Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Bus Uncle

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 20:25, 7 May 2007.

[edit] The Bus Uncle

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Self nomination: As it stands, the article about the Bus Uncle, Roger Chan Yuet Tung is a Good Article. Last year, it was nominated for FA status, but failed. The major reason was the lack of citations. Anyway, I started improving the article over the last month, in an attempt to reach that level.

I have improved the grammar, rearranged the layout, separated important points into different subsections, added fair use rationales to all 4 pictures and added citations to many paragraphs made in the article (through newspapar articles, magazine articles, radio programs, news reports and even a TV drama episode). I checked the article several times, and couldn't find any flaws. I believe that all criteria are met. Perhaps you can leave some comments on the article.--Kylohk 12:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment The article is written well, but the problem is in the images. If you look closely at the images (Roger's one and Elvis' one) they have been drawn on them. Somehow I think they are edited in Microsoft Paint. New pictures should be replaced, and cameraman's photo must be put in the article. --Jacklau96 13:21, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. Had you not told me, I'd never noticed those odd scribbles at the bottom of the images. I have played some free online videos involving the 3 people, and used PrintScreen to take screenshots of them. Those shots are cropped down to size, and uploaded. Now, they appear to the right hand side of the "Persons Involved" section.--Kylohk 18:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't know whether the videos on Youtube is free or not. You said on the images it is public domain and you made them, but actually the videos are not uploaded by you. This may be a copyright problem. --Jacklau96 12:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

All right, I have changed the copyright tag to that of the screenshot to a film. I have to admit that the definitions can be confusing.--Kylohk 17:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

• I did some clean-up of the inline referencing in the article. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:06, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support - Well referenced, covers almost everything one needs to know about the incident. Completely different from the last failed nom. --:Raphaelmak: [talk] [contribs] 07:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support, but please fix this unnecessary intensification in the lead: Marked: "Not only did the video become a cultural sensation in Hong Kong, it inspired vigourous debate and discussion on lifestyle, etiquette and media ethics." Unmarked: "The video become a cultural sensation in Hong Kong, and inspired vigourous debate and discussion on lifestyle, etiquette and media ethics."
• Plus:
  • "ise" or "ize"? It's inconsistent. My personal preference is for the s, and in Hong Kong, you have a choice.
• "Fong also stated that the reason for the recording"—Remove redundant "also". Same for "The catch phrases also appear on Internet forums,", which shouldn't be a new paragraph.
• Consider "was" rather than "consituted" (x 2).
• "The video clip, though subtitled in English erroneously in parts,"—No, make it "The video clip, although subtitled in English (erroneously in parts),".

Really interesting topic! Tony 23:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your ideas and support. I've standardized the article with British spellings, and removed many "also"s and "not only" redundant words. "Consituted" was replaced by "was" and "be", depending on the position. Brackets have been added to that sentence you mentioned. Cheers.--Kylohk 09:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Support per my comments in the article's peer review in WP:Biography.--Yannismarou 18:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

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