Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Book of Abraham/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 review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 22:34, 10 January 2007.

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Book of Abraham

This article reached GA in August 2006 and has been very stable since then. I submit this article for anyone to make comments and state whether it is worthy of FA or not. It went through two peer reviews and no one commented on it. Considering that it is a controversial topic, maybe I should be happy that there were no comments? --RelHistBuff 06:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. I'm not sure what's wrong with the article, but something about it does not sit right. It strikes me that the organization might need some rethinking. Perhaps start with the a description of the text itself and its contents, which seem to me underdeveloped; then the place in Mormon theology (which could be further elaborated); then an origins section, which lays out Smith's claims, then the rediscovery of the rolls, scholarly analysis, mormon apologetics. Finally, I can't figure out what those images are. Are those Josephus Smith's versions (as he published them), or from the papyrus? Can you get pictures of both side-by-side? The apologetics section now is in point form, which makes it look like students' notes, rather than a good article. note 4: is mormonwiki a WP:RS? My guess is the references should be looked at. Semperf 06:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks. Finally some feedback. OK, I see your points on underdeveloped parts, i.e., text/contents and its place in overall theology. I will try to work out a better reordering of the sections once I worked on those two. I tried to make it clear that the figures are from the book as sections 1-3 cover the "Book of Abraham", while sections 4-5 cover the "papyrus". --RelHistBuff 07:01, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. 'Content of the Book of Abraham' section is way too short, merge with another section or expand it. Lead needs references. Ref formatting looks inconsistent. — Wackymacs 14:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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