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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 not promoted by SandyGeorgia 02:18, 24 January 2009 [1], but was reopened by SandyGeorgia on 13:01, 26 January 2009.

Ursula Franklin[edit]

Nominator(s): Bwark (talk)

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 (talk) 18:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I corrected the spaced emdashes, WP:MOS#Captions need attention to puncutation, and I put in a request to User:Brighterorange to run his script to correct the faulty dashes in the citations. (I do not know where to categorize this article at WP:FA if it passes, it seems to fit in at least four categories.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would categorize this article broadly as "culture and society" but I realize categories are often narrower than that. For example, I see that the feature article on Harold Innis I worked on over the last year is categorized narrowly as "business, economics and finance." That may be because Innis was a professional economist (economic historian actually). Ursula Franklin is a professional metallurgist and research physicist, but I'd say her main contributions are philosophical or sociological ones and the article reflects that. Hope that helps. Bwark (talk) 12:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have forwarded the e-mail dated July 22, 2008 from the publishing company granting permission for use of the photo of the book cover. Bwark (talk) 01:20, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks. --Sherool (talk) 15:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Permissions has granted an OTRS ticket for this image. Bwark (talk) 19:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Just checking out the lead, found this:
  • She is the author of The Real World of Technology based on her 1989 Massey Lectures - which is based...
Please, could you leave a note at my talk page reminding me to come back and fully review this article? Thanks, ₪Ceran →(cheer→chime →carol) 00:19, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have corrected the grammatical error in the lead that you pointed out. Many thanks. I have also left the requested note on your talk page. Bwark (talk) 21:31, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Until comments are resolved:

Career:

  • She spent the rest of the war repairing bombed buildings - helping to repair, or designing repairs, what did she do?
I have clarified this by adding "helping to repair" which is more accurate. Bwark (talk) 21:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • she - occurs too many times throughout article, needs varied SS
I have eliminated many of these pesky pronouns, partly be restructuring sentences. Bwark (talk) 23:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • She did post-doctoral studies at the University of Toronto (U of T) and worked for 15 years at the Ontario Research Foundation. - completed p-d studies...
I have replaced "did" with "completed" as suggested. Bwark (talk) 21:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Franklin was also active in the Voice of Women (VOW), now the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. - it's kind of obvious, but could you briefly explain what this is?
I have added a fuller explanation. Bwark (talk) 23:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • The ref with 'for more information' needs to be correctly formatted - no, for more info
I eliminated the entire footnote as superfluous. Bwark (talk) 23:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will come back after these are resolved. Ceran→→ 15:10, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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