Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ernie Fletcher/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 by Ucucha 21:55, 2 September 2011 [1].

Ernie Fletcher

Nominator(s): Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 14:28, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article as currently a good article and has recently undergone a peer review. Although I generally find it difficult to write about relatively current people, I think this article is at or near the featured article standard. I hope to respond to comments quickly, but be advised that I am often off-wiki on weekends. Your patience is appreciated. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 14:28, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - spotchecks not done. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:55, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Biographical Directory should be italicized in footnotes

Done.

FN 10 has an author listed in Bibliography

Added.

Some of the newspaper articles need page numbers

Added all but one, which was taken from The Henderson Gleaner. The page number was not available through Newsbank or the Gleaner's web site.

be consistent in whether you include subtitles in shortened citations

Fixed.

FN 19: which Brammer and Alessi? In general, disambiguation is needed for multiple citations

All footnotes should now include titles.

Make sure that you close all quotation marks that you open

Only found one, but I fixed it.

check for consistency in article titles and capitalization, for example FN 40

Fixed FN 40. Capitalization is meant to reflect what appears in Newsbank for different sources. If you are talking about inconsistencies between the footnote and the corresponding entry in the Bibliography, let me know, and I'll take another look.

It's footnote-biblio - I specifically noticed FN 65. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:16, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Found and fixed two instances.

~~Some of the sources in Bibliography aren't included in citations - don't mix cited and uncited sources~~

I didn't find any sources in the Bibliography that weren't cited. Could you please be more specific?

I can't find any now either. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:16, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How are you ordering Bibliography entries?

First by the last name of the primary author, then by the title of the article.

check for hyphen/dash use

In the Bibliography, the footnotes, or the article text?

Mostly in Bibliography (for example: Grunwald), but I didn't check article text. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:16, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Found and fixed two.

Don't include cited sources in External links

Removed.

Sources in general are reliable, but formatting and organization needs work. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:55, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is what happens when you start working on an article, leave it for a while, then come back and try to pick up where you left off. Sorry about the inconsistency; I usually do better than that! Let me know if there are still issues. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 19:16, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No issues were revealed by copyscape searches. Graham Colm (talk) 21:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Image review - captions that are complete sentences should end in periods. Image licenses check out. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:37, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done.

Support by Ruhrfisch. I peer reviewed this and thought it was ready for FAC then. I have re-read it just now and except for some nitpicks (below) find that it meets the FA criteria. The nitpicks do not detract from my support. Nicely done, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Word choice - enrolled in or enrolled at After graduating in 1970, he enrolled to the University of Kentucky.[1]
- Either I'm an inarticulate doofus, or this originally read "matriculated to" and I (or someone else) changed it to "enrolled" without changing the preposition. I hope it was the latter! :)
Needs a ref On September 17, GOP leaders voted to retain Brock as state party leader.
- Cited.
~~I would briefly identify Rudolph here Fletcher named Robbie Rudolph as his new running mate.[60] (business man, perhaps his role in the cabinet)~~
- Done.
~~70 miles per hour needs to converted to kph too {{convert}} does this nicely.~~
- Done.

Thanks for your review and support. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 20:22, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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