Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harry Everett Smith
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[edit] Harry Everett Smith
Amazing Harry Smith portal... Wiki galore... Exceptional! Zosodada 19:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- Object At a glance, saw this: "Much of his imagery is inspired by Kabbalistic themes such as the Sephirah, which are like musical notes on a staff, -- trivia that Harry would find very important to note here -- and is reflected in his choice of graphics and cover art of the Anthology of American Folk Music." no source... and tone issues unless a very specific source is found confirming he finds it important that people note that fact. Then we have weasel words without a citation, "It is suggested that Harry enjoyed cannabis, LSD, desoxyn and alcohol, occasionally.", stuff like that is to be avoided even in non-FAs. But this is just indicitive of a larger problem, article lacks anywhere near enough citations for a FA and most of the footnotes it does have concern the filmography listing, not the prose where they would be more needed. --W.marsh 15:01, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- Object Nice article on a deserving subject, but not quite FA yet. A quick summary of problems to be worked on: Weasel words, second sentence is redundant, 'Films by Harry Smith' is near half the article lenght and should be cut to a seperate section, headings such as 'The eccentric and bohemian' suggest an editorial bias, footnotes need to be cleaned up, 'electronic recording' is a red link (this area is well documented on WP). Not exceptional yet. + Ceoil 22:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- Opposed. Some good raw material here. One thing I think it needs is an early life/education section: born in Portland, grew up where?, educated where?, first jobs? something that sets the stage for him to become the archivist/film-maker. Semperf 22:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Object - The lead is far too short. The filmography section starts with a mysteriously floating footnote (at least on my screen). The filmography seems to constitute at least half the article. No fair use rationale for the images used. Some sections contain single-sentence paragraphs, which looks bad. Some sections are entirely uncited. In short, this has a lot of work to be done before reaching FA level. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 22:51, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
