Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Shield of the Trinity/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 15:55, 26 July 2007.

Shield of the Trinity
Ver informative article and of great encyclopedic value. It is very well writen and it has alot of good images. Bewareofdog 04:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. No inline citations. Needs a complete reference list rather than "selected references". GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 15:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

As the main author of the page, I haven't attempted to strictly conform to featured article standards, since that would appear to involve expending a large amount of effort in jumping through technicalistic hoops, without a correspondingly large improvement in article quality as a result. By the way, the 1982 Michael Evans journal article is pretty much the only source I have been able to turn up (after moderately intensive research) which is mainly devoted to the "Shield of the Trinity" diagram -- otherwise, the diagram seems to fall between the cracks of different subject areas, and information about it is dispersed in small little dribs and drabs here and there... There's also an article Das "Scutum fidei christianae magistri Hieronymi Pragensis" in der Entwicklung der mittelalterlichen trinitarischen Diagramme by František Šmahel in a book "Die Bildwelt der Diagramme Joachims von Fiore: Zur Medialität religiös-politischer Programme im Mittelalter" (edited by Alexander Patschovsky, 2003), which I haven't been able to access; that might throw some light on the use of the diagram beyond England and France, but I doubt that it would alter the conclusions of the article in any very significant way... AnonMoos 19:49, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * P.S. In case I wasn't clear, that's one of the reasons why the article now has a "selected references" section -- if instead there was an unannotated alphabetized list of all sources consulted for the writing of the article, then people attempting to find more information on the subject would be driven nuts by the fact that a great number of such references would have only one or two sentences on the Shield of the Trinity diagram (often rather tangential to the discussion of some other subject).  I only included in the "selected references" section works which have some substantial connected discussion of the diagram and/or documentation of its historical attestation. AnonMoos 15:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.