I am nominating this biography for A-Class review because I believe it meets all five A-Class criteria, and because I believe it is of compelling interest to those who care about military issues, political activism, and political thought. Its subject entered the public eye as a draft dodger leader during the Vietnam War, and proceeded to create Canada's (and arguably North America's) most significant draft dodger assistance organization. He spent the rest of his life trying to articulate a "visionary" but non-Marxist political philosophy that would inspire the U.S. to play what he felt was a more benign role at home and abroad. The article ends two paragraphs after he calls for mandatory national service (i.e., a draft) on Voice of America radio in 2004, nearly three decades after the Vietnam War.
I wrote the original stub article in 2004 and did the major expansion / revision in 2005. Here I have updated, revised, and expanded it by a factor of 15 in an effort to make it truly useful for readers and researchers for decades to come. On my own, I had it reviewed for substance by some of those familiar with some of the events discussed. I then put it through the FAC process, and entered nearly 100 changes suggested or inspired by my FAC reviewers. I hope you will enjoy reviewing it.
Note on citation style. I have retained the style I used in the 2005 revision (the original stub contained no references). It is a composite with the following major features: (1) first name before surname, as in the Bluebook; (2) all commas until the period at the end, as in the Bluebook; (3) no parentheses around dates or publishers (except around years of journals), as in the MLA Handbook; and (4) "p." or "pp." before page numbers, as is the practice of some American publishers of quality texts (see, e.g., Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought, Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1998, pp. 281-316). My principal goals here were – and are – clarity and ease of reading.
Note on links in the "References" section. I have linked authors and publishers here only if they are not linked anywhere in the text or in the "Publications" section; and I have only linked authors or publishers here on first mention. Babel41 ( talk) 19:43, 27 August 2011 (UTC) reply
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I am nominating this biography for A-Class review because I believe it meets all five A-Class criteria, and because I believe it is of compelling interest to those who care about military issues, political activism, and political thought. Its subject entered the public eye as a draft dodger leader during the Vietnam War, and proceeded to create Canada's (and arguably North America's) most significant draft dodger assistance organization. He spent the rest of his life trying to articulate a "visionary" but non-Marxist political philosophy that would inspire the U.S. to play what he felt was a more benign role at home and abroad. The article ends two paragraphs after he calls for mandatory national service (i.e., a draft) on Voice of America radio in 2004, nearly three decades after the Vietnam War.
I wrote the original stub article in 2004 and did the major expansion / revision in 2005. Here I have updated, revised, and expanded it by a factor of 15 in an effort to make it truly useful for readers and researchers for decades to come. On my own, I had it reviewed for substance by some of those familiar with some of the events discussed. I then put it through the FAC process, and entered nearly 100 changes suggested or inspired by my FAC reviewers. I hope you will enjoy reviewing it.
Note on citation style. I have retained the style I used in the 2005 revision (the original stub contained no references). It is a composite with the following major features: (1) first name before surname, as in the Bluebook; (2) all commas until the period at the end, as in the Bluebook; (3) no parentheses around dates or publishers (except around years of journals), as in the MLA Handbook; and (4) "p." or "pp." before page numbers, as is the practice of some American publishers of quality texts (see, e.g., Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought, Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1998, pp. 281-316). My principal goals here were – and are – clarity and ease of reading.
Note on links in the "References" section. I have linked authors and publishers here only if they are not linked anywhere in the text or in the "Publications" section; and I have only linked authors or publishers here on first mention. Babel41 ( talk) 19:43, 27 August 2011 (UTC) reply
Comments. As always, feel free to revert my copyediting. Please check the edit summaries. - Dank (
push to talk)
00:28, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
reply