Wookieepedia:Featured article nominations/Toby Philpott

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Toby Philpott

  • Nominated by: Colinmcev 21:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Nomination comments: Mr. Shaw inspired me to do another random (but interesting) OOU nom. Just to warn you all, one of these days I am going to do Kenneth Colley. :D -- Colinmcev 21:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

(5 Inqs/0 Users/5 Total)

Support

  1. Inqvote Very interesting article. - Cavalier One(Squadron channel) 15:02, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
  2. Inqvote —Xwing328(Talk) 19:31, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  3. Inqvote Graestan(Talk) 16:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
  4. Inqvote This is such a cool article. Cull Tremayne 13:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
  5. Inqvote -- Darth Culator (Talk) 16:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Object

    • The brief scene in which Jabba eats the frogs took several takes to get correctly since it was difficult for Philpott to reach Jabba's mouth with the right arm; should this be left arm? You stated previously that Philpott was on the left arm, and Barclay on the right. - Cavalier One(Squadron channel) 13:09, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
      • Right you are. Fixed. -- Colinmcev 14:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
  2. From Graestan the Cruel:
    • The reffing seems quite out-of-hand. Using the shorter <ref name=" " /> after the first usage of any ref would be more appropriate, as I see at least in the infobox what appears to be a bunch of repetitions of the long, initial citation form.
      • The infobox is, I believe, the only place where those repetitions take place. In the past, I've had trouble with infoboxes unless I did the same type of citation for every line. Elsewhere in the story, I do the shorter <ref name=" " /> thing. That being said, is this really an objection? If so, I can try to do the shorter thing in the infobox, but I didn't think this was a big deal as long as it worked. -- Colinmcev 14:10, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Calling Henson "legendary" offhand is POV.
      • I guess. Dropped. -- Colinmcev 14:10, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
        • You could say something along the lines that he was considered to be legendary, and source that statement. Graestan(Talk) 16:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
    • This is awkward, but I'm not sure how you'd like to reword it: "Philpott later described him as the favorite character he ever puppeteered."
      • I reworded it, but I'm having trouble doing so without using the word "puppeteered." -- Colinmcev 14:10, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Graestan(Talk) 03:36, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Comments

Approved as a Featured article by Inquisitorius 16:59, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

  • NOTE: Just so you all know, I am going off to get married and honeymooned and whatnot, so I will be out of commission on the Wook until Oct. 8 at the earliest. If there are any objections that need my attention, I'll take care of them upon my return, so please don't boot the article until after that time. Thanks all! -- Colinmcev 04:20, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
    • Back. By the way, you might be interested to know that Toby himself has read this article and contacted me about it. I thought it was very cool of him, and he's very happy to be part of the Wook. -- Colinmcev 23:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Just a suggestion, but would it be possible to include some links in the article to the Muppet Wiki for some of the characters he puppeteered? For example, they have an article on urTih, the Alchemist. If there's not an easy way to do it, the external link to his article on the muppet wiki is probably fine. Cull Tremayne 13:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)