Talk:Andrew Truxal

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Good article Andrew Truxal has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on December 26, 2006.
January 8, 2007 Good article nominee Listed
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[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive


Good references, but any article about an academic who died in the late 20th Century that neither lists nor explains why the birthdate is missing, cannot rate as a GA Biography. (IMHO.) B class.

And get a pic and an infobox, for heaven's sake. It doesn't look very GA!


The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 01:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References and punctuation

With only very limited exceptions (I believe hyphens), inline citations always go after punctuation, without a space between the punctuation and the reference. This alone, in some editor's eyes, would constitute failure of a Good Article candidate. -- Kicking222 21:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Metros232 01:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA Nom

This article is currently stalled in GA nom. A few suggestions:

  • remove red links
  • Picture would be nice, but not required for GA status
  • can't think of anything else, except the lead may be a little long: you may want to merge the second two sentences into "Education".

Consider it on hold Danski14 01:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Done, not done, done. I removed the red links and added a "Education and early career" section for those last two sentences from the original lead. As for the photo, I haven't been able to find anything yet that'll work on the Internet (the scans of newspaper articles with his photo in it have been terrible). Hopefully when I get back to school in a few weeks I can find something in the library or an old yearbook, but otherwise, I don't know where to find a photo.
Does that address all your concerns? Metros232 02:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes: Congrads. It meets all criteria as far as I can tell: well sourced, accurate, NPOV, stable. The prose could be smoothed out perhaps, but I'm not sure how. It's comprehensive, but about the right length. The picture would be nice, and birth date, if possible. Danski14 04:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, I just wanted to say that I'm no expert at GA noms, and now I'm curious if it will be maintained at GA status. I did not relize how stringent GA status is. I looked over the article again, and like I said, it would be good if you could make the prose flow a little better: right now a lot of it is just like lists of facts. Also, some of the sections might be considered too small, expand or merge them prehaps. Danski14 05:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic addition of "class=GA"

A bot has added class=GA to the WikiProject banners on this page, as it's listed as a good article. If you see a mistake, please revert, and leave a note on the bot's talk page. Thanks, BOT Giggabot (talk) 04:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)