Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Edward Trifonov/archive1

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The article was not promoted by GrahamColm 17:21, 29 March 2012 [1].

Edward Trifonov[edit]

Featured article candidates/Edward Trifonov/archive1

Nominator(s): Galapah (talk) 06:36, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edward Trifonov is a remarkable and highly significant scientist in Israel (e.g. the founder of the first bioinformatics group in the country back in 1970's). But not only that. He is a significant scientific person worldwide especially due to his contribution to the field of chromatin structure and sequence patterns in the DNA in general. Most recently also due to his research in the origin of life. All these topics are hot nowadays but he had already been working on them for decades.Galapah (talk) 12:44, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for substandard English throughout: "in [the] USSR", "he made aliyah [explain] to Israel", "His life-long scientific ideal [?] is Johann Gregor Mendel", "at [the] Moscow Physico-Technical Institute". According to the talk page, the article has never been reviewed or peer-reviewed; you may want to start off at WP:PR. - Dank (push to talk) 12:50, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your opinion. The articles corrected to my best knowledge. Galapah (talk) 14:58, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I should probably say "nonstandard" rather than "substandard" ... most countries have their own English dialects now with their own style and usage, and of course it's a good thing that we have so many contributors from so many countries. But at FAC, we try to follow WP:MOS and the more popular style guides. Peer review and WP:GAN should go quite a bit better than FAC, and you may find co-writers along the way who can work on the prose. - Dank (push to talk) 15:40, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest withdrawal I think this article has the makings of an FA, but there are more problems than we can be reasonably expected to fix here. As well as prose, there are MoS issues (incorrect reference placement, suspect capitalisation, hyphens rather than ndashes in page ranges are just those I spotted on a quick read-through), not all information is referenced, and there are hidden assumptions — I know what A, G, C, T and U mean, I doubt that all your readers will. This could do with a second pair of eyes, preferably someone with copy editing and MoS skills, rather than a subject expert, before it returns. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:13, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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