Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/James Clerk Maxwell

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[edit] James Clerk Maxwell

I'll get the ball rolling then. Basically, I've done some editing over the last few days in an attempt to get this page to FA status. Hopefully this can be completed before the new year. Post any suggestions here or on my talk page and I'll implement them ASAP. Maxwell deserves an FA because he's in the same league as Einstein, Archamedies, and Newton, but not as recognizable by the general public. -- JE.at.UWO^U|_T 19:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

• It looks good, but it needs a lot more in the way of citations. You only reference three sources, and not consistently, more would be helpful and beneficial to the article. --badlydrawnjeff talk 19:17, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, when I started working on it nothing really was referenced. I took out a couple biographies from the library and maybe I can go through and page-reference each point. -- JE.at.UWO^U|_T 19:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

• Object By today's WP:FA standards, virtually no articles with only 3 footnotes (one of which has a typo) will pass WP:FAC (by the way, don’t forget to close the div tag by using </div>, as otherwise the rest of the text below also becomes resized).

(minor) Per WP:MSH, words in headings like "Links" should not be capitalized. Some sparse prose problems too (this is only from the first section, suggest heavier copyediting):

• • James never responded well to the tutor's instruction (who blamed his student for being slow and wayward), and his father after considerable searching, sent James to a day school called the Edinburgh Academy. the second part of the sentence is hard to read through due to the awkard usage of commas. Also, "the tutor's instruction" cannot blame anyone (the tutor himself can though).
  • he won the school's mathematical medal, first prise for English and for English verse. an example of why sometimes we do need the serial comma – this sentence can be interpreted as the mathematical medal were those English prises.
  • This work Oval Curves, was published Why is there a comma?
  • Rather, his genious would slowly mature. Come on, you spel it right futher down the page.
  • The scientist who showed that light is related to electricity and magnetism and that it consists of electromagnetic waves was james Clerk Maxwell. From his electromagnetic theory came the prediction that new forms of radiation would be discovered in the future. This prediction was confirmed by Heinrich Hertz's discovery of radio waves in 1885, the discovery of X-rays in 1895, and the discovery of gamma rays in 1896. Vandalism?? Otherwise, completely misplaced (and james is capitalized :). AZ _t 02:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)