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 Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 1 February 2025 [1].

Nominator(s): jolielover♥talk 13:31, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the British-Irish pop boy band "One Direction", which is one of the best selling boy groups of all time. I have significantly improved on the article and I hope it will achieve FA status by the band's 15th anniversary coming up in July of this year. This is my first FA nomination, am open to any kind of improvement for this article. I also want to say, Earwig has flagged high levels of copyright violations in the article, but from looking at some of the links it is mostly things like quotations, names, awards etc, things that can not be paraphrased. Please do let me know if there is legitimate close paraphrasing and I will fix that. Thank you! jolielover♥talk 13:31, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Drive-by comment

• From a quick look, it looks like the table of the band's performances on The X Factor is completely unsourced. I'm not too familiar with the precedent in the case of realty TV show results, but I'd imagine that there should probably be *something*, even if it's just a primary source-citation of the episodes themselves. Leafy46 (talk) 02:43, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Noted, I will work on this. jolielover♥talk 07:42, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Leafy46: I have added some citations, but am struggling to find reliable ones for the Bootcamp section. jolielover♥talk 13:42, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:FACR 1c, 2c. There is a very inconsistent referencing style with some including publisher and others not, some publications not even listed, inconsistencies in title case, some sources cited that are not high-quality like US Weekly, BuzzFeed, etc. I also find it hard to believe that not one academic source could be cited. There are two paragraphs at doi:10.1017/S0261143016000635 analyzing their time on The X Factor, for example. Multiple are used at Larries, but none could be brought over to the main article? Heartfox (talk) 08:27, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Heartfox: Hi there, I have worked on the issues you have brought up. Brought about a consistent referencing style and swapped out some more unreliable sources. I have also inserted some academic sources. I hope it is fine now. jolielover♥talk 13:41, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Heartfox: @Leafy46: I have addressed the issues brought up. The X Factor results section is now fully cited, and I removed information I failed to find a source for. I have brought about a consistent referencing style and resolved the other issues mentioned above; removed and swapped out unreliable sources (note: I can not find US Weekly on the Perennial sources list, if it is there please let me know. Regardless, the context is that they reported on the hiatus becoming a permanent split first, which I think allows for this source to be used). I have also brought in some academic sources and books. I just want to say, the sources in the Larries article obviously talks about - well, Larries - and they often just mention One Direction very briefly, like "it was this boy band from 2010 to 2015" I do not think such sources are necessary for the sake of having more sources. Thank you, and I hope for more advice and feedback to improving this article to FA status. jolielover♥talk 12:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Aside from the academic source Heartfox mentioned above (which I see still hasn't been added to the article yet), there is also a detailed piece Repetitions of Desire on 1D's female fandom, which could be worth exploring.

I don't think the prose is fully up to scratch yet and needs a thorough copy-editing. Some examples:

• "Propelled to global success by social media,[1][2][3] One Direction's five albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014) and Made in the A.M. (2015), topped charts in several countries" (The phrase "Propelled to global success by social media" is intended to describe One Direction, but as the sentence is structured, it makes it seem like their albums were propelled to global success instead.)
• "Following Payne's death on 16 October 2024,[171] Malik, Styles, Tomlinson, and Horan released a joint statement paying tribute to him." The introduction of Payne's death feels somewhat abrupt and disconnected from the preceding paragraph.
• The third paragraph of the Artistry section feels rather disjointed from the structured album reviews in the previous two paragraphs. While the first two paragraphs focus on analyzing Up All Night and Take Me Home, this paragraph suddenly shifts to discussing their live vocal abilities, making the transition feel abrupt. To make things worse, the next paragraph shifts back to discussing their albums.

Oppose on 1a and 1c criteria. The article also doesn't use any academic source although at least two exist. I recommend that you withdraw the nomination, start a peer review and seek an FAC mentor as a first-time nominator. FrB.TG (talk) 23:01, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems clear that this is not going to achieve a consensus to promote without considerable work, so I am going to archive to allow this to take place. The usual two-week hiatus will apply and I would commend FrB.TG's advice to you; a visit to GoCE may also help. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:21, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, 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. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:22, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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