Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Joe Louis/archive1

Joe Louis

 * Nominator(s): BillTunell (talk) 20:15, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because...

I've been working on this article since mid-April 2009. It was kind of a mess (C-Class), so I went on a mission, now at 450+ edits. I've added over 90 unique references, including citations to 13 web-accesible books. Little of the original article is left; from my learning curve, I've had to delete multiple things which were simply inaccurate. I've either written or re-written virtually everything.

A fair amount of content has been moved to Joe Louis versus Max Schmeling, which retains some earlier content of this article. As a sidelight, I have also added related pages for Mike Jacobs (boxing) and Truman Gibson.

At the peer review stage, I notified the boxing wikiproject, as well as a few volunteers, but the only comments were by user:Recognizance. Thanks for his input. The peer review is archived here.

There's some minor clenaup work left, and I suspect some rationales need to be improved for pictures, most of which I've uploaded. I'll do that while FA review is pending. I'd still like input from anyone with hard copy access to Louis' "My Life" autobiography, which is not web-accessible.

BillTunell (talk) 20:15, 22 May 2009 (UTC)