Wikipedia:Featured article review/Virtuti Militari/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was removed by User:Joelr31 01:27, 2 November 2008.

Review commentary

 * Users notified: Angr, Warren, Logologist, zscout370, Piotrus and Halibutt.
 * WikiProjects notified: Military history Polish task force, Military history, Numismatics, Orders, Decorations, and Medals, and Poland


 * previous review

References and citations: fails 1c and 2c. It was previously nominated back in November 2006 but appeared to go through no process. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 15:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you mean nominated for removal, or review—not deletion.  Pagra shtak  15:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I did. (blush) -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 15:30, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The logs show that it was deleted, when it was on the Main Page. DrKiernan (talk) 15:29, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That was to remove anti-Semitic vandalism revisions—a separate matter.  Pagra shtak  15:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Image problems
 * Image:Jozef Poniatowski na koniu.jpg: no source, ideally name of artist should be included
 * Can be replaced with commons:Image:Ksiaze Jozef.jpg --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:Jozef baron chlopicki.jpg: personally, if I was writing this article, I wouldn't use this image because it has no artist listed.
 * Color version at commons:Image:Józef Chłopicki 1.JPG states: "on anonymous portrait before 1854"
 * That is a different image (although similar), and looks like it has an incorrect license tag. It could replace the current image if desired, if the tag is corrected.  Pagra shtak  17:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed tag on commons.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:Jozef Haller.jpg: tag needs updating, exact source would be preferable
 * Image:Jozef Pilsudski1.jpg: no information showing that the image was published prior to 1994
 * It was, it's a pretty famous photo... I will look for proof.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:VirMilPoland.gif: pd tag is invalid as the image contains text which is not released under the Polish Copyright Law Act 1994
 * If we cut the text, would this be a safe PD? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Image:Sikorski Zumbach.jpg: websource asserts copyright © 2003-2008 Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud
 * Typical ridiculous assertion copyrighting PD content.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree that the copyright notice can be safely ignored here, but we still need to know the publication date. It looks like this might be PD in Poland but not in the US.  Pagra shtak  17:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It was certainly published in US after 1923. But Polish PD makes it PD worldwide, usually (I haven't seen an exception to this yet...).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Style

I've reorganized the lead section.

The layout is a mess and that is due to the images and the boxes. I don't see the need of using pictures of all kings who had a relationship with the award. I've found difficulties on how to approach this problem. --  fayssal   -  wiki  up®  17:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Suggested FA criteria concerns are referencing (1c) and images (3). Marskell (talk) 12:45, 17 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Remove. Per above concerns raised by . Cirt (talk) 19:01, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Remove I agree with Fayssal that the layout needs tidying up; the images and tables are too crowded together and the style of the boxes showing recipients should be consistent throughout, rather than change half way through. In addition, I still think that the image licences could be tightened up, but these are a minor points relative to the main area of concern: the lack of inline citations. Unfortunately, I do not read Polish and so would not feel comfortable tackling the process of verification myself. DrKiernan (talk) 13:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.