Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Aleister Crowley/archive1


 * 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 User:GrahamColm 10:01, 3 February 2014 (UTC).

Aleister Crowley

 * Nominator(s): JJARichardson (talk) 21:27, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

This article is about the notorious English occultist and ceremonial magician who founded the belief system and philosophy of Thelema. He was also a mountaineer, poet, chess player, and cultural researcher who was a pioneer in introducing Eastern philosophies and belief systems such as Buddhism and Hinduism to Western minds. This has been a GA for a while now and after a read through it appears to be flawlessly written and referenced, but I will be happy to undertake any necessary improvements. JJARichardson (talk) 21:27, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Comments from Eric   Corbett  I think this nomination is premature and ill-considered, and "flawlessly referenced" it most certainly is not. There are missing sources for Kaczynski (2011) and Kaczynski (2000) for starters, and Crowley's 1983 Holy Books of Thelema is included in the Bibliography but never used. Eric  Corbett  22:13, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I have corrected these broken references to Kaczynski (2010), and deleted the unused Crowley book from the bibliography. JJARichardson (talk) 22:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I think you have missed others: Graham Colm (talk) 23:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Booth 2000, pp. 164–167; Sutin 2000, pp. 105–107; Kaczynski 2000, pp. 112–113; Churton 2011, p. 85. Harv error: link from #CITEREFKaczynski2000 doesn't point to any citation.
 * Spence 2006, pp. 19–20; Churton 2011, pp. 30–31. Harv error: link from #CITEREFSpence2006 doesn't point to any citation.
 * Tully, Caroline (2010). "Walk Like an Egyptian: Egypt as Authority in Aleister Crowley's Reception of The Book of the Law". The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 12 (1) (London: Equinox). Harv error: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFTully2010.

Comment "Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article prior to a nomination." Has this been done?—indopug (talk) 02:44, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Nominator has 14 edits, all but 3 after posting this nom. No consultation with major editors before nomination, though the main contributor User:Midnightblueowl has been informed of it subsequently. Quite apart from the citation errors listed above I can see numerous problems with the prose, which I have begun to list. But I don't see the point in bringing them here until the main editors are aboard with the nomination. So I'm sitting this out for the present. Brianboulton (talk) 17:51, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello there guys. I don't wish to offend or in any way upset JJARichardson, whom I have worked well with on the Jack Parsons (rocket propulsion engineer) article (and which we have co-nominated for FAR), but I was aware that the Crowley article was not yet FAC quality, and needed a good peer review first. If I had thought otherwise, then I would have submitted the article myself. Sorry JJAR ! :( Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:08, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Withdraw I would like to withdraw this nomination. I regret making this error, but would like to co-nominate this article with User:Midnightblueowl once all the issues are resolved. JJARichardson (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Graham Colm (talk) 11:15, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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