Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Frederick Russell Burnham

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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 01:38, 29 September 2007.

[edit] Frederick Russell Burnham

Burnham was an American scout, explorer, adventurer, and Major in the British Army who was also one of the prime inspirations for Scouting, the world's largest youth movement. We have steadily worked the last 1-2 months improving this article and we hereby nominate it.Rlevse 14:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

• Support. The few grammar mishaps I stumbled upon are minor and easy to fix, not something a regular reader would notice. I'll drop in some fixes. Also, each para is referenced, and although I have to defer to experts for accuracy of the facts, this looks like a solid article. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support. per MGM.Sumoeagle179 11:39, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support. The article provides an intriguing, well referenced, overview of a fascinating character--a real soldier of fortune. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Travelengal (talk • contribs) 03:31, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Well detailed and referenced article. Cla68 23:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• Support This is an excellent article - informative, fully cited, and well written. Good work by all those involved. --Xdamr^talk 16:36, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
• Please copy edit. I found three spots that could be improved; there are probably more. A good pair of eyes that haven't seen the article before would be very useful. Please be brief and use the active voice; and avoid any turn of phrase you are used to seeing in print. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  • • We took a shot at this. You might need to be more specific. Thanks for the edits.
  • If the assassination of Kitchener is Burnham's account, say so in the text. It's not the standard version.
    • It is Duquesne's account, changed to "claimed".
  • Did you really check the New York Times for 1910? If not, please use the source actually consulted, perhaps with a note citing the New York Times of April 17, 1910: "May import African animals to solve meat problem".
    • Actually, yes. The newspaper cites were all found in ProQuest Historical Newspapers
      • Added link to PDF of article. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 11:06, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  • It would help to redo the footnotes to the standard method: one footnote per sentence, which may contain multiple sources. Since Richard Harding Davis, for example, is in the references, it is enough to say Davis, p. xx in each note. Please include page numbers for Davis, unless its all on p.192 (in which case the note should say so) or his index is better than we have any reason to expect; separate notes will permit this. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:57, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
    • I'll remove the reference to p.192 in Davis' book. However, this book is found online in both Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, so I'm not sure a page cite is appropriate -- online sources don't usually keep page numbers.
      • This is a real, if minor, problem. It is hard to verify references in an online source, even one presented in bulk as Gutenberg does, without some clue where in the text you mean; and some readers will check a hardcopy of the book. Chapter numbers would help.

For more details, see User_talk:Ctatkinson#Response_to_Septentrionalis_FAC_questions.Rlevse 10:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

In general, I meant the edit summary "not quite yet". This is an excellent article, copiously researched; it needs a copyedit by someone who hasn't seen it, but the rest are points of detail. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 13:38, 28 September 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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.