Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ban Ki-moon


 * 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 02:59, 11 September 2007.

Ban Ki-moon
After a month of steady work and a recent peer review, I feel this satisfies the featured article criteria. In some sense this is a "current event" as he's less than one year into a five-year term. Secretary-General (official UN style is capitalized and hyphenated) is not such a busy office that this will be "unstable." It will expand (I hope slowly) over the next five years, not unlike current U.S. Presidential Candidates that are FAs. Ban is not yet a subject of serious academic inquiry, but I have a subscription to Foreign Affairs, and will be monitoring this and other outlets for developments going forward. I will also be attending to the article closely over the course of this FAC (my first biography FAC, be gentle) and will strive to incorporate constructive criticism and guidance quickly. --JayHenry 07:52, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. I must say I've looked it over and can't find much wrong. Great work. Recurring dreams 07:07, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Everything looks good to me - it's well-written, comprehensive, neutral and well-referenced. I've already made several minor edits, and added the Korean name infobox per WP:MOS-KO. Several minor points:
 * Under the "Personality" section: "Ban's work ethic is well-documented. His schedule is broken into five minute blocks." - two short, consecutive sentences. Perhaps they would be better combined into a single sentence?
 * In the "Campaign for Secretary-General" section, the opening line links to February 2006. I honestly don't know if we're supposed to link to such dates or not, so it either needs to be removed, or other such dates in the article should be similary linked. PC78 17:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi PC78, I'm really happy someone from Wikiproject Korea was able to give the article a look! Thanks a lot!  Both of your catches are good ones.  Apparently we aren't supposed to link incomplete dates, only September 10, 2007 and such, because then a format setting in preference kicks in.  Who knew!  Fixed the first sentence you identified.  Thanks again! --JayHenry 18:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment These fixes needed:
 * "which he's worked" - contractions shouldn't be used
 * Em dashes should be unspaced
 * Full dates in the footnotes need linking. Epbr123 19:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Good catches all. I've fixed 'em.  Thanks! --JayHenry 20:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Support Maybe my standards for featured articles is a bit too high but shouldn't there be more citing & more analysis? I don't know. Well, I don't see stuffs going wrong on what's already there... so (Wikimachine 23:25, 10 September 2007 (UTC))
 * Your standards might be a bit high if you feel that over 100 citations from 52 sources about someone who has been Secretary-General for nine months is too few. If there are areas that you think are weak, I'm happy to grab more sources.  There's not much analysis because he hasn't been Secretary-General for long and no serious academic would consider that long enough to make an evaluation of his success, whereas analysis from a journalist would be obsolete in a month or two (although some journalistic analysis is included in the sourcing).  I also wanted to give the article a concise framework so that over the next four years the article doesn't become 360K in size.  Let me know, however, if you'd like to see anything done further and I'm happy to make the article more satisfactory to you. --JayHenry 00:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.