Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Omayra Sánchez/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 list was promoted by 10:02, 15 March 2013 (UTC).

Omayra Sánchez

 * Nominator(s):  ceran  thor 23:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I think it is the article I am most proud of in my history of content contributions. It is a deeply touching subject: Brianboulton accurately describes Omayra's plight as "harrowing". Somehow in the face of uncompromising misfortune and inevitable death, this spellbinding 13 year old girl remained brave, loving, and innocent. I hope the article does Omayra the justice she deserves.  ceran  thor 23:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Review by GabeMc
I'll re-read the article later and give a more detailed review, but off-hand:
 * Avoid terminal punctuation in image captions.
 * Per the MOS it's okay. "Most captions are not complete sentences, but merely sentence fragments that should not end with a period. If any complete sentence occurs in a caption, all sentences and any sentence fragments in that caption should end with a period."


 * I noticed a couple isbn-10s. Use isbn-13 whenever possible.
 * Fixed!


 * Slight inconsistencies between refs #3 and #4 and #28 (there may be others). Make consistent throughout. Also, I don't think BBC News Online should be italicized.
 * What inconsistencies are there? I combined 3 and 28 by the way. My mistake. And the reason it's italicized is due to the template, so it's beyond my control at the moment.
 * Ref #3: "BBC. Retrieved September 3, 2008." Ref #4: "(BBC). November 13, 1985." Also, if you want to avoid italics, then place "BBC News Online" as the publisher. You don't need to say BBC and BBC News. GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  02:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I still don't see any inconsistencies, but if there are any it's probably because one uses a cite web and the other a cite news template.  ceran  thor 02:47, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Avoid use of given name. Unless there is some reason for this I am missing, the article uses Omayra were it should be using Sánchez, except where there is ambiguity such as the kind caused by mentioning several Sánchez family members in a short span of text.
 * I opted to do this since she is a child. I was using that format until Brianboulton suggested only her first name be used.
 * Seems reasonable to me. GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  02:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Prose. - "After it hit, Omayra became trapped under her own home's concrete and other debris and could not free herself." "Her own home's" is wordy prose, omit "own" as redundant excess and scan throughout for similar.


 * General
 * Sourcing. - Villegas, Henry (September 2003) has a redlink, I would avoid that. Same with: "written by Eduardo Santa as a response to the eruption"
 * Background
 * Prose. - "and killed many (up to 20,000) of its inhabitants". Consider: "and killed up to 20,000 of its inhabitants", or similar.
 * Linking. - You might want to link "scaremongering".


 * Support. - Well-written, well-researched, and comprehensive. Nice work! GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  00:03, 28 February 2013 (UTC) In progress ... more to come.  GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  23:48, 15 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Should all be fixed. Thanks for the review!  ceran  thor 02:15, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment Support
 * "In all, Omayra suffered for nearly three nights (roughly 60 hours) before she died at approximately 10:05 A.M...". Please give the date of death as well.
 * "Controversy broke out after descriptions of the shortages were released, proving what officials had previously indicated: that they had used the best of their supplies. " Released by the government? The description tallied with what officials indicated previously? If it tallied, then where is the controversy (in this sentence)?
 * I'm not sure how to make this clearer - the controversy was over the shortages and the associated senselessness. Any suggestions?  ceran  thor 17:33, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think I was not reading the sentence properly; I read it a few more times, it sounds ok actually. Sorry for the trouble.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay, awesome.  ceran  thor 20:13, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I think left-aligned image at the start of a section is discouraged (in background section in this version).
 * "Hazard maps showing that Armero would be completely flooded after an eruption were distributed more than a month before the eruption...". Is it coincidental that the hazard maps were distributed merely a month before the eruption? Or, were there signs of a possible eruption there that prompted the distribution of the maps? The maps were distributed among the residents of the town? Also, which agency distributed/generated the maps? If those information are available, can be added. --Dwaipayan (talk) 16:43, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * All added from the main Armero tragedy article. Wasn't sure how much detail that explanation warranted.
 * Thanks! All fixed except the one I noted.  ceran  thor 17:33, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


 * when mentioning the page number of cited reference, the article usually uses pg; however on at least two occasions I saw p. being used (author name Villegas). The style should be consistent within this article. While mentioning page range, using pg style, you are writing pgs. I don't know if this is an acceptable style.
 * I've used pgs before. I will fix that.  ceran  thor 03:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Colombia y Otras Sangres -- this seems to be a book. In that case, page number needs to be mentioned. Indeed this reference is not consistently formatted. --Dwaipayan (talk) 00:31, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Page numbers were not used in the short excerpt I used, unfortunately.  ceran  thor 03:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I did not check for source verification, so cannot comment on that. Otherwise, the article looks very neat, succinct, and comprehensive; meets FA criteria.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Image review
 * File:Omayra_Sanchez.jpg needs details on copyright: when/where was this first published? I think there needs to be a stronger and more detailed FUR too. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I've meant to replace that rationale for months. Will do.  ceran  thor 22:25, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Much better, although "low resolution?" might include an answer. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:22, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Did that.  ceran  thor 20:12, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Support: I reviewed this article in some detail at peer review and I'm satisfied with the responses to the issues I raised there. I was hoping that GabeMc would finish the review begun above, but it's 12 days now... I am happy to support its promotion unless some significant fault is identified. Brianboulton (talk) 23:43, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks to all three of you for your support; it is highly appreciated!  ceran  thor 04:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 07:39, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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