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[edit] Forth

• Previous nomination

Self-nom. This article has had major edits and restructuring since the last nomination, and most importantly now has citations, about one per section. Ideogram 07:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

• Object Getting there, but still has entire subsections without inline references. If you need to repeat a reference, you can use <ref name="name">reference</ref> the first appearance, and <ref name="name" /> after that. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 12:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

There is now exactly one subsection without inline references, not counting the Code examples section. If this is not satisfactory, please let me know. Ideogram 22:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I feel it could be better referenced. One per subsection is sort of a minimum... ideally, there should be a citation for every fact, which might be around one per paragraph, maybe more. I can help with this, if you aren't in a hurry. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 18:08, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

That would be really great. I'm not good at looking up references. And yes, I can wait. Ideogram 18:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. Peacock terms and POV problems with the article. I have noted them down for the first section in the article. Find and correct for all sections. See WP:PEACOCK and WP:WTA for details. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I have made a first pass at this. See what you think. Ideogram 20:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Improvements are satisfactory. Please take note of other suggestions. Also, try to get references for unsourced statements. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 20:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I have obtained references for the unsourced statements.

• • Also, the cite templates are inconsistantly used. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:48, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I believe all the cites are consistent now, with one exception; there was a special issue of BYTE Magazine devoted to Forth, and I don't know how to cite a magazine. Right now it's using {{Harvard reference | Surname= | Given= | Authorlink= | Title=The Forth Language | Journal=BYTE Magazine | Volume=5 | Issue=8 | Year=1980 | Page= }} but it doesn't look right. Ideogram 22:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. This article has just been awarded Good Article status. Ideogram 04:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Object to title. Given that River Forth and Firth of Forth are quite well-known features of Scottish geography, I think the article should be at Forth (programming language). 87.122.53.184 15:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The article has been in existence since November of 2001, so this objection is coming rather late. That said, a disambiguation article already exists (and is pointed to by Forth). For that matter, Forth programming language (which uses the Wikipedia standard naming for programming language articles) already exists too, it just redirects to Forth. --Allan McInnes (talk) 19:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)