Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bobby Gibbes/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 promoted by User:GrahamColm 10:01, 25 September 2013 (UTC).

Bobby Gibbes

 * Nominator(s): Ian Rose (talk) 12:41, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

This article has grown slowly in detail and (I think) quality since I launched it in 2007, a couple of months after the death of its subject, one of the RAAF's best-known personalities of World War II. It passed GAN in 2010 and MilHist ACR a couple of weeks ago, and I think it's ready for FAC. I've made use of a good many sources to try and tell Gibbes' story in context, and to get behind the usual facade of the fearless fighter pilot and crack shot, neither of which he claimed to be. Still, "irrepressible" is the word I'd use to describe him: a dual ace who flew combat in a cast when he broke his ankle; went beyond the call of duty to rescue one of his mates who crashed in the desert; participated in the "Morotai Mutiny" of 1945; pioneered air transport in New Guinea; and built and flew his own light plane in his 60s and 70s. There should be something in his story for everyone... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:41, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Images - Captions that aren't complete sentences shouldn't end in periods, but images themselves are fine. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:28, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Done, I think -- tks Nikki. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:56, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support -- Wow, what a great article! Thoroughly engaging and worthy of FA status.  --   Cassianto Talk   16:55, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Tks, much appreciated, especially coming from someone like yourself who's worked on many great biographical articles. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:56, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Support I supported this article's promotion to A-class status, and think that it also meets the FA criteria. It's among the best of Ian's very fine collection of articles on RAAF personalities. I do have a couple of minor comments though:
 * "favourably impressed" - "favourably" seems unnecessary
 * That is a bit of a hoary old cliche, isn't it? Tks for pointing it out!
 * "one of which was said to have been the personal transport of Albert Kesselring" - I'd suggest tweaking this to "one of which was said to have been the personal transport of senior Luftwaffe officer Albert Kesselring" or similar so readers understand the connection. Nick-D (talk) 00:42, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree, done. Tks for review, Nick, and for the earlier one at A-Class, which prompted what I think were significant improvements. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:04, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Support I've archived all the links to protect them from link rot. If you do not in anyway agree with my non-essential edits, please feel free to revert -- the decision rests with you. This was originally my only criticism of an otherwise well-written and well-sourced article deserving of the FA status. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:14, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Heh, I generally leave it till I find a link has gone dead to archive, so no issue with you pre-empting that. Tks for taking the time to do that and for your review/support, Phil. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:24, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Graham Colm (talk) 08:46, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
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