Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tryon Creek/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 promoted by SandyGeorgia 21:53, 10 October 2009 [1].

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Tryon Creek

Nominator(s): Finetooth (talk) 17:35, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

• Featured article candidates/Tryon Creek/archive1

I am nominating this for featured article because I believe it meets all the criteria. It is the fifth of five planned articles on major-minor streams flowing through Portland, Oregon. The other four, to which I was the main contributor and which are FA, are Johnson Creek (Willamette River), Balch Creek, Fanno Creek, and Columbia Slough. Since Columbia River, to which I was one of several contributors, is now also FA, only Tryon Creek, Willamette River, and arguably Bull Run River (Oregon) stand between us and a complete set of major and major-minor stream articles of at least GA quality for the city of Portland. The Tryon Creek article has been through a recent peer review, and I believe it is ready. Finetooth (talk) 17:35, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

• Support - meets FA criteria. Well written, great references. Dincher (talk) 20:55, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words and support. Finetooth (talk) 03:06, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

• Support - I peer reviewed this and find it more than meets the FAC criteria (and did then too). Here are a few quibbles:
  • Should Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon be linked in the lead?
  • The "From this point" is a bit unclear in From this point, the main stem runs through three closely-spaced culverts with a combined length of 260 feet (79 m) then flows on the surface before entering another culvert, 160 feet (49 m) long under Southwest 30th Avenue at river mile (RM) 4.56 or river kilometer (RK) 7.34. since the previous sentence ends with the creek at the mouth
• Well done, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:48, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words and support. Both of your quibbles are good ones. I've linked Tryon in the lead and altered the unclear sentence to begin "Not far from the source,... ". Finetooth (talk) 03:06, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

• Image review Images check out. Awadewit (talk) 19:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing the images. Your help and hard work are much appreciated. Finetooth (talk) 19:52, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Aw, shucks. Awadewit (talk) 20:49, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

• Comments -
• http://www.portlandgeneral.com/community_and_env/hydropower_and_fish/clackamas/history/clackamas_river_history_full.pdf deadlinks

Otherwise, sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for checking the links and for spotting the one that recently died. I have replaced it with a live link to the same document in the Internet Archive. Finetooth (talk) 19:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

• Support - Excellent work, as always. I only wish New York had such extensive resources on creeks... :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:28, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your kinds words and support. I'm often amazed at how much information the City of Portland has gathered and made public. Finetooth (talk) 19:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

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