User talk:Metzenberg
FAC
Hi Metzenberg. I am sorry to see that you are feeling very disillusioned with the FAC process. It is not unusual for an editor's first FAC nomination to be a little rough - the criteria are fairly subjective, and those who have not spent much time at FAC may not realize how best to interpret them. I understand that you are very proud of the work you have done on this article (and you certainly deserve to be!). Please understand as well that at FAC reviewers are supposed to highlight the areas of the article they believe are problematic, and not the areas they believe are excellent. The goal of the process is to reach an article that a larger consensus believes is excellent. I've seen articles be presented at FAC five and six times before they were finally promoted, and the nominators readily admitted at the end that the article was much improved from the initial version that the nominator had thought was perfect. I am going to archive this FAC for you for now; I encourage you to take some time to look at the comments objectively and see if there are any that would improve the article. I hope that you will eventually decide to return to FAC - we can very definitely use more science-oriented editors. Karanacs (talk) 21:24, 30 May 2009 (UTC)