Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Circus Juventas/archive1

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 Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2016 [1].

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Circus Juventas

Nominator(s): BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 22:38, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

This article is about North America's largest youth circus arts school, housed in a permanent big top facility in chilly Saint Paul, Minnesota. Now in its 22nd year, Circus Juventas is a unique Twin Cities institution, producing a grand summer show at their big top each year since it opened in 2001. The article itself is almost 12 years old and its improvement has been a long-running project of mine, with the biggest expansion June-August 2014. It has since undergone GA and peer review, as well as a bunch of other tweaks and updates. This is my first FA nomination and I'm happy to respond to any and all comments (and also requests for text hidden in locked news databases!) Thank much, and may all your days be circus days! BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 22:38, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Images are all appropriately licensed with an adequate FUR for the logo. I will note, however, that several of the images are of relatively poor quality. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:49, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks, Nikkimaria (and great to see you at both DYK and FAC!) File:CJ bleacher collapse.jpg is definitely the lowest-quality image but it's a consequence of having been taken with a laptop webcam (my only available camera at the time of the collapse)--I hope its irreplaceability outweighs the poor quality. File:Circus Juventas big top interior, August 2014.jpg is also so-so quality but I do wonder whether it's even a valid file to hold onto since it's an interior image with a large (hand-painted) backdrop, for which I do not have the set designer's permission. As for the other images, if it's something like the exterior of the big top, I could attempt to get a better image although it's a little snowy here in Minnesota right now so who knows how that'll turn out. Thanks for taking a look! BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 03:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

• I would suggest removing the interior image. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:44, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

• Done. BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 07:04, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Closing comment -- sorry but this review seems to have been a bit of a non-starter so I'll archive it shortly; owing to the dearth of comments, I'm happy to waive the usual two-week waiting period for re-nomination at FAC. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

• 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. Ian Rose (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

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