Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ralph Townsend/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 article was not promoted by Ian Rose (talk) 12:08, 11 June 2014 (diff).

Ralph Townsend

 * Nominator(s): CurtisNaito

This article is about the American writer and activist Ralph Townsend. My belief is that this article uses every publicly available source of significance on the subject and so I'm interested in having it built to featured level status.CurtisNaito (talk) 15:40, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Quick comment - The lede is much too long for an article of this length. The whole article is less than 20k characters, while the lede is five paragraphs. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:05, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I made some changes. What do you think of it now?CurtisNaito (talk) 14:28, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Oppose - Hi Curtis, welcome to FAC. I think the best way to approach building this article would be to first try for good article status as a stepping stone for further improvements before trying for FAC. In terms of the featured article criteria, the article unfortunately isn't quite ready yet. For example:
 * All citations should be complete enough to allow someone to easily verify them - for example, articles from periodicals should include page numbers
 * Featured articles need to follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style, which includes such details as correct italicization of publications, correct use of hyphens versus dashes, etc
 * Generally we don't allow non-free book covers on articles not about the books themselves, and the cover image's fair-use rationale is not really strong enough to justify its inclusion here. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:58, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I could fix those things now. For starters I deleted the image, italicized the journal titles, and I think I replaced the hyphens with dashes where necessary. The only thing that won't be possible is the page number for most of the periodicals. Although I do have the page numbers for the Washington Post and New York Times in my notes, most of the time the librarian wouldn't give me the whole page when I requested newspapers articles so I was never able to figure out the precise page number for the large majority of the newspapers. However, these newspapers printed no more than one issue per day so in most cases the date should be sufficient to allow others to locate the article.CurtisNaito (talk) 20:35, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Closing comment -- Unfortunately this review seems to have stalled so I'll be archiving it shortly -- pls take on board the comments that you have received. If you wish to, you can renominate at FAC after a minimum of two weeks have passed from the time this one is archived. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:08, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 12:08, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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