Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/E. Urner Goodman


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The article was promoted 00:09, 2 February 2008.

E. Urner Goodman


I'm nominating this article for featured article because it has been reviewed at Scouting WikiProject and is believed ready for FA consideration. All known reliable sources are cited throughout the article.  JGHowes talk  -  04:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Support Sumoeagle179 (talk) 02:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Excellent article. Cla68 (talk) 04:45, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Karanacs (talk) 17:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Good job. Karanacs (talk) 03:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support now. —  Rlevse  •  Talk  • 23:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have a few concerns about the way some of the information is structured and feel that a few more citations are needed.
 * Need a nonbreaking space between a number and its unit or qualifier (for example, 183,000 members)
 * I did a little copyediting in the Personal information section, but I think the first paragraph wavers too much between talking about church, talking about writing, then talking about church again. I know that much of the events happened concurrently, but I think you should still segregate them into different paragraphs (or at least group them together in this paragraph).
 * Need a citation for the information quoted from his diary about joining the church
 * What was the song not selected for?
 * The article doesn't need to include his age as a volunteer scoutmaster.
 * Image captions should not end with a period unless they are a full sentence
 * The section headings are misleading in the Scouting career section. The first two have a date range, leading the reader to think that the third one takes place after 1951. Instead, it overlaps both of the other sections.  What if you rename the first section to "Local service" (and move the first paragraph of the 1918-1951 section into that section), the name the second one National Program Director?
 * Need a citation for the fact that "The brotherhood of Scout honor campers with its American Indian overtones was a success "
 * I'd move the big quote from Goodman about the Order to earlier in the section. You can also take out the "almost 50 years ago" because people might be reading that sentence in 2010 or 2020, giving them an inaccurate idea of the timeframe.
 * The Later Years section has several places where he is referred to as "Urner" or "Urner Goodman" and it should just be Goodman.
 * The paragraph on family life in Later Years does not flow well.
 * I'd move the information on his further involvement in the Order of the Arrow from Later Years to the Order of the Arros section.
 * Reply: I've made some edits per comments by Karanacs; however, I believe the use of "Urner" in the Later Years section, in the context of the discussion about his wife Louise and son George, is in accordance with WP:NAMES, is it not?  JGHowes talk  -  18:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I took a stab at rewriting bits of that section to remove some of the Urners. Can you take a look and make sure it reads clearly to you? Can you list out, also, which points you've addressed (I won't be back online until tomorrow so it's fine to wait and then say "everything but XXXX".) Karanacs (talk) 23:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed Everything but sub-section headings in Scouting career section have been addressed. Thanx for your rewrites, which did improve the article. The sub-section headings are a challenge, because the Order of the Arrow is what the biographee is most remembered for, and it really was a recurring aspect of his entire Scouting career (and, indeed, even his post-Scouting retirement), so it seems best to leave as is, I think.  JGHowes  talk  -  02:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the rest of the nbsps for you (it counts for stuff like 24 years too). I understand that the Order of the Arrow was recurring, but I think if you rename the sections so as not to focus on dates but on roles that he played within scouting it would make more sense at first glance for the reader.  To have two of the three sections be named with a date range and the third go across several date ranges is confusing.  I am also unsure why the other information about the Order is in the Later Years section vs in the Order section. Karanacs (talk) 15:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment I see Karanacs' point. How about "Early Scouting career" and "Professional Scouting career" or something similar? — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 22:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I see your point and have renamed the Scouting sections, as well as changing "personal information" to "early years and marriage". About ndash, this was changed by another editor to a hyphen and I've encountered this on other articles as well. There seems to be a belief that the use of ndash is now deprecated (as one editor wrote in the edit summary for another article).  JGHowes talk  -  23:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've changed hyphens to en-dashes re SandyGeorgia's edit summary note  JGHowes talk  -  21:32, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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