Wikipedia:Peer review/Emanuel Swedenborg/archive1

Emanuel Swedenborg

See previous peer review request, which was redrawn as it was submitted to the wrong instance (should have been RfC). Wikipedia:Peer review/Emanuel Swedenborg/archive2

The article has since been improved on and might became a Featured Article. The users who suggested the article might make it to featured status were User:Uppland and User:Bishonen.

Most of the contents has unfortunately only been added by me, User:Fred chessplayer. I would request that anyone who knows anything about the subject would give feedback and preferably to be willing to contribute. One contributor makes for a one sided POV , naturally.

I will handle questions of contents but not structural things. Major copediting / rewrite has been done by User:Blainster.

--Fred-Chess 11:18, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

• You talk a lot about the various discoveries of of Swedenborg, but it is unclear which discoveries made an immediate impact, and which were essentially "rediscovered" later, much like the genetics discoveries of Gregor Mendel. At least the way that I read the article, it seems to hint that many of the discoveries should be placed in the later category. BlankVerse ∅ 12:00, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. It has been attended. --Fred-Chess 10:18, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Some more pictures would be nice--nixie 04:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I am trying to look for any, but find them hard to find. --Fred-Chess 10:51, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fred, would you consider adding footnotes to the article? Referencing each part of the article carefully will make it more difficult for random people to just add unreferenced stuff to the text. As for illustrations, I am sure it would be possible to get a picture of Swedenborg's grave in Uppsala Cathedral. Other than that, perhaps a photograph of a title page or an original manuscript? It would be valuable to have some suggestions as to buildings or places in Uppsala, Stockholm, London, the Netherlands or elsewhere which may perhaps already be depicted among all the images here or on commons or other Wikipedias, or possibly easily dug up in the form of engravings and other PD material that can be scanned from old books. Any ideas? Uppland 09:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have considred your points. References are, I think, not something I would do just yet because alot of material is derived from different sources, sometimes even in one sentence. I know this isn't in the spirit of the jaggedness of academical publications, but so be it...

Some pictures would be nice, I have been a little hesistant because I can't see how they would improve the article. A photo of a title page is OK however. I will get one if I can.

I will ask some people in Uppsala if they can take a picture of his grave, but don't expect them to be all too happy about it.

A picture of sv:Swedenborgs lusthus his house and garden in Stockholm would be nice.

--Fred-Chess 03:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

As for footnotes or inline references, you may be asked to put them in when this gets to the FA nomination stage. As for the grave photo - rather than using the services of your unenthusiastic acquaintances, I asked Wiglaf on his talk page about it. He has a camera and may be willing to take a picture from the Cathedral. Uppland 07:22, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Looks good. I've heard that the casket is behind iron bars which makes it hard to photo in the first place.

I've now asked sv:Användare:Jordgubbe about lusthuset and he appeared positive. --Fred-Chess 22:14, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I had to put the camera between the bars, and tried from several positions.--Wiglaf 10:53, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)