Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2003 and before
Created FAC from original nomination here.
- Korean name. Nominated by Taku 05:09, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Added by Kingturtle on 08:28, 5 October 2003
Created FAC from original nomination here.
- Heavy metal music - strikes me as in-depth, comprehensive, and good at explaining the significance of a genre that sometimes doesn't get much respect. Smerdis of Tlön 04:34, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Added by Kingturtle on 08:28, 5 October 2003
Created FAC from original nomination here.
- Sperm Whale. I liked researching this. I might (read 'am') be biased too! Pete 13:03, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
- I second. Needs a final proofread though. JDG
- Nothing is ever final around here :) However, User:Wiwaxia has cast an critical copyediting eye over the article and made several substantial improvements. Pete 14:44, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I second. Needs a final proofread though. JDG
Recreated from original FAC here.
- Lollapalooza - Great article. --mav
16:10, 12 October 2003
(Page created from original nomination here.) 08:28, 5 October 2003
- Law of Demeter. Nominated by User:TakuyaMurata. RickK 03:44, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
FAC created from original nomination here.
- Miles Davis -- I like it, but I wrote it. Funro research too, some records there I haven't heard in ages -- GWO
09:16, 21 October 2003
Created FAC from original nomination here - clear descriptions of the sounds, understandable by laymen (non-linguists). Shows how the language spread. Uses public figures to illustrate the varieties of speech. 169.207.90.173 10:35, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC) -- It was thrilling to learn that the rhotic accent was in fact the accent of 1600-era English, and which survives as the standard Midwestern accent of the US. 169.207.85.74 13:32, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Garry Kasparov -- fun for anyone. comprehensive up the wazoo. Kingturtle 05:50, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Headlines and a TOC, please.—Eloquence 06:55, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)
- I have addressed this objection. I support adding this article whether the headings I added are kept or not. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 13:26, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Lots of info, but not "brilliant prose." moink 23:03, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- This has already been added, if you want to remove it, provide some more explanation, remove it from Wikipedia:Brilliant prose and add it to #Recently removed articles, and reason for removal on this page.—Eloquence 23:11, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
- Comments along these lines have been made before... Maybe we could have a Wikipedia:Great articles page which could replace the BP page to de-emphasize the "prose" and re-emphasize that we write encyclopedia articles? If this is done, we should wait til after the refresh on administrative grounds. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 10:40, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- I (unsuccessfully) tried to get some feedback for a possible page rename on the wikien-l mailing list last Friday
- I would agree with that. It seems people nominate things for this page based on content, not on whether or not it's well written. And of course, it makes sense to recognize good content, but it's disheartening to see some of these listed as "brilliant prose" when they're pretty humdrum. moink 23:05, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Headlines and a TOC, please.—Eloquence 06:55, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
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See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
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Was added to Brilliant prose by Larry Sanger on 26 May 2001, 08:00:45. I currently see no record of it having ever been demoted since.
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
Recreated FAC from original nomination here.
- Aztalan State Park: I put in an article on an area park which is a midwest Native American town going back over a millennium, making it pretty unique. Included some minor bits that were the result of my own firsthand observation. And if I only had a digital camera.... -- John Owens 23:14 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Chariot racing - of course I am biased, but I am proud of this anyway :) Adam Bishop
- I'll second. Great work! -- Jim Regan 04:02 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Excellent! --Menchi 21:47, Aug 28, 2003 (UTC)
- Very good ! -- May I suggest to add "Chariot racing in films" (Ben Hur for instance).
- Good idea...but aside from the Ben Hurs and Gladiator, what else are there? (I can't think of any, that I have seen anyway.) Adam Bishop 00:17, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
From original nomination. Was promoted by Cimon Avaro 22:43, 28 August 2003
(Page recreated from original nomination here)
The prose in this informative article seems to flow very naturally considering it has had 20 or more different contributors. No glaring omissions spring to mind either. (Full disclosure: I added one sentence to the article in one minor edit sometime ago, however the credit for this article belongs to several major contributors, I am not one of these). Pete 18:17, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Recreated FAC from original nomination here.
- Bathing machine -- Never knew this existed before (you silly Britons!). Nice read! --mav
- Seconded. --Eloquence 23:06 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- In agreement. --Polaris999 08:04 19 Jul 2003 (UTC
Recreating FAC from original nom here.
- Damascus steel and pattern welding -- lovely. -- The Anome 13:07 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- **Second both. Not just nice articles, but also nicely hammered out. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 15:30 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Recreating FAC from original nom here.
- Damascus steel and pattern welding -- lovely. -- The Anome 13:07 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- **Second both. Not just nice articles, but also nicely hammered out. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 15:30 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Schizophrenia became a Featured Article before the current voting system was in place. It got added to Wikipedia:Featured articles (then called "brilliant prose") on 21 August 2003, with the nomination:
- Schizophrenia - this article has been polished to a shine as expert editors have at last arrived (full disclosure: I've made a couple of very minor edits to this article, but the credit for this article belongs to the many other major contributors)-- The Anome 07:44 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- I'll second this. It's getting there. =-) Alex.tan 18:39 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Recreated from original FAC here.
- White Rose - i found it very well written and it gives information about an important topic: not all germans where nazis... Muriel Gottrop 14:43 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Created FAC from original nomination here.
Created FAC from original nom here.
- Same-sex marriage and linked pages - seems fairly complete and accurate to me. --Eloquence 22:56 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Discussion copied from here.
- Galileo Galilei - very easy to read. very informative. thorough, yet not dull. Kingturtle 05:08, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Can't second (contributor), but will say this: User:Dandrake, who has done a lot of work on this one, is the son of Galilei biographer Stillman Drake, and very knowledgeable about the subject.—Eloquence 06:55, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)
- Reading between the lines, I think you are fishing for a seconder :). I am happy to oblige as it looks like a very good page. Pete 08:21, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Can't second (contributor), but will say this: User:Dandrake, who has done a lot of work on this one, is the son of Galilei biographer Stillman Drake, and very knowledgeable about the subject.—Eloquence 06:55, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)
The quote by Andrew Dickson White seriously distorts the position of the Church and particularly of Cardinal Bellarmine, whom he caricatures as "by far the most terrible champion" of anti-scientific dogmatism who "insisted on making science conform to Scripture." On the contrary, Bellarmine went out of his way to conciliate Galileo. His Letter to Fr Foscarini, which was intended primarily for Galileo, said: "If there were a real proof that the Sun is in the centre of the universe, that the Earth is in the third sphere, and that the Sun does not go round the Earth but the Earth round the Sun, then we should have to proceed with great circumspection in explaining passages of Scripture which appear to teach the contrary, and we should rather say that we did not understand them than declare an opinion to be false which is proved to be true. But I do not think there is any such proof since none has been shown to me." Galileo merely replied that it was pointless giving proofs because his opponents would not be able to understand them. Bellarmine's attitude was actually more scientific, as the term is understood today, than Galileo's.
- Stephen Hitchings (211.30.198.140) 01:49, April 13, 2005
See original promotion of article on 20:52, 8 Oct 2003. Article originally nominated by User:Gareth Owen on October 8, 2003, see nomination.