Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Joseph McCarthy/archive1

Joseph McCarthy[edit]

Not a self nomination. I just think it's well written.--Richy 09:33, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support An awesome, awesome article. It should be featured and made a feature-article-of-the-day stat. --Kitch 12:02, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Object but it looks like it will get there pretty soon. 1) The lead contains the massively POV statement "...became the subject of aggressive witch-hunts...". That should be rephrased more factually. Part of the POV is that the article has a section on Venona, but the rest of the article and especially the lead completely ignores it. It's importance should not be overlooked (or overstated). The lead section and of course the rest of the article should state the facts and let the reader decide, not cram the witch hunt POV at them. Much of the rest of the article seems to do a very good job at that. 2) The Truman and Eisenhower sections are so short they should be combined, expanded, or merged elsewhere if they are not really central to the issue. 3) There's a one sentence paragraph at the end of 'Senator' that should be handled similarly. 4) The Crucible section contains the conjecture "This was probably the primary cause for...". That needs to be either cited to a source or the facts need to be stated. 5) The references need to be properly formatted as at Wikipedia:Cite sources. I'm concerned about the reliability of an article with only online sources, is it possible to get and use some high quality print references too? 6) It is impossible to tell where specific information in the article came from or to verify it without some inline citations. Please cite any contentious or important facts to a source. - Taxman 22:48, May 11, 2005 (UTC)