Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sikhism
A lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into making this page a whole lot better than it once was. Extensive work has been done by myself, Rama's Arrow and Rajatjghai (as well as countless others) into improving the article. I believe that the article discusses the customs, principles and history of Sikhism accurately and in enough detail as is possible in a single article (without going over the top!). There is a large collection of references, from numerous sources of which most are published books. The article has been through a peer review and we have collected and addressed most comments.
Please make this a FA! Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 00:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support per nom, although some copyediting has to be done. Rama's Arrow 00:09, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support per nom, Highly Recommended as FA. God willing, we will all see it on the main page in a few days. Rajatjghai 02:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support per nom,Gurm 07:56, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- --- This is Gurm (talk · contribs) 's 19th edit Anonymous__Anonymous 09:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I'm yet to read the article, but, shouldn't ==History== be moved to be the first section?
The lone subsection should be merged into its parent section.-- Sundar \talk \contribs 14:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)- I've merged the subsection. I'm not sure about moving History up because none of the other major religion pages seem to do that (see Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam). They seem to place more emphasis on general beliefs before history. However, if there is a general consensus to move it up, we can do that. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 14:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, I see. Somehow, I started looking for ==History== when it came to Sikhism.
- The ==Ceremonies== subsection actually talks about customs and a bit of philosophy.
- On a light reading, it appears that content is good, but it needs a refactoring of text, and summarisation per WP:SUMMARY. Once done, I see that subsections either would not be necessary or would be more evenly distributed across sections. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 14:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've addressed your first point and will look at the second point later on when I have more time. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 14:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support per nom, Gsingh 16:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Support: I've seen this article evolve to its present state, and the huge amount of work put in over more than a month. I think it's worthy of featured status now. deeptrivia (talk) 18:50, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- It can be improved by reducing links to solitary years. A monobook tool allows this to be done with one click on a 'dates' tab in edit mode. You can then accept or reject the changes offered and/or do more editing before pressing 'Save'. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. Hope that helps. bobblewik 19:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- Nice work—just a few comments: Why the unicode for Guru Gobind Singh? With no special symbols, it looks rather funny. Also, some of the special symbols don't work for me (appear as squares). Could be my system, but since many of the symbols do work, I thought I'd mention it. Should "emphasize" be spelled "emphasise" to be consistent, or is the former used in England? --Spangineer[es] (háblame) 20:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- There shouldn't be a Unicode for Guru Gobind Singh. There was originally because it used the ISO transliteration, but I changed them to increase readability. Can you tell me which symbols or words you don't see properly? It could be that they're missing unicode tags. Well, strictly speaking, 'ize' is valid in British English - but this article uses 'ise' so it should be consistent. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 20:18, 28 June 2006 (UTC)