Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hard disk drive/archive1
- The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.
The article was not promoted 02:18, 9 September 2007.
It has great and clear images. It deeply defines the Hard drive both historical ones to the new one. It clearly understandable. It defines almost every aspect of the Hard drive: its function its types, it capacities, its parts and also the certain function of each and every part. And also, it clearly explains how the hard drive works and stores information.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Phil ryans (talk • contribs)
- Comment suggest that the Manufacturers section gets fixed first. --Oscarthecat 17:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose In addition to the above, the following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program.
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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, — BQZip01 — talk 21:33, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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