Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Octopus card/archive1

Octopus card
A bit of a self-nomination (I've done some work on it, and my name is actually on that article as I took a picture of my own Octopus card), and my first nomination to boot. A lot of the information is spun off from the MTR article. Overall, it's been on PR for nearly two weeks with very limited comments. --JuntungWu 15:57, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. A fascinating article. Denni &#9775; 19:25, 2005 Feb 6 (UTC)
 * Support. Very interesting Brookie 19:48, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Informative Instantnood 20:27, Feb 6 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Object. Almost everything looks in order so I anticipate supporting soon. However the pictures could use some improvement. No offense, and I need to be careful since I certainly could not take better pictures myself, but they look a bit amateurish.  I think they could be fixed perfectly by using an image processor such as the free [www.gimp.org Gimp] or photoshop, but I don't know.  All they need is a bit of cleanup, like smoother blocking out of the name in the upper left corner of the first image, but mostly they just need to be fit to gridlines better, as they are almost all a bit askew. The perspective of some of them is odd enough that they are distracting.  If any of this is unreasonable enough that it can't feasably be fixed, then ignore and consider this a support vote. I hope that wasn't too harsh, because this really is great work overall. - Taxman 21:35, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll get a new card scan later today or tomorrow. JuntungWu 01:12, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - Are the photos highly compressed? It seems like they appear very grainy to me. Don't worry about the photo size, (Image_use_policy), Wikipedia accepts photo sizes for up to 2MB and can produce optimised thumbnails by itself. Go ahead and upload the high-quality versions. ;) Once this is fixed, or nothing can be done, it's support from me. - Mailer Diablo 01:29, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. The pictures are now clear scans of an old card that I had lying around. JuntungWu 03:15, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the pictures of the cards are much better, but those of the machines are still off center, odd angled, and oddly rotated. The vertical faces of the machines should be straight up and down in the picture, the other straight lines should line up with the sides of the pictures. As I mentioned I think that could be largely fixed by properly rotating in the Gimp or taking new pictures. - Taxman 06:00, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * I took those pictures and I am a really bad photographer, so I don't know if I can take better pictures. I'll see what I can do. JuntungWu 06:25, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, the latest picture that I've uploaded on Photoshop has been sharpened. Can you take a look and see if it looks good? Thanks. JuntungWu 05:42, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks much better now! =D You have my support now. - Mailer Diablo 14:59, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I assume you're refering to the McDonald's reader, and yes that one is a good one. What I am hoping is that you can rotate and crop the MTR reader and the value add machine to line them up a bit more squarely. But I'll switch to support as that seems quite minor now. - Taxman 15:11, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, very good! My old faltmate told me about those cards as his family lives in HK and he went there, so I checked out the article and was suprised to find such detailed information! Very good work, well researched, well-written. I didn't know that so much could be written about a train-card! - Ta bu shi da yu 01:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. 1) some sections look a bit messy. For example, the history section jumps from fact to fact, and the "Getting and using an Octopus card" has several one and two-sentence subsections. 2) The comparison section is a good idea, but doesn't actually compare with other systems. 3) Are there any references on paper? Jeronimo 22:04, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC).
 * I mostly used publicity brochures from Octopus and from Sony, so the references point to the online version of the same. I actually have printed copies. I'll tighten up the history part a bit - it does look a bit jumpy. JuntungWu 01:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've rewritten the history section, and the "Getting and using an Octopus card" one and two-sentence subsections have been merged. I've also merged the "operations" and "technology" into a "back-end" section, with two sections, focusing on the card technolgoy itself and on clearing and settlement. This should work. JuntungWu 16:50, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This is better already; the history section is much better now, although it would be nice if not every paragraph started with a year or date. Issue 2) is still open. 11:19, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've completely rewritten that section, and now have three sections, one on adaptation of the Octopus card (inside HK), one on a comparison with Mondex, a third citing similarities with other cards, noting similarities with Taipei and Shenzhen's systems. This should work. As for the references part I cite several newspaper references and the brochures from HKMA and from MTR. There's some academic studies as well as two presentations from the World Bank, which I think is fairly adequate. I know there's no books but this is a fairly recent topic. JuntungWu 16:18, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. A very interesting article. -- Chris j wood 20:02, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've done another cleanup and actually translated a couple of lines from the Japanese Wikipedia concerning the FeliCa chip. (Despite the fact that this is a Hong Kong-based system, the English and Japanese wikipedias have very long articles on this card, whereas the Chinese wikipedia actually only has a stub!) JuntungWu 17:08, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. One comment: Is there any fraud or card forgery? I couldn't find anything about that on the web, but I would be curious if there is any, and even more curious if there is none. -- Chris 73 Talk 05:06, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * I shoved that part to the main article on the Sony FeliCa chip. Sony says it's pretty darn secure and public key infrastructure is also fairly secure. JuntungWu 05:46, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support--ZayZayEM 06:37, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)