Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Angus Lewis Macdonald


 * 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 promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 00:06, 23 June 2008.

Angus Lewis Macdonald
Self-nominator. I'm nominating this article for Featured Article status because I feel it meets the criteria and the editor who conferred Good Article status encouraged me to submit it. Bwark (talk) 20:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Comment I suggest linking dates like "August 10, 1890" so they are formatted according to user preferences. Gary King ( talk ) 21:21, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no requirement to link dates; as long as date linking and raw formatting of dates is internally consistent the article complies with MoS. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 22:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Support, given the nitpicky nature of the following:

Comments
 * Current ref 32 "Se History of Federal RIdings" ... the publisher is given in the title (should be separate) and there is no last access date.
 * I think I've fixed this by using the cite web template. I actually copied the format from citation #5 from the article on Thomas Jefferson. I hope the citation now conforms to Wikipedia MOS. Bwark (talk) 20:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The link checker tool is showing that the external link http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=2b74f178-e704-4a9d-8811-9cd1eaf94f62&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience has been redirected.
 * I've eliminated this external link because I don't think it adds much if anything to the article. Bwark (talk) 19:55, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Otherwise sources look okay, and web links checked out with the link checker tool. Full disclosure, I'm the GA reviewer who encouraged the main editor to bring this to FAC. I'll try to get back to this shortly for a full reveiw. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Support Leaning support few picky prose issues (again, i know!)


 * Comment: I looked over this article's images in April and they generally appear to be in order. I did apparently miss one thing: Image:ForrestBuilding MS-Ref 3.14.jpg is basing the PD claim on the criterion of publication before 1950.  Only comments regarding date of creation, however, are present.  Do we have a source that confirms publication before 1950?  Alternatively, the image indicates permission to use this image was granted 1.24.2008; if the University has released the image to us with a compatible license, we needn't worry about PD.  Would it be possible to file that permission with an OTRS ticket?  ЭLСОВВОLД  talk 18:46, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Per this explanation, the University would not be considered a "state entity" and, thus, not subject to crown copyright. Thusly, creation (not publication) would indeed be the criterion.  Concern so stricken.  ЭLСОВВОLД  talk 15:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - very well-written. — maclean 19:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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