Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Eldfell

Eldfell

This has been on peer review for several days with no comment. So, it's either just not very interesting, or there's not much that can be done to improve it. I'm hoping it's the latter, so I thought I'd give it a run past FAC. I think the eruption of Eldfell is a very interesting story, which I hope I've done justice. Worldtraveller 10:00, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Support: I think it's interesting and has some brilliant photograph too. Giano | Talk 11:07, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• It does have some nice pictures. And it is rather crufty. Should perhaps be more crufty, though. Lukewarm support. Everyking 11:17, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • What could be changed to make your support more enthusiastic? Worldtraveller 13:20, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Interesting subject, and nice pictures. — mark ✎ 12:58, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Very intersting, sorry I missed it on peer review. Sometimes it takes a couple weeks there. But this is great. - Taxman 14:52, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Great article, breath-taking photography. plattopus^{is this thing on?} 15:03, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Lovely article. One major and a few minor nitpicks though:
  • Text says the lava flows added land to the west of the island, but the map shows lava flows on the east of the island. One or the other is wrong. I suspect from other context that the "North" arrow on the map is actually a "South" arrow.
  • On the map, I assume the white section is the town -- it should be labeled as such.
  • A couple non-SI units slipped in (I recall seeing "mile" somewhere); these should be fixed.
  • Coverage of submarine effects is spotty. Is there any more info available?
  • I'd love to see more info on national and international reaction. Was this a local disaster or was the whole of Iceland gripped by it? What about internationally -- was this the top of international newscasts for weeks like the tsunami, for a few days, or mostly ignored?
  • Recovery: Was there government assistance in rebuilding homes and businesses? Insurance?
  • Looking ahead: how long do they expect the geothermal plants to continue to produce electricity and heat water? What are the expectations of future eruptions? Has anything else changed (i.e. planning, evac procedures, etc.)?

- Bryan is Bantman 17:15, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks very much for those comments - my inability to tell east from west has been cruelly exposed! Always get those two confused. The map is right, the text was wrong. Town is now labelled, miles converted to kilometres, and a bit about funding of the recovery added. It was certainly a major Icelandic news event and I'm pretty sure it was reported around the world as well, but would need to do a bit more research on that. Likewise with the geothermal power. I've mentioned that there's speculation that volcanic activity in the archipelago is increasing, can also give that a mention nearer the end. I think I've covered pretty much all that's known about the submarine activity, all I can find in my sources anyway. Worldtraveller 21:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comment: Bantman, the media reaction where I live (Sweden) was very intense, with the slow-moving lava threat against the Heimaey harbor being top of the news day by day. I'd say it would have been like the tsunami coverage, if it hadn't had so much competition from breakthroughs being made in the Vietnam peace talks in Paris at the exact same time. I have some strong visual memories of newspaper front pages divided exactly in half between Heimaey and the peace talks, with world war typography used for both. Worldtraveller, possibly this media schizophrenia would even rate a mention in the article? (OK, now y'all know I'm really old, see if I care.)--Bishonen | talk 19:22, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Object. Multiple untagged images which would appear to be copyright violations unless permission has been granted. 119 04:40, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • The two untagged ones might have qualified as some sort of fair use, but to be on the safe side I've swapped them for two fully legit ones. Worldtraveller 11:06, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Support, but image copyright status does need to be established for the untagged images. I also think Bantmans commnents about media coverage of the event should be covered--nixie 04:59, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I've added a bit about the media coverage now. Worldtraveller 11:06, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Awesome. jengod 00:46, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Support. What Jengod said. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:13, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Support, wonderful volcanocruft.--Bishonen | talk 19:22, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Support. I have one minor suggestion: the article could include Imperial equivalents for the metric units, as suggested by the Manual of Style. As the subject is scientific, however, this is by no means necessary. Nevertheless, an excellent article. If Worldtraveller keeps up this rate of FA creation, I shall have quite some competition :) -- Emsworth 01:35, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the support and suggestion, I've added imperial equivalents for most things now (wasn't sure about giving gallons for litres as litres are pretty much universally understood I think). I think if you stop writing articles now, and I manage to keep on working at the rate I have been, I'll be catching up your FA total by about early 2007 :) Worldtraveller 10:37, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)