Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rutherford scattering experiments/archive3

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 archived by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 17 September 2024 [1].

Rutherford scattering experiments

Nominator(s): Kurzon (talk) 18:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We have fixed the citation issues. Kurzon (talk) 18:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose (nearing full oppose though). I can spot many unsourced statements/paragraphs towards the bottom of the article and weasel words like "famous". The citation formatting also confuses me; some refs use {{sfn|[author]|[year]|page=}} while some don't, some books don't have page numbers, an author's name is in full uppercase, and the bibliography uses the |author=[firstname lastname] while the inline cites use the |last=[lastname]|first=[firstname] format. Ref 46 should be a footnote not a reference. The bibliography is not in alphabetical order. Ref 51 is confusing me. Ref 15 does not have page numbers. There's most likely many other problems with the article; the lack of preparation for FAC is evident. You've never made a featured article before, so it is highly recommended that you take this to both WP:PR and WP:GAN before you consider nominating for FAC. This article fails 1c and 2c, and possibly 2a (also holding concerns for 1a, but i don't think that's too bad right now). Best of luck, 750 h+ 09:11, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to this (and I think the advice in the comment is good): there are a number of Harvard errors in the bibliography, which could be caught and fixed by means of this script. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 09:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This has been open for nearly three weeks, is not moving towards a consensus to promote and is unlikely to given its clear unpreparedness for FAC. I am therefore going to archive this while urging the nominator to put it through GAN, PR and (possibly) GoCE, as well as seeing if they can involve a mentor, before bringing it back to FAC. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:43, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:43, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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