Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Noam Chomsky/archive1

Noam Chomsky
An interesting article, and an interesting man. Stumbled across it while looking at Linguistics. Leads into all sorts of other interesting articles too. -Jal 10:41, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * What a strange duck. Good article; interesting topic; support. -Litefantastic 11:55, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Page has had some edit warring problems in the past, though. &bull; Benc &bull; 12:53, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Has had some trouble in the past but i think its turned out well. O'Dubhghaill 17:11, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support (William M. Connolley 20:59, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC))
 * Support as long as this doesn't go on the main page. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 03:37, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
 * Because...? Markalexander100 05:09, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Because we&#8217;ll end up with a savage revert war if it gets on the main page. People like Chomsky always have that affect. GeneralPatton 05:22, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh please. That's not a very good reason at all. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:07, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Not an objection (yet) - can I get a license on that picture? &rarr;Raul654 03:45, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Arguably the greatest biography on Wikipedia, regardless of one's personal opinion of Chomsky --Cyopardi 15:34, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Satori 15:59, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. - Ta bu shi da yu 16:37, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Meelar is right, of course. Support and Protect, this article looks finished to me. AdmN 16:55, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * It&#8217;s not our policy to call an article &#8220;finished&#8221;. The whole concept of wiki is that they&#8217;re constantly evolving and hopefully improving. GeneralPatton 18:26, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was being facetious. :) AdmN 18:46, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. James F. (talk) 17:49, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support, it&#8217;s a good, well written look at the man. GeneralPatton 18:26, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. My congratulations to the writers, and a big hug abrazo sudamericano for each.  This page very nicely covers a very complex set of human balances, competitions, and trade offs. Someone should specifically label the current version in the Description with a label something like "FEATURED ARTICLE VERSION--Start here" and resave this page to the History queue before this page, with its coming notoriety, enters the looming "Tunnel of Edit Wars." That is, the Bush Administration Disinformation Squad (BADS) has not found this page yet. ---Rednblu 20:17, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Object - Very weak lead section, overwhelming TOC, and no references section (see Cite your sources). --mav 21:28, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Object. Sadly changing my vote: there are clearly still content issues to be sorted out.  Support, subject to references. I've reworked the lead.  The TOC is only about a third of a page printed out, which is hardly overwhelming for a 12-page article.  Since we're here, I disagree that this article should not go on the main page: we feature articles because we want more people to read them, and putting them on the main page is a good way to do that.   If silliness breaks out we can revert and protect as usual, but since there's plenty more which could be written about him I would hope that it would encourage positive contributions. (And there are no other "people like Chomsky" ;-) ). Markalexander100 06:05, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support, with references. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:07, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support, although I am afraid that it would be a revert war. -- KneeLess 07:45, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see more on criticisms of Chomsky as a linguist by people like Del Hymes, but support, nonetheless. Bmills 14:25, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Support LegCircus 20:41, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support Denni &#9775; 00:54, 2004 Sep 8 (UTC)
 * Support --Zerbey 02:53, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)