Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Antananarivo/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 Graham Beards via FACBot (talk) 08:50, 5 December 2014 (UTC) [1].

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Antananarivo

Nominator(s): Lemurbaby (talk) 01:18, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

This article is about Antananarivo, the capital and largest city of Madagascar. This is a Level 4 Vital Article, and one of only three Madagascar related vital articles, with the other two - Madagascar and Rainilaiarivony - already at FA level. It reached GA and underwent a copy edit in September. Thanking you in advance for your feedback. Lemurbaby (talk) 01:18, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Image check - all OK copyright-wise (just a few minor nitpicks and questions)

• File:Lake_Anosy,_Central_Antananarivo,_Capital_of_Madagascar,_Photo_by_Sascha_Grabow.jpg - incomplete EXIF-data, but AGF after checking upload history - OK.
• Is the coat of arms correct and could you add a source for its design in the image information?
• Map includes source data - OK.
• File:Antananarivo_Madagascar_old_city_gate.JPG - short caption could use a bit more info (f.e. in which part of the city? in which direction? approx. date of creation?)
• File:Beautiful_jacaranda_Antananarivo_Madagascar.jpg - link "Jacarandas"
• File:Madagascar_senate.JPG - short caption (f.e. could we add, when it was built or since when it serves as senate building?)
• 2 Flickr images, no signs of problems or Flickr-washing - OK.
• File:Antananarivo_Madagascar_people_reading_news.JPG - any better image available to illustrate this section? This one shows just a few people reading newspaper, not really news-worthy ;). GermanJoe (talk) 12:16, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Comment - (only a few quick points, not a full source review)

• town website in infobox seems to be down - is the address correct?
• ref #8 - wrong dash
• ref #21 - range 76-[66] typo?
• some links are probably dead - see checklink listing at [[2]]

I'll try to take a closer look on the article later (when the first comments are done). Nice work. GermanJoe (talk) 12:16, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Comment The source for "By the late 1990s the population had reached 1.4 million, and had grown to almost 2.1 million in 2013" does not contain either of those numbers or those dates. It does give "1,613,375" as an estimate for the population in 2005... Mattximus (talk) 21:16, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Comment Hi, I'll try to review this section by section over the next day or week.

• Economy:
  • The entire first paragraph is fed off one reference, that is currently a deadlink. I have found an archive version of this at https://web.archive.org/web/20130615000000*/http://unhabitat.org/pmss/getElectronicVersion.aspx?nr=3371&alt=1 but this is a very long document, in French, and I don't know how to link specific facts in the paragraph back to this.
  • "Business owners are drivers of growth for the city" - no reference provided for this.
  • "in 2010, 60 percent of all new buildings in the country were located in Antananarivo, most of which were built for commercial purposes" - again, no reference. Also it might benefit from a rewording, the sentence as given doesn't directly imply that there is a lot of business growth, because perhaps there are almost no buildings built in the country anyway, for all we know.
  • "Under Ravalomanana, construction in the capital increased sharply; twelve new supermarkets were constructed in two years" - this sentence seems a bit out of place. Presumably it refers to a period before 2009 - it is worth clarifying which two year period is referred to - and seems odd, following on from commentary on post 2009 developments.
  • Some other questions:
    • Are the manufactured products exported nationally only, or internationally as well?
    • Do we have any idea of the city's gross product, or GDP growth rate? And also what percentage that is of the national GDP?
    • Who are the city's biggest companies and employers?
    • Is there a stock exchange, or other financial companies, banks etc?

Thanks. More later!  — Amakuru (talk) 11:34, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Archive ? - After pinging Lemurbaby a while ago, it seems like he has little time at the moment for Wiki-related activity. He hasn't edited the article for over a month. It's a pity to close this nomination, but maybe it would be best - and fair towards other nominators waiting for reviews - to archive it for now and restart a new nomination, when the nominator has more time for editing. I'll be glad to help with another review, if needed then. GermanJoe (talk) 15:44, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

• 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. Graham Beards (talk) 08:50, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

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