Wikipedia:Featured article review/Vanilla Ninja

Vanilla Ninja

Article is no longer a featured article.

Major review commentary

I'm nominating this for FAR for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I've become too irregular an editor of Wikipedia as is, but I'm now leaving as a full-time user entirely. I am the only editor of this article, and as un-Wiki as it sounds, I wrote it (check the contributions). If I'm not here it's going to end up out of date (it is already, as it happens). Secondly, I'm very, very annoyed about the requirement for inline citations. When it was made an FA, it wasn't required. Seems like they are now. Well, I know I'm not going to do that, because I think a list of sites used suffices. Regardless, this article therefore is allegedly not referenced properly. Plus the fair use policy has some problem with the images. Feel free to maul my article, but it's never going to meet your FA criteria again. Remove, and thanks. Esteffect 12:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• Remove as all images lack fair use rationales. --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 19:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I removed all but one of the "fair use" images. Jkelly 04:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment This does obviously have some problems with refs and pics. It's also a bit underweight. Este, why don't you look at the music section on WP:FA and see if there's something you can use as template there to bring this back up to standard. Marskell 10:24, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

FARC commentary

Main FA criteria concerns are citations (2c) and image copyright status (4). Marskell 10:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• Remove - insufficient citations and Image:Kivi-v-kivilaan.jpg lacks fair use rationale. Given the comments from Esteffect, this article seems unlikely to be improved to the featured standard. I understand that the band originally comprised four members, but it's confusing to the reader to have "Vanilla Ninja are a three-piece Estonian girl band..." as the first sentence with a picture of four girls right beside it. Pagrashtak 01:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Remove - lack of citations, no improvement over a month. Sandy 16:08, 16 July 2006 (UTC)