Wikipedia:Featured article review/Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

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Review commentary

I am nominating this article for review due to a lack of references and the existence of incomplete facts. For example, the claim that Pauling was awarded his high school diploma after he was awarded his Nobel prizes. The other such example is the Marriage heading which is a two sentence paragraph. MyNameIsNotBob 10:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I did the tiniest bit of work on this but there are indeed problems. Only eight refs and seven of them in the alternative medicine section... I'm not knowledgeable with this though. Maybe contact the initial nominator? Marskell 07:55, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The criteria have changed sense 2004. I'll work on referencing this article. Thanks for bringing this review to my attention. Gentgeen 18:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Like a lot of the reviews without in-line refs, I "trust" this article having looked it over but I think it needs a going over by a person who can actually cite specific claims. Any work would be great Gent and we'll leave this review open for a while. Marskell 22:37, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• POV: "widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century"—I know chemists who would violently object to that statement. No reference, either.

perhaps "popularly", Pauling in the press and even in my organic textbook (M&B was #1?) would be cited as father of something - Modern Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. As a kid I thought I would be ill with all the public adoration of LP (even though Pauling was extrememly politically controversial).--69.178.41.55 22:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

• Prose needs fixing throughout, e.g.,:
  • "Pauling was a pioneer in the application"—what's wrong with "Pauling pioneered the application"?
  • "moved his family to and from a number of different cities"—"to and from" is an odd expression here.
  • "Frances Lucille Pauling (1904-?)"—The question mark is not the standard way of indicating that a person hasn't yet died.
  • "and at one point his father wrote a letter to a local paper"—Tell us when, please; we're in the business of providing accurate information.
  • "Pauling failed to take some required American history courses"—spot the redundant word. Tony 02:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

And it just lost it's intro pic. I think this should be taken to FARC as nothing is happening and the concerns are major rather than minor. Marskell 07:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Tony 08:14, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

FARC commentary

Main FA criteria concerns are citations (2c) and the comprehensive of info under headings (2b and 3b). Marskell 15:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Remove unless the prose and POV are fixed. Tony 16:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• Remove again, I object more to lack of references than to prose problems. Good prose can camouflage POV. FAs must have inline citations. There are mentions of POV on the talk page, and a request to reference the article going back to April 2005. For gosh sakes, the article is part of History of Science WikiProject: they should have been able to muster the resources to reference the article by now. Sandy 22:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)