Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Geneva drive/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 candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 00:08, 17 February 2008.

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Geneva drive

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Nominator 83.176.135.191 (talk) 14:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Oppose This has no references, for a start, and it is too short. Nowhere near the standard to be featured. PeterSymonds | talk 15:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Oppose too, I'm afraid. The animations are lovely, and explain the principles of the drive wonderfully, but the lack of references/citations is an instant problem, and the comprehensiveness is lacking too (who invented it, when, where?). Carré (talk) 16:06, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• Note to nominator: In case you're new to this, you should read the featured article criteria.-Wafulz (talk) 20:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose It's a very good start, but I too recommend reading the featured article criteria. You need inline citations for a number of the statements in the article, starting at the very first paragraph. Another criteria is that external links are only in the external links section, not in the body of the text. If you are using them as sources, they need to be in footnotes/inline citations. Ealdgyth | Talk 16:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
• Strong oppose: there aren't references. jskellj (msg)
• Strong object: no refs. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:09, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose It's a very interesting little article and it's well illustrated but it needs more: references for a start; then some history; and a photograph of the drive would be good. Please don't give up on the article. --GrahamColm^Talk 16:18, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

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