Wikipedia:Peer review/Georg Cantor/archive1

Georg Cantor

• This article has an A-rating in WikiProject Biography,WikiProject Mathematics, WikiProject Germany and WikiProject Philosophy. It has been collaborated on by several mathematicians and other editors. It is well-developed and has a boxful of references (plus more stored away in case of challenges). We hope to send it along to WP:FAC in the near future. Ling.Nut 18:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

From SandyGeorgia

Beautiful, a few minor WP:MOS things:

• Why is there a mention of sources in External links? It left me uncertain if that meant that site was used to source the article, in which case it shouldn't be in External links.

• Removed message from over a year ago; when nothing was cited. No longer current/valid. Ling.Nut 12:14, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• There's an ISBN finder in the userbox on my userpage that can be used to fill in some of the missing ISBNs in References.

• Fixed Ling.Nut 12:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• I fixed WP:DASH throughout; confusion between hyphens (-), emdashes (—) and endashes (–). Hyphens join words, endash separates page and date ranges, and unspaced emdashes are for punctuation (spaced emdashes aren't used on wiki).
• WP:MOS, PhD not Ph.D.
• See also should be pruned (see WP:GTL). Ideally, relevant links are incorporated into the text and not repeated in See also. See also should be minimized. Anything already in the text need not be repeated in See also.

• Fixed Ling.Nut 04:14, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I'll read it next. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• This sentence is awkward: After his father's death in 1863, leaving a substantial inheritance, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Kummer, and Kronecker, and befriending his fellow student Hermann Schwarz.

• Fixed Ling.Nut 03:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Consider delinking common terms like Germany, Scotland, malnourishment and Swiss per WP:CONTEXT, WP:MOSLINK.

• Fixed, or at least significantly improved, according to my best judgment at the moment. Ling.Nut 03:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• ... but Cantor very much desired a chair at a more prestigious university, in particular at Berlin, then the leading German university. (then ?)

• Fixed Ling.Nut 03:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Overlinking, for example Kronecker, link only the first occurrence of relevant terms.

• Fixed, or at least significantly improved, according to my best judgment at the moment. Ling.Nut 03:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Every one of the 52 letters Cantor wrote to ... check WP:MOSNUM on 52.

• Fixed Ling.Nut 03:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Very strange to see his theorem as a mere parenthetical in the article, find a way to recast the sentence ?? He then proved that the power set of an infinite set A has a size greater than the size of A (this fact is now known as Cantor's theorem).

• Fixed Ling.Nut 03:31, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Cantor's first 10 papers were ... check WP:MOSNUM on 10 vs. ten

• Fixed Ling.Nut 03:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

• Not sure why Romantic is capped? ... and Cantor's madness as Romantic despair over his failure to win acceptance for his mathematics.

A very nice example of how math can be cited in an article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:49, 23 July 2007 (UTC)