Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Zhao Ziyang/archive1

Zhao Ziyang[edit]

I feel the article is well written and the person seems to deserve a page on the main page, not now (because of the news of his death) but later. -- Sundar 10:35, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

This paragraph needs copyediting: "In Hong Kong, 10,000-15,000 people went to the candlelight vigil of Zhao. The mainlanders such as Chen Juoyi said that it was illegal for any Hong Kong legislators to join any farewell ceremony "because under the one country two system Hong Kong legislator cannot care anything about mainland." The statement caused a political storm in Hong Kong for three days after his speech. Szeto Wah, the chairman of The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, said that it was not right for the Communists to depress the memorial ceremony. The twenty-four pan-democrat legislators went against the chairperson of the Legco, insisting that security be tightened at Tiananmen Square and at Zhao's house, and that the authorities try to prevent any public displays of grief." --Ji ang 22:58, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure what to make of an article which has only newspaper reports from the past month as references. Jeronimo 08:28, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Support. Nicely written and seems comprehensive - as far as I can tell after reading some press articles ovet the past few days. Printed references (books) would be nice, but the current online references are quite sufficient, if they are amended with info like 'retrieved on' and 'print edition name and date'. It would be nice to see this featured ASAP, if it is passed as a FA. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 23:46, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I would support if Print or non-obituary/death-related news articles added as references, and that a few of the ones there are culled, or put in single entry (say "news reports on Ziyang's death (BBC) (Reuters) (CNN) (XNA) ).--ZayZayEM 15:06, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)