Talk:Thomas Forester

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Thomas Forester was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 8, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 12, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Thomas Forester, the only American stock mutual fund manager to make a profit in 2008, had previously been one of only two mutual fund managers to make a profit in the second quarter of 2002?

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Thomas Forester/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
- Morningstar and portfolio link to dab pages.
- The lead is very blunt, and does not introduce the subject; instead it jumps straight to "details" and heads on the main stuff later.
- No-where in the text is there any indication of what country he comes from.
- P/E is not understandable, because the first occurrence does not have the abbreviation in brackets.
- I have not made a full review of the prose.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Not checked.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
- There is only an estimate of the year of birth, no place of birth, no information about education, and hardly information about his career prior to the 2000s.
- The article is dominated by recentism.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
The article is not imaged.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
This article lacks fundamental information expected in a biography article. It is not possible to pass the article as GA without much more content. I will therefore have to fail the article. However, except for the lead, what is there is good. Keep up the good work :) Arsenikk ^(talk) 22:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]