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 not promoted by GrahamColm 17:06, 9 December 2012 [1].

Jainism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Nominator(s): Rahuljain2307 (talk) 06:14, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because I believe the article meets with all the criteria. Significant amount of work has been done on this article and it can now be promoted as featured article. I am willing to address any issue that might be brought up at the earliest possible time. Rahuljain2307 (talk) 05:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose from Jim I have a soft spot for Jainism since being able to talk about it at interview got me an unconditional university place to read chemistry(!) many years ago. I hadn't realised that the university had a major theology department. Unfortunately the referencing is a total mess. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:52, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Several refs lack full details, eg ref 6 has no year, isbn or publisher, several web-only refs do not give one or more of the work, publisher or retrieval date.
• Refs have different orders of first and surnames, some have titles (Dr, Mrs) most don't, some have authors at beginning, some don't
• You give short form references like " Laidlaw p. 169.", but the lack of a cited texts section makes it difficult to find the actual source book.
• Some names are fully capitalised, and there are bare urls in the refs
• Lack of formatting means with something like "Thus Spake Lord Mahavir, Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai" there is no distinction between title, publication, or location.
• Your refs are mixture of references and commentary notes

Basically, the references have no detectable consistency of presentation, and are often inadequate. If you aren't confident about formatting refs, use the templates that do it for you.

• Oppose: I'm sorry, but this article (as mentioned by Jim) is not up to scratch for FA. Firstly the references, of which formatting is not FA standard, and things like refs 95 and 96 should be classed as the same. Moreover there appears to be some Original research, or at least some unsourced facts: Jainism recommends conquering anger by forgiveness, pride (ego) by humility, deceit by straight-forwardness, and greed by contentment. (here). Sorry, but it would definitely be beneficial to first get a peer review and then putting it at the good article nominations. JZCL 17:08, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose per previous commentary, and suggest withdrawing the nomination here and requesting a peer review. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:22, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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