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) 22 April 2021 [1].

Philippines

Nominator(s): Showiecz ( talk) 13:38, 22 April 2021 (UTC) reply

This article is about the country of the Philippines, a nation of more than 100 million in Southeast Asia. As one of the most populated countries in the world, it is quite significant. Showiecz ( talk) 13:38, 22 April 2021 (UTC) reply

• Procedural oppose nom is ranked 9 in the contributors by authorship, and they did not discuss on talk page with other editors if it is ready. ( t · c) buidhe 14:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC) reply
• Procedural oppose Agree with above, as a major topic, and given the article hasn't been prep'd for FAC, with no indication of following up by the nominator on the likely myriad and complex points requiring addressing (see the FAC for India for eg), propose a WP:SNOW close. Appreciate however that the nom was in good faith. Ceoil ( talk) 21:16, 22 April 2021 (UTC) reply
• Oppose - premature nom. As above, major article and primary authors have not been contacted. Furthermore, there's some issues throughout that show that this wasn't fully prepared - an outstanding better source tag from 2020, outdated material in spots such as the statement "Gross international reserves as of October 2013 are $83.201 billion." or "Remittances peaked in 2006 at 10.4% of the national GDP, and were 8.6% and 8.5% in 2012 and in 2014 respectively" (2014 source). Water supply needs almost a complete update, I think. Some prose issues as well "The Ati-Atihan, Moriones and Sinulog festivals are among the most well-known" is a sentence fragment. Some refs are missing page numbers, such as ref 108. This needs a got bit more preparation. Hog Farm _Talk 22:03, 22 April 2021 (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• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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.

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