that this would also prompt a closure per the first para of the instructions at the top of WP:FAC. Nick-D (talk) 11:50, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose by default: the main contributor(s) is/are still active and the nom has played only a minor part (6.5%) in the article's creation to date. Also note MOS:LEAD issues. ——SerialNumber54129 10:17, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been withdrawn, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 11:50, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

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