Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Nigel Kneale

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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 promoted 07:46, 15 March 2007.

[edit] Nigel Kneale

Self-nomination. I spent some time last month building the content and references in this article up, as I believe Kneale to be a subject more than worthy of a useful biographical article on Wikipedia. It is a current Good Article, having very recently been promoted after having been nominated by User:LuciferMorgan, one of several users who I asked to proofread the article. Others, User:Josiah Rowe and User:Seegoon, left highly positive remarks about the article on my talk page here and here. The article has also had a recent peer review, here, which attracted useful feedback which I believe I have acted upon. Angmering 16:57, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment: Wow that is an unbelievable number of references relative to article length. Incredible job. —Dark•Shikari[T] 17:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment This article is very text heavy. I suggest it be summarised, and it be supported by tables, (if possible PD-images), a few more images (I know they are FU, but those kind of images will always be copyrighted). Some graphs also could be useful. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Could you give a specific example of what needs to be converted into a graph?--Rmky87 09:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment While I am more than willing to accept that the prose might need cutting down in places, I'm afraid I can't really see how tables or especially graphs might be appropriate? On the subject of images, I was very wary of adding any more Fair Use ones given that it seems there's to be an impending crackdown on these; that was certainly my impression, anyway. Can anyone with more knowledge of the current Fair Use guidelines advise? Angmering 10:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
      • Comment I specifically oppose adding tables - this is an FAC, not an FLC. LuciferMorgan 01:38, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Decent article, well cited, and gives the reader a great insight into Kneale without being POV. LuciferMorgan 14:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Due to travel, I haven't had time to read the article, but the structure looks excellent; perfectly formatted footnotes, no apparent MOS violations, good prose size, well-referenced, etcetera. No obvious problems; just need to find time to read it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Quatermass and Sex Olympics were ahead of their time he was a genius. Good article. Mariegriffiths 23:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support It seems like a fairly decent article: detailed, but doesn't go too in-depth into topics which are covered in other articles. I would just suggest one thing if you want to get a strong support from me: expand on Family a little, it seems to me a little short (especially since it doesn't discuss his parents). But otherwise, you have my support. --JB Adder | Talk 08:44, 14 March 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.