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[edit] Thomas Edison

Many world famous inventors and/or scientists have Featured Articles and this one matches up to Featured Article status. It seems to be well written pictures are helpful. Refrences and External links are sufficent. The article is stable and not the target of vandilism.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Felixboy (talk • contribs)

  • If I have time, I may be able to work on this article; but as for now, object. As of now, it is listy, has trivia sections, few footnotes, improper licensing, etc. Not quite Wikipedia's best work. Andy t 20:39, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Object, per Andy. — Wackymacs 11:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose per above. Trivia is never any good. The Disco King 12:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose The article's opening needs to be longer. Also, there should be more of a chronological flow to the article and the subheadings should be shorter. And parcel out the trivia section or just get rid of it. This article needs a lot of re-organization. Tombseye 16:15, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose mostly per Tombseye. The sections need to be rearranged chronologically & certain sections need to be merged. The Trivia section definitely needs to go. All in all, most of the information is already there but it needs to be presented in a much better manner. --Srikeit (Talk | Email) 04:03, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Just a note, the Trivia section is now gone, I reordered the sections, merged Improvements into Tributes, prosified the Tributes, and fixed the image license tag. Andy t 19:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
      • Good work Andy, but now those red links need to be fixed, and the article needs to be seriously expanded, there just isn't enough information in the first place. I also dislike the List of contributions section. — Wackymacs 20:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Object: Good article but not FA quality yet. The flow of the text isn't great and some areas could use a little more information, especially the section about his childhood. --Nebular110 16:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)