Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ellen Southard/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 GrahamColm 22:41, 16 January 2013.

Ellen Southard

 * Nominator(s): Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 10:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I found the story interesting, and believe that it's of sufficiently good quality to make FA... Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 10:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Comment - There are problems with the citations. References 2,5,6,8,9,13 and 17 are broken, and Hopkins, C.T., Methley, Noël T., Worrall, Dan Michael (2009) and Liverpool Mercury. 28 Sep 1875. are not cited in the body of the article. Graham Colm (talk) 11:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks - should be sorted now. Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 11:40, 18 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment. Hi Socrates, is there another way you can write the fractions, or even leave most of them out, or put them in a footnote? This sentence looks untidy:


 * "The ship was named after the builder's daughter, Ellen, to whom he also gave a $1/16$ share of the vessel. Other shareholders were T.J. Southard himself ($5/16$), his son ($2/16$), his second daughter ($1/16$), Benjamin Sewall ($4/16$), and her first master, Captain Howe ($3/16$)."
 * Do you have any suggestions, as I can't think how else to present sixteenths. Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 11:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sentence with fractions of ownership moved to notes section. Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 08:29, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Your newspaper titles need italics. I think they're missing because you've listed the titles under the "publisher" parameter, but they need to go under the "work" parameter to be italicized. It would also be good if you could combine the refs where you have two or more footnotes together; not a requirement, but it looks neater. Would be good too if you could make clear in a bundled footnote which ref supports which point; again, not a requirement. SlimVirgin (talk) 23:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Italics done Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 11:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Image review
 * File:Ellen_Southard_1875b.jpg: source link is dead
 * File:1863_New_Brighton_Lifeboat.jpg needs US PD tag
 * File:1877_Lifesaving_Gold_Medal.png: as this is a 3D work, you need separate licensing tags for the photo and the medal itself. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:29, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Three licenses fixed. Socrates2008 ( Talk ) 22:07, 30 December 2012 (UTC)


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