Template:Did you know nominations/Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:32, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states

 * ... that in the 1872 U.S. presidential election, Arkansas' electoral votes were rejected by a joint session of congress because the physical document reporting the votes lacked the correct state coat of arms (pictured)?
 * ALT ... that in the 1872 U.S. presidential election, Arkansas' electoral votes were rejected by a joint session of congress because the physical document reporting the votes had the wrong state coat of arms?
 * Reviewed: Pacific Rim (film)
 * Comment: Moved from user to main space today. The hook and supporting sources are in the authority section.

Created by Godot13 (talk). Self nominated at 22:57, 2 August 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Nice work on the article, I only have a few small comments:
 * Newness: Good. Took me a bit to figure it out, but I see that it was just moved from userspace to mainspace on August 2nd
 * Hook: Interesting, but it seems to imply that there was no coat of arms, while in actuality there was one, it just wasn't the right one. So perhaps the hook should say "the wrong" coat of arms, or "an outdated" coat of arms? Also, the link in the hook is pointing to the old location of the article rather than the current one.
 * Article length: Good
 * Copyvio / close-paraphrasing: I did some spot-checks and saw no issues
 * Hook length: Good
 * Hook citation: Looks reasonable, plus I found another one that might be useful, the McKnight source in 1872 United States presidential election
 * Image: Freely licensed, but it's unclear if it's the correct one or the incorrect one from the hook?
 * QPQ: Good.
 * --Elonka 22:01, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * El-Review very much appreciated. I'm happy to refine the hook, but it does currently refer to not having the "correct" coat of arms, which means that one had to be present. I've added an alternate, but due to the wording I'm not sure the image (of the correct coat of arms) can be part of the DYK nomination. I know the article was renamed, I'm not sure how to tweak that here without breaking things... Thanks again-Godot13 (talk) 22:58, 31 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved for the ALT hook (without image). I adjusted the link so it goes to the new redirect, everything else is fine! --Elonka 14:34, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, I struck out the original hook.-Godot13 (talk) 16:31, 7 September 2014 (UTC)