Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Moses/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 not promoted 16:08, 30 July 2007.

Moses
It fits all featured article criteria and provides the details of his life without missing any events provides 105 references has a link to a 90mb page detailing Moses in rabbinic literature also it has many revelant pictures all around a perfect page i am surprised it hasn't been nominated in the past--Java7837 22:29, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Support--Java7837 22:29, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

This article surpasses the good article criteria by far--Java7837 22:33, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

This article fits the featured article criteria also it has a good section about notable historians that mentioned Moses a section on the possible egyptian origin of his name also it has the Template:Prophets of the Tanakh and Template:Prophets in the Qur'an on it. Also there is a link on the Moses article to Mosaic authorship it has a very good section on further reading. I do not see how this article could be improved.--Java7837 23:16, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment - Please format the footnotes with regards to the manual of style; raw URLs should never be seen as link text. HHermans 00:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Also, with so many footnotes (many of them duplicates), please provide a References section that lists all the cited sources in alphabetical order. Timotheos 01:38, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment. It is one thing to inform relevent wikiprojects about a featured article cadidate.  It is another to ask 20 different projects to "vote for moses to be a featured article."  (example, and user contribs.  I have not looked at the article yet, but this sort of canvassing makes me disinclined to do so.  Pastordavid 01:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * CommentI used ref name when links where used more than once also references do not now list link but instead link to it also there is a further reading section so i do not think list 71 references in alphabetical order is logical besides this makes adding references to the article a major hassle--Java7837 04:08, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose References need to include the author, publisher, publishing date, access date, language (if not English) and format (if a PDF file). Epbr123 10:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Criticisms section has no references. "Moses in Mandaeism" section has only one sentence. "Moses in Jewish thought" also has a tag saying that it requires expansion. --Kaypoh 13:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Kaypoh, virtually nothing is available online about Mandaeism besides it is like saying Hindu viewpoint of Muhammad what can you write other than that Hindus do not consider Muhammad a prophet. --Java7837 15:20, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Really? Then maybe you should remove the "Moses in Mandaeism" section. It was renamed to "Moses in other religions" but has a "requires expansion" tag. If the "Moses in other religions" and "Moses in Jewish thought" sections do not require expansion, remove the tags. If the sections require expansion, do it. Also, I see no references in the "Moses in Mormon thought" and "Horned Moses" sections. Someone added two references to the Criticism section. Good! Maybe you could also add a reference for the last sentence. I'm not sure if the short Criticism section requires expansion. --Kaypoh 09:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Though heavily referenced, there are still large sections missing citations. The sections discussing him in other religions are too small. They need to be greatly expanded.--Ghostexorcist 19:13, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose - A Featured article, in my opinion, does not have tags saying "this section needs expansion" as this one does. I also note that there are generally too few references in certain sections, as above some of the sections are too short, and that the first image has the name of the artist last-name first. This article is very good, but still has several problems which keep it from FA status. John Carter 19:17, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.