Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Post-Modern Prometheus/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 promoted by Ucucha 15:33, 8 September 2012.

The Post-Modern Prometheus

 * Nominator(s): Gen. Quon   (Talk)   18:38, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it meets the FA requirements. This episode is regarded by many critics as one of the best entries the series ever produced, and has been heralded as a classic by many others. "The Post-Modern Prometheus" recently underwent a peer-review and was already promoted to GA status, earlier this year. I feel that it truly is comprehensive: the production section is complete, and the page has sections for filming, themes, broadcast numbers, and critical reception. I have illustrated the article with appropriate pictures, included a screenshot from the episode to illustrate the episode's unique style. To anyone who would like to do a spot-check, I'd be willing to email scans of the books and articles in question. Thank you for looking at this and considering it. Gen. Quon  (Talk)   18:38, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Resolved comments from TBrandley 20:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Source spotcheck
 * FN 23
 * Article: "In a review of the entire fifth season, Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly said that "The Post-Modern Prometheus" was the most striking of the season's stand-alone episodes."
 * Source: "The most striking is The Post-Modern Prometheus, that tongue-in-cheek, black-and-white update of the Frankenstein theme."
 * ✓ Could perhaps do with quoting "most striking" but representation is accurate.
 * Added quotes.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * FN 10
 * Article: "The first five seasons of The X-Files, including "The Post-Modern Prometheus", were filmed in Vancouver. It was the third episode of the program that Carter directed;"
 * Source: "He also decided to direct the episode himself, only the third time he has done so on X-Files."
 * No mention of Vancouver. The X-Files (season 1) might be worth appending to cover this.
 * Fixed this by adding a ref to the next Meisler book.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * FN 2
 * Article (a): Used to support a scene being "fanciful".
 * Article (b): Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club reasons that the ending was not the actual conclusion of the episode, but rather the fanciful and elaborate happy ending that was concocted by Izzy Berkowitz, the writer of the comic book, after talking to Mulder. In this manner, VanDerWeff notes, "the episode abandons logic and reality and, for lack of a better word, transcends."
 * Source: Both supported by article, quote is accurate.
 * FN 16
 * Article: Three citations to various quotes.
 * Source: All quotes used as accurately representative of the source.
 * ✓ I'm thinking that the unusual casing present in the source could be dropped as an acceptable typographic change though.
 * What exactly needs to be dropped?-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Phrases like "Modernity's Naturalism" in the middle of a sentence don't need those capitals; although they're present in the source they're needless and it's acceptable to bring them to lower case instead. GRAPPLE   X  20:12, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Fixed.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Fixed.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Source review (spotchecks above)
 * "Bumpus, Eric; Tim Moranville (2005), Cease Fire, the War Is Over!, Xulon Press, ISBN 978-1597815826" -> Missing OCLC for consistency, also second author is parsed incorrectly.
 * Fixed author, and removed oclc completely, as I can't find this book on Webcat.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * "Hurwitz, Matt; Chris Knowles (2008). The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series the Myths and the Movies. New York, US: Insight Editions. ISBN 1933784725." -> Missing OCLC for consistency
 * Removed oclc completely.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Looking at FN 2 vs FN 10, there's a difference in the punctuation there. FN 2 uses a full stop after the URL, 10 has a comma. Are they both using the same template? I'm not sure what would cause this. 23, 24 and 25 also use commas, the other web sources all seem to use full stops.
 * GRAPPLE  X  19:27, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed the comma issues. It looks like it was using the template "Citation" instead of "cite news".-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   20:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. Prose, source accuracy, the kitchen sink. Great job. GRAPPLE   X  17:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. I made some minor fixes to the article. This article is in a great shape, and is for sure ready for FA status. It is IMO one of Wikipedia's finest. TBrandley 20:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Wondering if an image of the Great Mutato would be more descriptive. Can still talk about the black and white there. Glimmer721  talk  22:41, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. I changed it to Mulder and Scully taking the Great Mutato to the Cher concert so that A) the black and white could be mentioned B) the makeup of the monster could be noted and C) the entire scene and its interpretation by critics could be added.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   18:20, 30 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Quick comment before I go over the whole article: you should standardise whether you use ISBN10 or ISBN13. ISBN13 is preferred, per WP:ISBN. You can use this converter to get the correct ISBNs. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:35, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed!-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   05:28, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Crisco 1492 moved to talk
 * Support on prose, looks peachy. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:04, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Support One of the very best articles related to the entire project. Bruce Campbell (talk) 16:23, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Support While we don't finish the Season 5 GT, let's put an FA into it at least. igordebraga ≠ 02:30, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Workin' on the topic now. ;)-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   04:06, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.  Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the  template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ucucha (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
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