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Lynton K. Caldwell edit

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Result: Keep per consensus below. Geometry guy 20:24, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article is under-referenced compared to other GAs, it is very short and fails to give any information on the subject's early years and education. Compared to GAs such as George W. Bush. Ғяіᴅaз'§Đøøм | Tea and biscuits? 10:04, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It would be helpful if you gave examples of problems. Please compare the article to the GA criteria, not other GAs (George W. Bush is an entirely different figure). If the prose is weak, give examples. If information on the subject's early years is significant, please explain why this is needed to meet the broadness criterion. If there is uncited information which requires citation per the GA critiria, please point to it. If some of the sources are insufficiently reliable, please name them and give your reasoning. Thanks, Geometry guy 22:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First paragraph of Academic career and public service and Awards and Honors has very few references. Ғяіᴅaз'§Đøøм | Tea and biscuits? 10:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These paragraphs look to me like strings of facts about his career/awards sourced to the Obituary in the Bloomington Herald Times (cited towards the end of the paragraph in both cases). If you believe any of this information needs additional inline citation per the GA criteria, please be more specific, don't just count beans. Thanks, Geometry guy 11:29, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Facts are from obituary. Where one reference per paragraph, facts are all from same source. It is not necessary to cite a different source for every fact in an article. The article is quite adequately sourced. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 03:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Meets GA criteria. Lead is a little short, but adequately sums up the main points. Some topics produce short articles with short leads. SilkTork *^YES! 18:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comment~~ Keep I don't see much wrong either. I don't think where the subject went to high school or how many siblings he had, etc. are major points. And I doubt that info is available anyway. The one thing I did notice is the "Scholarly publications" section is misplaced; it goes before the References section. Diderot's dreams (talk) 04:39, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. In order to close this GAR I switched the sections around per WP:LAYOUT. I also noticed that the lead was inadequate. I've added a little to it to convey notability and career. Unless a case to delist is made in the next couple of days, I will close as keep. Geometry guy 21:32, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]