Portal:Vancouver/Biographies/Vote

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VOTE for the Showcase Biography of the Vancouver Portal for February 2007:

If nominating a new article, please add {{VP Showcase|media=biography}} to the said article's talk page. This will also include the page into Category:VP Showcase candidates.

Showcase Biographies of the Vancouver Portal must qualify within three criteria:

  1. relevant to Vancouver.
  2. well written. Preferably, one on WikiProject Vancouver's A biography list.
  3. interesting.

Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators. Once an article is selected, the {{VP Showcase}} template will be replaced with {{VP Showcase2}}.

[edit] Nominations

[edit] Example 1

(Reason) - (Signed)

  • Support - (reason) - (signed)
  • Oppose - (reason) - (signed)

[edit] August 2007

[edit] Chilliwack (band)

Good article class rating. Chilliwack (band) started in Vancouver. SriMesh | talk 01:56, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak Support - Perhaps a joint article about the band a more on Bill Henderson and his Juno win in 1982. Mkdwtalk 02:50, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007

[edit] Dr. John Blatherwick

Vancouver Coastal's Medical Health Officer is retiring. Noted as one of Canada's trailblazing public health advocates. Not many links to this article but possible expansion with SARS, Bill Vander Zalm, safe injection site, etc. Article could still use work. It has been dormant for some time but I added content today so consider it a self-nom. Canuckle 21:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

SupportThe only nom for June, let me pass it right now for myself. There's no more time to talk about this. The only nomination has to work. Anyways, this man sounds worth honouring. --Canadianshoper 05:20, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose, I'd rather see a previous article go into the rotation. The article suggested has no real interesting facts to it, no images, and has very little information about the person in general. I'd consider changing my vote if more work was done to the article. Mkdwtalk 02:47, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] March 2007

[edit] Sam Sullivan

Our mayor. Langara College 21:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak Support, Well we dont have anything else for March. Mkdwtalk 22:15, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] February 2007

[edit] Ernest Smith

Well known Canadian. Recipient of the Victoria Cross, Canadian Forces Decoration, member of the Order of Canada and Order of British Columbia. He was the last living Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia and enlisted in Vancouver. Mkdwtalk 07:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other comments

[edit] January 2007

etc.

[edit] Other comments

[edit] Pauline Johnson

Interesting subject, substantial article. It could use some polishing, but it's very good shape relative to the articles in our purview. Some formatting work wouldn't take too long, and it's got a lovely photograph. - (Bobanny 22:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC))

  • Weak Oppose Support The article lacks sources in the latter half of the article, in specific the 'Literary and stage history'. I agree it is an interesting read, but it would be nice to have more pictures to go along with the text. Mkdwtalk 00:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • ..hmm...well, it's still over a month til the final decision on this needs to be made; I agree it could use more photos, and i'll try and scare some up (shouldn't be hard, as they would all be public domain anyway).
As for the sources, I'm not sure what you mean that they are lacking; there's several cites in most sections and nearly every paragraph. None of them are internet sources though (in the non-Wiki world, that's a good thing) so it's hard to check them out, but no alarm bells go off for me.
The style is MLA in-text, which is acceptable and what English departments usually prefer, and who normally study this stuff. If this is an issue (for anyone, not just Mkdw) the actual Wikipedia policy is that the templates are not mandatory, and that the format is a matter for the editors of an article to decide, but, it's a big faux pas to change an acceptable style that's already in place. I'm guessing this was done up by an English major.
Admittedly, I haven't gone through the text with a fine-tooth comb, so I can only defend this article so far, but it still seems to me that there are only minor issues outstanding. In the meantime, I'll do what I can to turn your weak oppose to a strong support (smear campaign, threats, give you lots of barnstars, that sort of thing [kidding! hehe, uhh, yeah.])Bobanny 01:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I missed the citations on my first quick glance over. I know the MLA style is an acceptable university standard, but with wikipedia its difficult to ensure the quality of your sources. I'm sure this article is fine, but for those who don't know, using a template allows the quick and easy usage of jumping from text, down to the references, and back up. Also the template requests other information such as a book's ISBN. The MLA style was not truly intended for the internet or the 'modern' age ironically, and would be nice to see wikipedia use the most advanced forms of citations, especially if we have the ability to use them. Mkdwtalk 11:21, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I did some more work on it today, and it has now been through a peer review and has also been nominated as a Good Article candidate. Bobanny 06:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other comments

There are some nice biographies in the archive. Why can't they randomly rotate into the portal when there is not a current monthly nomination to make the portal look completed whilst awaiting a new nom. SriMesh | talk 01:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)