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Alfred North Whitehead

Nominator(s): Joseph Petek (talk) 06:15, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, all. I have to say that I am all bemused to be back here nominating this article for FA status. I completed a near-total re-write of it back in 2013, and got it to GA status pretty quickly. Although I believed then that it met all the featured article criteria, it was not promoted, seemingly due to a lack of input (admittedly, I picked a bad time, right before the holiday season in mid-December 2013). It has not seen a lot of substantive changes in the four or so years since then.

Why am I nominating it again now? Well, a funny thing happened. In the past year, this English entry has been translated for the French and Portugese Wikipedia articles on Whitehead (along with a little from the German version)... and both were promoted to FA status (the French entry in October 2016, the Portugese article just this month). I should hope this would count in the article's favor, although for all I know the English FA nomination process may tend to be more difficult. Regardless, now that two other articles have been promoted that substantially copied this one, I figured, what the heck? May as well put it up again, see if I can garner more interest this time. Hopefully it won't be closed again simply for lack of people looking at it.

About the article itself: I noted in my original FA nomination in 2013 that the number of FAs in Philosophy was "depressingly small"; it still is, which makes it more difficult to evaluate its worthiness for the FA distinction, though I do think it compares pretty favorably with the few existing philosophy FAs. I believed four year ago, and I believe now, that the article meets all of the criteria for FA status. I believe it is well-written, comprehensive, and well-researched; while there were a few questions about its neutrality in the GA review, I addressed these concerns to the reviewer's satisfaction; it is certainly stable, follows the style guidelines, includes media, and is of sufficient length.

The article's subject--Alfred North Whitehead--is one of the 20th century's most important philosophers (and for what it's worth, the article has been listed as a level-4 vital article in People, specifically under "Philosophers: Modern"). His influence is widespread (though fairly diffuse); he is most famous for originating what is now known as "process philosophy," which itself begat "process theology," a popular strain of progressive Christian theology.

I will of course be happy to address comments as they arise. Joseph Petek (talk) 06:15, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]