Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Eaton (RAAF officer)/archive1

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 by SandyGeorgia 23:34, 25 January 2010 [1].

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Charles Eaton (RAAF officer)

Nominator(s): Ian Rose (talk) 00:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

• Featured article candidates/Charles Eaton (RAAF officer)/archive1

Another RAAF character known not only for his exploits in the air—which were considerable—but also for his post-military career and for never being afraid to speak his mind, comparable perhaps to fellow Group Captain John Lerew. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

• Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support - Well structured and well written. Would be nice to create an article for the red-linked No. 72 Wing RAAF before becoming FA, and remember that punctuation marks go inside quotation marks. —Eustress ^talk 20:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Thanks Eustress. No. 72 Wing RAAF is certainly on my list (and No. 79 Wing RAAF). I was under the impression that only complete sentences required the punctuation within the quotes, but if I've not followed that rule I'm happy to alter. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:51, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
    • After further review regarding quotation punctuation, I learned that Wikipedia uses logical quotation, so the article is probably just fine (see WP:LQ). —Eustress ^talk 21:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

• Support - I supported this article during its A-Class review and was impressed with its high standard and quality then. Since that time, the article has been improved even further and I have no reservations in endorsing the article's elevation to Featured status. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 10:09, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

• Support This is a great article which easily meets the FA criteria. The excellent choice of photos is worthy of particular praise. Nick-D (talk) 09:45, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Tks Nick, and I appreciate the notice of the images, particularly as one is from me 'ole Dad's collection when he was one of those first five Wirraway pilots into Darwin, fortunately of course not the one that crashed (somewhere I have a letter to Mum where he talks about the "awful luck" of inexperienced young aircrew flying brand new and unfamiliar aircraft across the length of Australia and coming to grief at the very last moment, and noting "you didn't hear about it in the newspapers")...
  • At the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth though, can you just check the query on the article talk page to do with the alterations to the Southern Command passage? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:45, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
    • Done. Nick-D (talk) 22:06, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

• Support A very nice article on a very interesting man. I do have two small points however 1) Image caption "Wing Commander Eaton (left) during coal strike in Darwin, 1940" - should that be "the coal strike" 2) Do we know any more about his first world war service with the London Regiment - when did he go to France and what engagements did he participate in? Do we know which battalion he served with? Otherwise excellent.--Jackyd101 (talk) 19:03, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Tks Jacky: 1) I avoided the definite article because I'm not sure there wasn't more than one coal strike in Darwin around that time...! 2) Added a bit more along the lines you suggested. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:01, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Note: no image review. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:26, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

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