Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Asser

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The article was promoted 21:24, 28 April 2007.

[edit] Asser

Passed GA; I have since copyedited and reorganized to try to improve flow and quality of prose. I think it's fairly thoroughly sourced and feel it's ready to try to get to FA status. Thanks for all comments. Mike Christie (talk) 03:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• At first glance the lead would need to be expanded twice or maybe thrice to satisfy WP:LEAD. Isn't there an image (carving, figure, drawing, painting, whatever) of him you could put to illustrate the article? --Ouro (blah blah) 06:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I have expanded the lead somewhat; sorry -- I meant to do that before I nominated. Take a look and see if you think it's an improvement. As for an image, I know of nothing depicting Asser himself, and I am sure there's nothing that even claims to be an accurate depiction. There was an image of a book cover showing a Penguin edition of the Life, but I replaced it with the manuscript image after discussion with a GA reviewer. Mike Christie (talk) 11:23, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I will try to take an in-depth look tomorrow, Mike, I didn't have time today. Cheers, Ouro (blah blah) 20:07, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• It ssems quite good to me. I like the discussion of the manuscript sources. One request though, I would like to see the shelfmark of the Cotton manuscript listed, even though it is no longer extant, it is still an important part of identifying the manuscript. Dsmdgold 14:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I should have thought of that. I've added it, with some minor associated copyediting. Mike Christie (talk) 01:11, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Support now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsmdgold (talk • contribs)

• Comment: Cite 17 seems to be broken; it's trying to find <Ref Name=CE_Asser>, but there's no other cite with this name. Laïka 11:18, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. Took me a second to figure it out; the first cite was meant to be named that, so it's just a reuse of the first Catholic Encyclopedia cite. Mike Christie (talk) 11:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no further comments, so Support. You could add Persondata to the article, but it's completely optional, and as his date/place of birth and his place of death are unknown, it may not work that well with this article. Laïka 11:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Support Nice work. Compact, informative, interesting. Meets FA criteria.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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