The article was not promoted 03:52, 21 April 2007.
Self-nomination I started this article at the beginning of April, not expecting to be able to say much about the book. However, I found more info about it than I had expected from numerous sources, leading to a hopefully comprehensive article. Happy with my efforts, I put it up for peer review and obtained some personal comments from User:Yomangani, which led to fruitful edits. Further exposure to wider audiences with a DYK entry and by adding links to the article on various other pages did not result in any major changes (I believe I have addressed one editor's concern over a statement about evolution) so it appears quite stable. I like to think I'm not a bad writer :). So what do other people think? GDallimore (Talk) 23:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The bulk of this article appears to be original research. WP:OR The content of the book should ideally be described using quotations from the actual text itself as well as generalizations by scholars (wikipedia is supposed to present the scholarly consensus on topics). While I understand why you wanted to include an "accuracy" section, it would be better to have described the book in its historical context, explaining why such "mistakes" were made (again, using scholarly sources). It is hard to fault a book for presenting the science of its time (which is what you seem to be doing here)! You also separate science and religion in a way that many nineteenth-century thinkers and most nineteenth-century readers probably would not have, again leading to historical anachronism. This is where scholarly sources would, again, have helped you out. Awadewit 06:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]