Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2000s European sovereign debt crisis timeline/archive1

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

The list was not promoted by Giants2008 00:22, 29 October 2011 [1].

2000s European sovereign debt crisis timeline[edit]

Featured list candidates/2000s European sovereign debt crisis timeline/archive1

Nominator(s): – Plarem ^{(User talk contribs)} 14:10, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel that the article features professional standards of writing, it has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria, it comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items, in length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article, it is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities, it complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages, it makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked, it has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions, non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly and It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process. – Plarem ^{(User talk contribs)} 14:10, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose several in-line citations are missing, especially in the 2011 section; this is a major issue. Inconsistency ("€4.8 bn" or "€5bn"? What is "bn"?), incomplete sentences/ellipses ("Protests, yearly taking place for the day, this year add "the proposed austerity measures", in Athens."), some refs don't use the {{cite web}}/{{cite news}} templates, etc. You said it passes MOS; how you explain these edits I made?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_Hey ^{it's me} 21:09, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose several major issues with the article, the most severe being the lack of inline references in parts of the list. I am also concerned that the issue is by no means over and that the list would be inherently unstable. Other issues include:
- Images should all be on the right side to avoid messing up the page. Images are being placed behind text in the references section and are being sandwiched elsewhere. While images of central political figures and demonstrations are fine, including various logos and banknotes gives a messy look.

Done, deleted logos and banknotes, kept political figures and demonstrations. – Plarem ^{(User talk contribs)} 10:19, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- The prose needs clean-up. For instance, there is a difference between a hyphen and a minus sign. Avoid use of "Mr", just use the surname; titles in front of names are capitalized. Avoid weasel words, such as "huge". In general the text is written with tabloid-slanted language (fear, speculations, hopes, etc), which are not encyclopedic terms. Acronyms need to be spelled out at first-time use. Arsenikk ^(talk) 10:47, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I would expect to see references for each of the events in this timeline. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:32, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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