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 SandyGeorgia 15:25, 30 November 2009 [1].


Nominator(s): Cirt (talk) 09:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been through AFD, appeared at DYK, successfully became a GA, and had a peer review. I believe it meets the criteria and I place it here for your consideration. Thank you for your time, Cirt (talk) 09:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Awadewit image clearance moved to talk. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:39, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support on 2c Decline. Fifelfoo (talk) 22:37, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Date format inconsistent Month D, YYYY versus YYYY-MM-DD pick one, stick to it.
fn23 staff author not named / [Staff]. In general with staff, where staff is assumed you should use Square Brackets around the author to indicate assumption. Please correct where you've assumed staff authors rather than the byline indicating staff.
Locations please "The Daily Telegraph" is the name of a number of papers, and the one in London is not notable enough to be obvious without specification. The Times is the only newspaper with that right.
fn23 Hero Complex is an independently published magazine, not a supplement?
Comment This barely meets notability guidelines, the difference between February and May of 2009 being not particularly large in my mind as instances of multiple reportage meaning its more than a flash in the pan. But "Barely" in binary is the same as definitively. Fifelfoo (talk) 10:44, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Responses:
Date formats are now uniform throughout the article, using Month D, YYYY.
Added "staff" field, for this cite. Added square brackets around "staff", where this is assumed, as suggested, above.
Noted location for The Daily Telegraph.
fn23 Hero Complex is a blog published by the Los Angeles Times. Cirt (talk) 12:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 12:01, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Source comments Everything fine. RB88 (T) 01:20, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. :) Cirt (talk) 06:17, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I've been following this page since the very beginning (as I made the Lucian Piane article) so I'm pretty familiar with it. I think it's a brilliant little entry, and it's particularly well sourced. Below are my comments: Thanks Cirt! — Hunter Kahn (c) 01:09, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks very much for the comments, I will respond to these soon. Cirt (talk) 22:07, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Responses to Hunter Kahn
  1. Done. Added requested info to the lede.
  2. From your last edited version [2], ref 9 was [3], this link does not seem to be dead, it works fine for me.
  3. The three different cites at the end of this sentence back up different parts of the sentence.
  4. Done. Added that additional info, as suggested.
  5. The three different cites at the end of the sentence back up different parts of the sentence.
  6. This info actually is in the cited reference. Check the caption in the lower left picture of Bale.

Cirt (talk) 23:57, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you make a good point. I trimmed the See also subsection down by two terms, and incorporated those into the body text of the article. Cirt (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Watching the traffic stats for this article is fascinating! Wikipedia now has an excellent summary of this internet meme. I've copyedited the article a bit and checked all of the sources. The only further change I would recommend is removing the last sentence of the article, which adds very little to the article and relies on two sources that just barely pass WP:V. I wonder of Piane could be persuaded to release the remix under a free license? His 15 minutes are up on that and it could be put into articles like remix, if we had it, which would give him much more publicity. Awadewit (talk) 18:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed that sentence, as recommended. I also contacted Piane, and suggested to him the idea of releasing the remix by a free license. Cirt (talk) 18:34, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Revised that sentence [4].
  2. Found one interesting source - added info from English doctoral student at North Carolina State University, [5].

Cirt (talk) 08:58, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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