Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roosevelt dime/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 promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 12:14, 22 April 2017.

Roosevelt dime

 * Nominator(s): Wehwalt (talk) 22:01, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

This article is about... a small, commonplace coin (in the US anyway) that has been struck for seventy years with little drama or variation. Enjoy.Wehwalt (talk) 22:01, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Support on prose per my standard disclaimer. These are my edits. A good mix of history and numismatics. - Dank (push to talk) 03:39, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Much obliged, thank you.--Wehwalt (talk) 05:17, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Comments by Sturmvogel_66

 * Nothing catches my eye on the first read through.

Source review

 * Only quibble would be to expand state abbreviations for non-American readers, but that's not a requirement.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:32, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that's done.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:53, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Support from Jim
Just two points you may want to consider Jimfbleak - talk to me?  13:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * End of para 1 "death in 1945" seems more natural to me than "1945 death".
 * You don't translate "E PLURIBUS UNUM", but many of your readers will neither be American nor able to read Latin
 * Thank you for the review and support. I've made those changes.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:38, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Comments from Moisejp
Almost ready to support. I made several copy-edits. A couple of comments:
 * "Walter Breen, in his comprehensive volume on U.S. coins, argued that 'the new design was ... no improvement at all Weinman's [Mercury dime] except for eliminating the fasces [on its reverse] and making the vegetation more recognizably an olive branch for peace.' " Is there a word missing before "Weinamn's" (possibly "on" or "over")?
 * "Although usually more coins were struck at Philadelphia than at the other mints during the years the coin was struck in silver, only 12,450,181 were struck there in 1955, fewer than at Denver or at San Francisco." The first part of this sentence is slightly hard to follow, although after several reads it becomes clearer. Then in the second half I see you have wiki-links to Denver Mint and San Francisco Mint, but it would be clearer and less jarring if it was mentioned in the text itself that these were mints. I guess earlier in the sentence there is reference to "at the other mints" but overall I find the sentence hard to follow. Moisejp (talk) 06:17, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I've taken care of those.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:48, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Great, now happy to support. Moisejp (talk) 15:34, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the review and support.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:53, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Support from RL0919. I added a few links, and I do agree with Sturmvogel 66's suggestion that the state names should be written out for source locations, but this is really just a style preference. Otherwise I found nothing to fuss over; it's an informative and well-written article. --RL0919 (talk) 21:33, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, much obliged.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:53, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Coord comment
Looks like we're about there -- feel free to seek an image review, Wehwalt. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:30, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

support from auntieruth
I found one sentence that stumped me though: This commission was tasked by a 1921 executive order by President Warren G. Harding with rendering advisory opinions on public artworks, including coins.
 * I've tweaked the sentence. Thank you for the review and support.--Wehwalt (talk) 03:28, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Image review

 * File:Dime Obverse 13.png and File:Dime Reverse 13.png: Source link appears to be broken. Seems like proper location to me.
 * I've swapped for 2017 images and will webarchive them when I get a chance.

None of the images appears to have ALT text. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:23, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * File:Sinnock dime sketches.jpeg: Might want to change the license to include commons:Template:PD-scan.
 * File:Johnsinnock.jpg: Might want to put it a bit farther up in the "inception and preparation" section.
 * Then they would clash with his sketches in desktop view, and I want those sketches next to the discussion of them..
 * File:1943D Mercury Dime reverse.jpg, File:Silver Roosevelt Dime.jpg and File:Roosevelt plaque.jpg: No comment.
 * Thank you for the review. Regarding alt text, I've gotten complaints when I tried writing it, so I prefer to leave it for others to do. I've added the template you mentioned.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:32, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 12:14, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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