Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of climate change science/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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 13:46, 15 August 2018.

History of climate change science

 * Nominator(s): prokaryotes (talk) 00:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Article about the history of climate science, rated a level-5 vital article in History, well written, comprehensive, and appears to meet requirements. prokaryotes (talk) 00:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Was there really nobody before modern times who thought about how past climates and weather may have been different from their own climates/Weather? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:13, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Oppose, suggest withdrawal/closure While I commend prokaryotes for working on this very important topic and think the article is in OK shape, it clearly doesn't meet the FA criteria at present. My specific concerns are: I'd suggest that the article be further fleshed out, and go though a Good article nomination before returning to FAC. Nick-D (talk) 08:54, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Not all material is referenced, including an entire paragraph
 * Covering the massive body of work which has been done on climate change science since 1988 in two short paras is clearly inadequate: this is now a major area of scientific inquiry, and climate change science has been at the centre of the policy and political processes which have tried to develop responses. Such a section also needs to cover the rise of climate change denial over this period.

Coord note -- I echo Nick's points, and am going to archive this nom to allow work to progress outside the FAC process. I notice that under the heading FA nomination on the article talk page, several editors are being pinged for suggested improvements. This is commendable but should take place prior to a FAC nomination. I'd suggest that after that the article undergo a formal Peer Review, as well as GAN, and then consider re-nominating here. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 13:46, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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