Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H./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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 02:00, 23 January 2017.

The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

 * Nominator(s): —Bruce1eetalk 10:21, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

This article is about George Steiner's controversial 1981 literary and philosophical novella in which Adolf Hitler (A.H.) is found alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II. It is currently a GA and has recently been peer reviewed. I believe it meets the FA criteria, but I'm open to any comments/suggestions. —Bruce1eetalk 10:21, 26 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Source review—
 * Wouldn't "The Prince of Asturias Foundation" be the name of the publisher of the source in note 18, instead of the name of the published work containing the source? I'd check other cases, like "University of Wisconsin" in note 26 to see if other situations call for switching from a work to a publisher.
 * I've changed "work" to "publisher" in those cites, plus a couple of others I found. —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Per the spirit and guidance at WP:OVERLINK, usually we'd only link a newspaper name once in the footnotes, that being the first time it's cited. So notes 19 and 20 don't need The New York Times linked because it is so in note 3. Check others to see if they're affected as well.
 * Fixed. —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * In the works cited section, I wouldn't use double quotes around the name of the novella when it's repeated within the title of the Burton article. The Chicago Manual of Style would say that you should italicize a title within a title if that title is normally rendered in italics. (If it's normally rendered in quotation marks, dropping them to single quotes from double would be the appropriate action.)
 * Fixed. —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * State names as a part of a location are usually dropped when that same state name is part of the university publisher. In this case, you can safely use "Bloomington: Indiana University Press" instead of "Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press".
 * Fixed. —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * In reading through the sources, all appear to be high-quality, reliable sources as needed for a Featured Article. In short, just a little polishing and you have your citations at the FA level.
 * If this review was helpful, you may want to review other nominations, like mine to help out other nominators.  Imzadi 1979  →   04:32, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Prose review—ok, I'm giving the article a full read, and I have just a few minor copy editing suggestions:
 * "...were reworked from these earlier works" maybe "were reused.. or "...earlier books" just to avoid "reworked ... works"?
 * I've replaced "reworked" with "drawn". —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't there be a matching comma after the title in "...memoir, Errata: An Examined Life Steiner..."?
 * You're right, I've added a comma. —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The rest of the text looks good to me, and I'm inclined to support promotion with those two points cleared up unless anyone else finds something I've overlooked.  Imzadi 1979  →   05:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for picking up this nomination, and for your useful suggestions – I've addressed the issues you raised. I'll have a look at your nomination, although highways is not my area of expertise; I'd rather tackle subjects that I'm familiar with. —Bruce1eetalk 09:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Comment: suggest installing the Harverrors script, as many of your reference links are broken. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that – I've fixed the broken links with "ref=harv" in the cites. —Bruce1eetalk 06:34, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Coord note -- sorry but with no commentary for over three weeks this nom seems to have stalled, so I'll be archiving it shortly; the FAC list is particularly long at the moment but after the customary two-week wait the article may well have a little less competition for reviewer time. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:00, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 02:00, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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