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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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 14:46, 24 April 2015 (UTC).

Addition

 * Nominator(s): Brirush (talk) 17:35, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

This article is about one of the most basic subjects in human life, addition. This article is exceptionally well thought-out, and easily passed a Good Article nomination. One of the goals of any WikiProject is for its top-importance articles to reach Featured Article status, and I believe that this WikiProject Mathematics article meets all of the FA criteria. If all goes well, this would be the first of a number of mathematics articles to be improved and then nominated for FA.Brirush (talk) 17:35, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Image review
 * captions that aren't complete sentences shouldn't end in periods
 * File:Addition01.svg is tagged as missing a description
 * Why not use File:Addition_chart.svg?
 * File:AdditionLineAlgebraic.svg is tagged as missing a description, same with File:AdditionLineUnary.svg. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


 * @Nikkimaria I have added descriptions to the three images and replace the png with an svg. Another editor has fixed the caption. Let me know if there are any other image-related issues I should know about. Thanks! Brirush (talk) 23:23, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Comments
 * is the terminology any different in other languages, especially not indo-euroepan ones?
 * I found this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/addend#Translations, but it didn't reveal anything insightful. Perhaps I could add Wiktionary links to the article?Brirush (talk) 00:43, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * The terminology is similar in other languages; for instance, in Chinese, the addends are called 加數, literally "addition numbers". In persian, they are called جَمع‌وَند, where جَمع‌ means "sum". I can add this to the article, but with so many language families, all with essentially the same terms, I don't know if it would be helpful.


 * I believe some dolphins/orcas and parrots have been able to to addition
 * Found and added a ref for Asian elephants. No images yet, though. I think images of animals performing addition are very rare, but finding an image of a rhesus macaque or Asian elephant doing something else would be say.Brirush (talk) 00:59, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I have only found one claim for adding parrots: Alex (parrot) is described in a short Duke University blurb as recognizing 2+2=4. However, none of the numerous sources on his page seem to back up this claim. For dolphins and orcas, the best claims I can find say that they can count up to six, but I have not yet found an addition reference.
 * "Alex could even add, to a limited extent, correctly giving the number of similar objects on a tray" and has a book ref. First goofle seach I found . Nergaal (talk) 22:11, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I would love and image like the one here.
 * Good idea! I'll see what I can do.


 * I am not sure I like the bulleted style. Any reason not to use ": [...] " instead? Nergaal (talk) 21:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Good idea; not sure why I didn't do it originally.

Nergaal (talk) 23:28, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Drive by comments on referencing
Aa77zz (talk) 20:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Lipschutz Lipson is not in references
 * Need first names:
 * Bunt, Jones, and Bedient
 * Davison, Landau, McCracken, and Thompson
 * Baroody and Tiilikainen
 * Fosnot and Dolk
 * Be consistent in whether authors are listed with first or last name first
 * Only list sources that are cited (others in Further reading):
 * Bunt, Jones, and Bedient not cited
 * Kaplan not cited
 * Williams not cited
 * Davison not cited
 * Baroody and Tiilikainen not cited
 * Weaver not cited (and would need publisher)
 * Poonen not cited
 * Book titles should be in title case
 * (3e ed.) -> (3rd ed.) (why the "e" - French?)
 * Marguin (1994) - why is the book listed twice when short cites are used?
 * Wynn, Karen has a title=
 * Books should include the publisher:
 * Wynn, Karen needs publisher
 * Baroody and Tiilikainen needs publisher
 * I have completed all of these tasks, as well as a few similar things (a few of the mathematical refs had name problems). Let me know if my new further reading section works. The 3e thing seems to come from someone writing "edition=3e", intending it to come out as "3e" and not "3e Ed".Brirush (talk) 23:14, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Placeholder, intending to review this in a couple of days. Opabinia regalis (talk) 07:38, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Closing comment -- Sorry but we really should be seeing declarations of support for promotion after this long at FAC, so I'll be archiving this shortly. Per FAC instructions, pls allow two weeks before nominating this or another article. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 14:46, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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