Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2003 and before
Korean name[edit]
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
Heavy metal music[edit]
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
Sperm Whale[edit]
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
Lollapalooza[edit]
Recreated from original FAC here.
- Lollapalooza - Great article. --mav
16:10, 12 October 2003
Law of Demeter[edit]
(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)
Miles Davis[edit]
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
American English[edit]
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[edit]
- 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)
Sex Pistols[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Saxophone[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Punk rock[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Roy Orbison[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Madonna (entertainer)[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Jazz[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Rock, Paper, Scissors[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Prisoner's dilemma[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Go (board game)
Chess[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Blackjack[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Star Trek[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Have I Got News For You[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
London congestion charge[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Euro[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Economics[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Crime fiction[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Gramophone record[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Martha Stewart[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Rembrandt[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Al-Razi[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Jim Henson[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Leonardo da Vinci
Humphrey Bogart[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture
Milgram experiment[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Psychosis[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Menstrual cycle[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Tuberculosis[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Telephone exchange[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Typewriter[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Spam (electronic)[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Computer security[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Search engine[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Quantum computer[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Nuclear weapon[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Markup language[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Fountain pen[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Electronic amplifier[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Application programming interface[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Algorithm[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Rainbow[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Quantum mechanics[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Platypus[edit]
Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Periodic table[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Paradox[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
LSD[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Free will[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Comet[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Cladistics[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
Behistun Inscription[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
Byzantine Empire[edit]
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
History of Germany[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
History of Scotland[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
History of the Netherlands[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
Peloponnesian War[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
Christianity[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
End times[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
Greek mythology[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
Tea[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Spacecraft propulsion[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Leet[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Hebrew calendar[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Freemasonry[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Anno Domini[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Summer Olympic Games[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Montreal Canadiens[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Bodyline[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Propaganda[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Gough Whitlam[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Copyright[edit]
See Wikipedia:Archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Others
Aztalan State Park[edit]
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[edit]
- 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
John Major[edit]
(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)
Bathing machine[edit]
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
Damascus steel[edit]
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)
Pattern welding[edit]
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[edit]
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)
White Rose[edit]
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)
Project MKULTRA[edit]
Created FAC from original nomination here.
- MKULTRA - excellent example for how a public domain text can grow into a decent article. Controversial subject, yet the article sticks to the facts. --Eloquence 23:02 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Same-sex marriage[edit]
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)
Galileo Galilei[edit]
- 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
Bob Dylan[edit]
See original promotion of article on 20:52, 8 Oct 2003. Article originally nominated by User:Gareth Owen on October 8, 2003, see nomination.