Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rutherford scattering experiments/archive3

Rutherford scattering experiments

Nominator(s): Kurzon (talk) 18:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We have fixed the citation issues. Kurzon (talk) 18:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose (nearing full oppose though). I can spot many unsourced statements/paragraphs towards the bottom of the article and weasel words like "famous". The citation formatting also confuses me; some refs use {{sfn|[author]|[year]|page=}} while some don't, some books don't have page numbers, an author's name is in full uppercase, and the bibliography uses the |author=[firstname lastname] while the inline cites use the |last=[lastname]|first=[firstname] format. Ref 46 should be a footnote not a reference. The bibliography is not in alphabetical order. Ref 51 is confusing me. Ref 15 does not have page numbers. There's most likely many other problems with the article; the lack of preparation for FAC is evident. You've never made a featured article before, so it is highly recommended that you take this to both WP:PR and WP:GAN before you consider nominating for FAC. This article fails 1c and 2c, and possibly 2a (also holding concerns for 1a, but i don't think that's too bad right now). Best of luck, 750 h+ 09:11, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to this (and I think the advice in the comment is good): there are a number of Harvard errors in the bibliography, which could be caught and fixed by means of this script. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 09:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]