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

The article was removed 08:56, 13 February 2008.

Notified PZFUN, John, FayssalF, WikiProject Africa, WikiProject Countries, WikiProject South Africa

There are many tags for "citation needed" need to be fixed. One can easily detect that many paragraphs or even sections don't have any source to verify or support the facts. References and reading basiclly don't follow the correct format. Coloane (talk) 00:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, references are a problem. Prose size currently stands at 55kb while there are only 3kb of references per Dr. pda script. As a consequences there are notable gaps in the article's sourcing. For instance in the "History" section there's only two inline citations thus, several potentially controversial statements lack sources. If anybody is up for improving this article it might also be a good idea to reduce its extension, 55kb is a lot of text. Useful guidelines on what needs to be in country articles and what can be moved to subarticles can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries#Structure. --Victor12 (talk) 01:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested FA criteria concerns are references (1c) and formatting (2). Marskell (talk) 15:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remove:

• Inadequate WP:LEAD, choppy, one-sentence paras.
• Uncited history section.
• Uncited data in Government and politics.
• Uncited hard data in geography, hyphens there which should be minus signs.
• WP:MOS#Captions, punctuation on sentence fragments vs. full sentences.
• Mixed citation style, inline URLs for citations.
• Moving on, uncited hard data everywhere I look.
• Cite needed tags.
• Captions too long, WP:MOS#Captions
• Unformatted, incomplete citations.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:38, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remove: Almost a month and a half after this article was put up for FAR no major work has been done. As nobody seems interested in improving this article I think there is no point in keeping it here much longer. --Victor12 (talk) 15:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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