Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Srinivasa Ramanujan/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 not promoted 16:20, 3 August 2007.

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

I think this article has been improved enough to be currently a candidate for a featured articles.Badripk 02:27, 30 July 2007 (UTC)badripk

• Oppose: Though Biography section is good, Mathematical Achievements section is not proportionate to Ramanujan's stature. It should be extended. DSachan 07:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment The last two sections, "Projected films" and "Culture references", need to be un-bulleted, written in prose form and summarized, and preferably be merged into one section named "In popular culture". All web references need retrieval date, and authorship and publisher information (if available). Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:18, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment The article definitely needs more work before becoming FA quality.
  • Math achievements section needs to be expanded big time. Terms like Landau-Ramanujan constant, Ramanujan-Soldner constant, Ramanujan theta function etc. appear once at the top infobox and next at the bottom See Also. These need to explained in the Math section. Same applies to many other links in See Also.
  • Some of the text can be rearranged differently. Technical information in the "Life" section (like his theorems, puzzles etc.) can be briefly touched upon once and then expanded in the Math achievements section. Also, some recognition details in the "Life" section (like fellowships) could be moved to the "Recognition" section.
  • Some sections could use cpediting. Example: these two sentences in the early life sections seem contradictory about when he was introduced to math:

Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time, and

This book was a collection of 5000 theorems, and it introduced Ramanujan to the world of mathematics

• • I don't know if this is easily available.. but any pictures of him with other mathematicians would be nice.Lotlil 22:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. Cultural references are just a list. More can be done with that section. External links need to be more selective collection - please make some editorial decisions about these. "Projected films" section could be integrated with "cultural references". MOS needs to be followed w.r.t. titles, e.g. "Ramanujan conjecture", not "The Ramanujan ...". The article also is an example of an unnecessary use of three levels in the hierarchy; "adulthood in India" seems superfluous - not only does he spend his childhood there, he also returns later! Finally, there are citations needed tags, and other places where citations would be recommended. For instance, try to avoid paragraphs that start with a referenced sentence and then peter out with what looks like speculation in the absence of further citations. See the "personality" and "Ramanujan's notebooks" sections for this. Also avoid redundant mentions of his name in section titles. Probably the best recommendation I can make is to re-read the manual of style, and implement suggestions made there. The points I listed are just examples - please do not consider this oppose resolved if you only address the issues I listed. The article as a whole must be improved. 82.71.48.158 13:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.