Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Panama Canal/archive1

Panama Canal
I self nominated this as a candidate because the article explains rather well the details, current problems and history of one of the largest man-made waterways in the world. Raskolnikov The Penguin 15:54, 2005 July 19 (UTC)
 * Refer to peer review--no references section. Also, on a quick read-through, the article is somewhat lacking in detail--for example, it fails to note any controversy over the treaty under which the U.S. surrendered control of the canal. Meelar (talk) 15:58, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with above. Apart from not having any general references, the article has specific unsourced quotations which need sourcing.  Morwen - Talk 16:19, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Support contingent on the resolution of Meelar and Morwen's objections. Good work, Raskolnikov. Tracing the history is not an easy task, especially in the space and organizational constraints of an encyclopedia article, and your work is a comprehensive overview. 172 | Talk 18:48, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Object
 * The image Image:Panama Canal Locks.jpg does not have copyright information.
 * The images Image:Stamp-ctc-panama-canal-opens.jpg and Image:Panama canal.png are claimed as fair use. Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia, it is a free content encyclopedia, so fair use images should be avoided if at all possible.
 * --Carnildo 19:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * For everyone's info, I recently came back from Panama and took WAY TOO MANY PICTURES of the Panama canal and placed them in the Commons. Most of them were so similar that I only bothered to put the ones I liked the most.  You may want to take a look at them in case they are useful to the article.  Especially the pictures Image:Ship passing through Panama Canal 02.jpg and Image:Ship passing through Panama Canal 01.jpg may be useful, even though there is already a picture of the Miraflores locks.  There is no picture of the little trains that guide the boats though, as in Image:Trains guiding boats at Panama Canal.jpg.  If slightly different shots are needed, I can see what I can find if you leave a message on my talk page. On other critiques, couldn't there be more on the French attempt at the canal (especially with the panama scandals article being as small as it is), on the exacerbation of the disease problem during construction when they believed the disease to be spread by rats and dug water-filled trenches around all the beds which only increased the mosquito population, and on the economic impact of the canal on the country currently?  Some of it may be unncessary, but these are just suggestions.  - Dozenist  talk  03:06, 20 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Refer to peer review - an excellent start, but it needs references; it seems rather choppy in places, with one sentence paragraphs; and the lead section is too short. -- ALoan (Talk) 22:33, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I added a reference section and edited the return to Panama part (anonymously, I didn't see I wasn't logged in), also referred it to peer review, I'll work on the picture related problems.  Raskolnikov The Penguin 00:29, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * Why are you putting this article on FAC and peer review at the same time?Borisblue 01:44, 20 July 2005 (UTC)