Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Igloo White/archive1

Operation Igloo White
I'm nominating this article for featured article because it is nicely written, and meets all criteria. It also went through a peer review. - Milk's   Favorite   Cookie  22:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems that you have not edited the article before today. It would be difficult, at best, to proceed at FAC without the participation of the article's writers. I have notified User:RM Gillespie, the principle contributor to the article, that it has been nominated here. Maralia (talk) 22:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * "31 channels were assigned to each type of sensor with a 375 kHz (?, certainly not the MHz originally here) separation between each channel." – Is the text within the parentheses needed? It looks like a comment.
 * Reference 32 is self-published. It may be the case that the author of the webpage is an expert on the subject (it looks like they researched Igloo White thoroughly), but I'd still advise that you find another reference for that material.
 * Inconsistent referencing. There are two books by Nalty, but you refer to his books three different ways: "Nalty, p. 11", "Nalty, War Against Trucks, p. 11" and "Nalty, Air Power, p. 11". I was under the impression that the "Nalty, p. 11" references were from Air Power, but then I saw you used a different format in "Nalty, Air Power, p. 11". Please use the same format. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not love) 23:38, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment. I don't think this article can be complete without a little more on the broader cultural context of the operation, e.g., as discussed in Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America&mdash;one of the sources used to put together the article's first incarnation.  This old version has a bit about that perspective, but there is more to be said than that.  Operation Igloo White's relationship to other military automation projects (before and after) all bears more discussion (and if I remember correctly, The Closed World has some material on that as well).--ragesoss (talk) 02:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

RE Nomination
See comment at bottom of my user page as to the principal author's perspective on the FA nomination process, both in general and in particular. FIGMO. RM Gillespie (talk) 02:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)