Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Rainbow

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The organisation of this article is horrible. All of the scientific information is condensed in the introduction, while the body part is for rainbows references in culture. CG 12:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Remove. Poor organization, and the science section is incomplete -- no mention of what causes supernumary rainbows. There's also a surplus of photos, and the "popular culture" section shouldn't be lists. --Carnildo 22:16, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

• Remove as per Carnildo (emphasis on poor organisation!). Also, inline citation is radically inadequate and poorly done when it is included. The article could be brought back up to FA standard with some TLC but it is undeserving in its current state... Mikkerpikker 23:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

• Remove, per Carnildo. -- Hurricane Ericarchive -- my dropsonde 03:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Some extra headings were added by Nuj on 6 January to improve the seggregation of information. It currently has an adequate lead (although it could expand into another paragraph), then scientific explanation and history, then mythology and religion, then literature, and finally mnemonics. What else would you suggest to improve organisation?

Are there any particular photos that you think are unnecessary (since this is a visual phenomenon, doesn't it make sense to show several examples?).

I'll try to add an explanation of supernumary rainbows and turn the "Popular culture" section (presumably you are referring to the one currently called "Rainbows in religion and mythology", which has its own sub-page at [Rainbows in mythology]]?) into prose in the next few days. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

The article seems to have turned into a "my favorite rainbow picture" collection, sort of like what keeps happening to Cat. I'd suggest keepign all the diagrams, and reducing the photos to Image:Double Rainbow.jpg to illustrate double rainbows, Image:Supernumerary rainbow 03 contrast.jpg to illustrate supernumerary rainbows, Image:Rainbows.jpg to illustrate reflected rainbows, Image:TakakkawFalls2.jpg as an example of a waterfall creating a rainbow, and either Image:Regenbogen-gesamt.jpg or Image:Regenbogen Zürichsee.jpg as the lead image. --Carnildo 22:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Right - I have put most of the images in a gallery at the end, prosified the listy section, and added an explanation of supernumary rainbows, and, as mentioned before, someone else dealt with headings. It even has (one) inline citation now ;) Is that better? (And I wish some other people would try to help our poorly FA rather than just saying "remove per nom". It sometimes feels like no-one else cares about our content if they have not written it themselves.) -- ALoan (Talk) 21:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the gallery. Commons already has a gallery with those pictures, and many more as well. --Carnildo 00:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough: you are right; I thought that is where we may end up. The German page (de:Regenbogen) is actually very good: I shall try to translate the relevant parts into our page (rainbow flag and rainbows in art are obvious missing pieces, as well as mentions for other phemomena such as the glory and fog bow). -- ALoan (Talk) 01:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)