Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ben Thompson/archive1

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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 06:03, 17 February 2007.

[edit] Ben Thompson

  • Support- Excellent writing about a historical character. I'm not a vandal...have a look at the article a lot has been written by me. Also I removed the FAC but someone added it again. Also, I admit that I did some minor vandilism on the page but only as a quick joke to the person who i know who made the page. I knew he would remove it instantly. That persons name is also Ben Thomson. --TheEditor20 15:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Oppose- Not worth wasting time reviewing it here. Give it a peer review and send it to GA. The references are terrible to start with, it doesn't have a lot of polish, and the lead section is non existant. See WP:LEAD.-BiancaOfHell 14:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
So I think hell just lost one of its flames :) It seems TheEditor20 (talk • contribs • logs) was just a vandal though. darkliight[πalk] 15:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose see WP:LEAD and WP:WIAFA. The lead is only one sentence to begin with, there's a lot of good raw material there though. Quadzilla99 19:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Lead was expanded,[1] as currently inline citations have become an unofficial policy (why aren't they added to WP:WIAFA yet?) I technically don't oppose on those grounds. However it is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia and I feel the small sections, Serving as City Marshal for Austin, Texas and Thompson's will & property, should just folded into After prison and Murder respectively. Also Murder should be changed to Death. In addition the lead and as mentioned the prose could use work. Quadzilla99 04:41, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose. WP:LEAD. --Oldak Quill 22:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Refer to peer review --Peta 23:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.