Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Gerard K. O'Neill

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The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 04:21, 31 December 2008 [1].

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Gerard K. O'Neill

Nominator(s): Wronkiew (talk)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because I think that it meets the criteria. This GA has gone through both natural sciences and biography peer reviews. Many thanks to those who gave their advice. Gerard K. O'Neill was a physicist and author who advocated the colonization of outer space. Wronkiew (talk) 05:38, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments -

• Newspapers titles in the references should be in italics. If you're using {{cite news}}, use the work field for the title of the paper, and the publisher field for the name of the actual company that publishes the paper. (The Simons ref is not italicised)

  I believe I have fixed all cases of this.

• What makes the following reliable sources?
  • http://host.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.319

    Replaced by a FAA launch report. Wronkiew (talk) 06:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

  • http://www.happyhacker.org/gtmhh/EML/eml4.shtml

    Replaced by an independently published article by the same author. Wronkiew (talk) 18:54, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

  • http://www.astronautix.com/index.html

    Removed. Wronkiew (talk) 01:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

  • http://www.spacefacts.de/

    Replaced by a former astronaut list on the NASA JSC site. Wronkiew (talk) 01:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

  • http://www.rdss.com/

    Replaced by several other references. Wronkiew (talk) 06:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

• Please spell out lesser known abbreviations in the references, such as SSI, MTI, NSS, etc.

  Done. Wronkiew (talk) 06:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Otherwise, sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:00, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback on the article. Wronkiew (talk) 06:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Query Hi that was an interesting read, it mentions that he had a son and two daughters by his first wife and was survived by four children. If you have any details of the fourth such as if this was with his second wife it would be good to add this. ϢereSpielChequers 19:38, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I have a few more details on the fourth child. His name was Edward, and he was the "half-brother" of Roger. Therefore it seems like a safe assumption that his mother is Tasha. However, I don't have any source material that comes out and names his mother directly, so I'm not sure how to work it in to the article. Wronkiew (talk) 06:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I can't see how to bring that into the article either. But I don't think that should stop it getting FA so I've switched to the talk page. ϢereSpielChequers 07:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Image review: Images appear to be fine. --Moni3 (talk) 15:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

• Support: I contributed at the general peer review. The article has developed well since then and is, I think, comprehensive, well-written, easily comprehensible to the layperson. A couple of very small points:
  • Writing career: Since the High Frontiers book has already been mentioned I think this section could start, more economically, with "O'Neill's popular science book The High Frontiers: Human Colonies in Space (1977) combined..." etc
  • Entrepreneurial efforts: Penultimate para. "...a variant of his LAWN system" would be better as "...a variant of O'Neill's LAWN system".

Fine work. Brianboulton (talk) 19:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Done, and thanks. Wronkiew (talk) 07:44, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

• Support: Well-written, well-researched and satisfies all the criteria. This is so interesting, I will read it again just for pleasure. Thanks. Graham Colm ^Talk 09:46, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Tony (talk) 15:23, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

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