Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Boycott/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 SandyGeorgia 02:35, 19 September 2011.

Charles Boycott

 * Nominator(s): Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  11:37, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I have been working on it on intermittently for over a year and I believe that it meets the FA criteria. Quasi human  &#124;  Talk  11:37, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Source review - spotchecks not done. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:28, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ranges should consistently be notated using unspaced endashes
 * ISBN for Collins?
 * Check for small inconsistencies in reference formatting like spaced vs unspaced initials, spaced vs unspaced semicolons, etc
 * Don't include retrieval dates for convenience links to print-based sources (Google Books)
 * The NYT's correct name is The New York Times. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:28, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * All done, I think. Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  13:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Prose review Nicely written, I made one slight change but otherwise am happy with it.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  16:21, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyscape check No issues were revealed by Copyscape searches. There is some duplicated text here, which claims to be copyright© 2008, but the corresponding text in our article pre-dates this by at least two years. I conclude that the text in question has been copied without attribution from Wikipedia. Graham Colm (talk) 17:05, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Graham, WSC, and Nikkimaria, much appreciated. Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  18:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Media Review - Please add a full Template:Information template to File:Michael davitt.jpg. Everything else is fine.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  03:22, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll do some digging to find the required information. I'll also ask the uploader if they remember the source & author info etc. The uploader isn't very active at the moment, so this may take a few days. Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  10:43, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, scratch that, I think the user listed just moved it to Commons, I'll have a look in the library for source info, according to Michael Davitt Museum, the photo was taken ~1878, but that does not give author information, which is crucial to the PD life of author + 70 years claim. Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  11:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * For what little it's worth, the original uploader was, who hasn't edited for three years. Graham 87 15:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * And the original upload text just said Michael Davitt, Irish Nationalist and Social campaigner. . I'm kinda surprised that the image has survived since February 2005. Graham 87 15:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have replaced with File:Michael Davitt (Napoleon Sarony).jpg for now, I hope that's better. Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  15:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * That works. Also, take it from someone that's spend hundreds of hours in Wikipedia's file namespace, it's not at all a surprise that the other image has survived since 2005. There are several hundred thousand files hosted on English Wikipedia, and around two dozen people who spend a significant amount of time in the namespace. It's a massive mess, and we chip away at it one backlog at a time, but it's very much a losing battle. Best we can hope for is that when other users spot issues, they either fix the issues or list the files for deletion if they're unfixable.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  16:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


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