Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Henry Wells (general)/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 Karanacs 21:07, 27 September 2009.

Henry Wells (general)

 * Nominator(s): Abraham, B.S. (talk) 05:03, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I believe it satisfies the criteria. Biographical article on an Australian lieutenant general, who served as a senior officer in the Second World War, was the administrative head of all Commonwealth forces in the Korean War, and whose career culminated with his appointment as Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee; the professional head of the Australian Military. Article has been passed as both a Good Article and a WP:MILHIST A-Class article. Any and all comments welcome! Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 05:03, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Comment. Alt text is present and is of good quality (thanks). One thing, though: the alt text for the lead image should help the visually-impaired reader get the gist of what Wells looked like. What enormously bushy eyebrows the man had! At least that should be mentioned. Please see WP:ALT. Eubulides (talk) 06:44, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Lol. Have added a little about his short, thinning hair and large bushy eyebrows. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 06:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it looks good. Eubulides (talk) 07:12, 14 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:50, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review, mate. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 02:48, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Image check: File:Wells guard inspection Malaya.JPG appears to be a copyvio. Stifle (talk) 15:13, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This unfortunately appears to be true, the source page is http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/HOB/56/0630/MC (the template used on the image page doesn't seem to be working quite right), and the image still has copyright claimed by the AWM, and is dated after the 1955 cut-off for PD_AUS. David Underdown (talk) 15:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * After a quick poke around on teh AWM website, there are quite a few photogrpahs from the Korean War period which should be OK copyright-wise, and would fit equally well in the relevant section of hte article. This may take you to search results, but may be session dependent, otherwise go to http://www.awm.gov.au/database/cas.asp enter henry wells as the search terms, and pick Korean War, 1950-1953 from the dropdown - I got 22 image hits. David Underdown (talk) 15:41, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No, this is not exactly the case. Australian Government photographs (criterion E on the template) states that Government held or owned photographs, such as this one, are copyright free after 50 years; this was taken 53 years ago. Additionally, this photo was tagged as copyright free on the AWM website when I uploaded it. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 22:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Can we verify that it is definitely a government-owned image? Stifle (talk) 14:53, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * As I stated on the image's listing, it was taken by an employee of the Australian Government in a capacity of his duties and is owned/held by the Australian War Memorial, meaning that it is government owned. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 14:58, 19 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Support This excellent article easily meets the FA criteria; great work. Nick-D (talk) 23:46, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review, Nick. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 02:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Support: very well done in my opinion although I was disappointed that there was no mention of the street that is named after him in the residential area at Duntroon...I jest, of course, but it does exist (I used to live there). — AustralianRupert (talk) 13:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Lol. Thanks for the review, mate. I'll see if I can find a ref for the street. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 13:43, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You can confirm that here Nick-D (talk) 11:03, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Nick! I had a look around and couldn't find anything. Will add this in now. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 11:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Support  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 00:56, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review, YellowMonkey. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 03:28, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
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