Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ursula Franklin

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 promoted by SandyGeorgia 02:23, 3 February 2009 [1].

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Ursula Franklin

Nominator(s): Bwark (talk)

Re-submitting to FAC on behalf of User:Bwark after my premature archival of previous FAC. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:01, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because it recently received GA status and after some further editing, I feel it meets the FA criteria for completeness, quality of writing, etc. Bwark

• Tenative Support I'm about to head out for class, so I do not have time for a thorough read through, but my glance and skim through suggests everything is in order. No dab links were reported, but you do have one external link that looks as though it may need attention. TomStar81 (Talk) 16:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

The actual link to the McGill Daily (citation #10) is OK, but the information it contains on Ursula Franklin is nearly midway down the page. I don't know how to construct the link so that it points directly to the information on Franklin. Bwark (talk) 19:54, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Strong Support: I happen to be the GA reviewer of the article (Talk:Ursula Franklin/GA1). During the review, I read the article many times and found it worthy of a FA rating. I didn't find any errors that time. It hasn't changed a lot. Very comprehensive and a great piece of work. Kensplanet^T_C 14:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Support, with a few minor suggestions:

• The last three sentences of the opening paragraph all start with “She”. In contrast, Pacifism and conscience uses her last name exclusively (six times). Consider mixing these up a little.

I have tried to vary the language as suggested. Bwark (talk) 20:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• In Career, third paragraph, the second sentence starts with "Its", which could refer to the report just mentioned rather than the (intended?) publisher of the report.

I have cleared up the ambiguity. Bwark (talk) 20:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Also in Career, the last paragraph has this phrase: "She is actively involved in numerous activities such as". This could be shortened.

I have shortened the wordy phrasing. Bwark (talk) 20:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Kablammo (talk) 18:00, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Image review Oppose on criterion 3 File:001instantthisbillboard.jpg - This image has some strange and somewhat contradictory licensing information on it. I'm going to ask a Commons admin about it. All other images check out. Awadewit (talk) 19:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

See User talk:Elcobbola#File:001instantthisbillboard.jpg. A much clearer explanation than I would give. :) Awadewit (talk) 02:53, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Thought I was safe using an image from the Commons. Not to worry. I'll eliminate this image and replace it soon with one that has no copyright problems. Bwark (talk) 03:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I have eliminated this image and have added a new subheading so that readers will know that the subsection discusses Franklin's ideas about communications technologies. Bwark (talk) 15:30, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I have nominated the image for deletion. Like Wikipedia, Commons has user-generated content, so it is full of errors. :) Awadewit (talk) 07:52, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

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