Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Geiger–Marsden experiment/archive2


 * 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 Graham Beards via FACBot (talk) 13:09, 25 April 2015.

Geiger–Marsden experiment

 * Nominator(s): Kurzon (talk) 09:43, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

This article is about the Geiger-Marsden experiments, the experiments by which scientists discovered that every atom contains a nucleus. Kurzon (talk) 09:43, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Comments from Curly Turkey

 * Obviously a lot of work has been put into the article, but there are a number of issues. There is an awful lot of uncited text—often entire paragraphs—and it's not clear how a lot of the sources in the "Bibliography" are used (many are not cited in the body).  The lead (per WP:LEADLENGTH) is far shorter than one would expect from a 19kb article.  Is this your first FAC?  I strongly recommend withdrawing and taking the article to WP:PR and WP:GAN before submitting it here again. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 11:18, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Closing note - I agree, the swathes of text lacking attribution to reliable sources is immediately apparent. This nomination is premature.

Graham Beards (talk) 13:09, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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