Wikipedia:Peer review/Carl Friedrich Gauss/archive1
Carl Friedrich Gauss[edit]
Long, well written interesting article with ample references. I feel that this should definitely be a FA candidate. But are there any improvements you think are necessary? Borisblue 03:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The lead needs to be a lot longer. Filiocht | Blarneyman 14:17, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- A good, meaty document. The only issue I have are the unresolved links, which are to names that most likely have existing pages on wikipedia. Olbers, for example, may be Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (but it would need to be checked.) It would be of interest also if there was a brief testimonial from a period witness about Gauss' personality. Thanks. — RJH 17:40, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- That Olbers is definitely Heinrich; there is in fact a blue link to that Olbers earlier in the page, I'm not sure why the second one is red. Fixed the Schumacher link as well. Created a Heliotrope stub, so all the links are now blue! Thank you! I'm sorry, i don't really understand what you mean by a testimonial. Can you please clarify? English isn't my native tongue. Borisblue 03:21, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- By testimonial I meant a character description by a witness who knew Gauss personally. I.e. was he an extrovert, moody, pleasant, persuasive, charismatic, &c.? At least to me, it's interesting to find out what the famous person was actually like once you got to know him. For example, Newton, although gifted, was known to be not a very nice person. — RJH 15:09, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Didn't actually get a tertimonial as such, but I've put in a personality section and added a few anecdotes. Does it look okay now?Borisblue 06:27, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Yes that's very good. Thank you. — RJH 02:55, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Didn't actually get a tertimonial as such, but I've put in a personality section and added a few anecdotes. Does it look okay now?Borisblue 06:27, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- By testimonial I meant a character description by a witness who knew Gauss personally. I.e. was he an extrovert, moody, pleasant, persuasive, charismatic, &c.? At least to me, it's interesting to find out what the famous person was actually like once you got to know him. For example, Newton, although gifted, was known to be not a very nice person. — RJH 15:09, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- That Olbers is definitely Heinrich; there is in fact a blue link to that Olbers earlier in the page, I'm not sure why the second one is red. Fixed the Schumacher link as well. Created a Heliotrope stub, so all the links are now blue! Thank you! I'm sorry, i don't really understand what you mean by a testimonial. Can you please clarify? English isn't my native tongue. Borisblue 03:21, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)