Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harpy Tomb/archive1

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The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 21:41, 26 July 2010 [1].

Harpy Tomb edit

Featured article candidates/Harpy Tomb/archive1

I am nominating this for featured article because I believe it now meets the FA criteria. This is a work of art from Lycia, an area whose history and culture is currently not well covered in Wikipedia, hopefully this article will encourage more and fill in some of the redlinks. SpinningSpark 13:50, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: This article is eligible for the Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Featured Article prize. I'll comment later. Johnbod (talk) 14:05, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I should have declared that myself. SpinningSpark 15:48, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment—no dab links, no dead external links, but please proofread the article; I noticed a comma splice ("The Lycian language is not Greek, it is related ...") and a typo (visisted) in the first few paragraphs. Ucucha 18:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support ~~Comments~~

Cites 20 and 32 need page #s.
References need place of publication
If an ISBN isn't available then an OCLC # or somesuch should be provided.
Titles of references should be capitalized as per MOS
Copyrights on photos look good.
I'm certainly no expert of classical archaeology, but the content looks good.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:19, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is now all dealt with except for cite 32 which is intended to reference the entire book and thus does not need page numbers. The reason that Fellows' publications were not capitalised was that I was treating them as individual articles rather than books, they were also in quotes rather than italics for the same reason. Not sure that I can entirely justify this so I have complied with the request. SpinningSpark 18:58, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- You can't find one place in his book referencing that statement? The whole book is a bit broad, IMO, but I'm not going to worry about it too much.

You misunderstand, the reference is the book which led to the British Museum commissioning Fellows. The whole book describes Fellows' travels in Lycia. SpinningSpark 19:06, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FA Criteria 3 met Fasach Nua (talk) 18:18, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments beginning a read-through now and will make straightforward copyedits as I go. Please revert if I inadvertently change the meaning. I'll jot queries below: Casliber (talk · contribs) 15:16, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I've just scanned the lead and it could do with a copyedit. I need to sleep now so will look tomorrow some time, but you need to reduce the repetition of common words. I am not sure this is do-able in the time frame here. I think running this through GAN might have been prudent. I'll continue with some specifics below.

GAN seems pretty gummed up at the moment. At the time, I had four articles stuck in GAN since 22nd May - some are still waiting for reviews now - so I put it through Peer Review instead. SpinningSpark 16:14, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A quick look through some other bits suggests it needs a copyedit throughout and may be one reason why this FAC has been quiet. If you withdraw and ping me when at Peer Review I'll do some more copyediting. I might do a bit more now but have a few things on my plate already (including finishing some more GA reviews :/) Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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