Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Crimean War Victoria Cross recipients


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The list was promoted by User:The Rambling Man 16:40, 1 July 2008.

List of Crimean War Victoria Cross recipients
Hello, another Victoria Cross recipients list. This is similar to the featured lists List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy and List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Indian Army. It is comprehensive, it works (sorting all sorted), it is referenced and it as pictures. As such, I feel it meets all the criteria, I hope you agree. Thanks. Woody (talk) 19:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support This looks good now. Gary King ( talk ) 07:42, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

That's it from me. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments from
 * WP:MOS recommends lead images be no smaller than 300px so feel free to force the Sevastopol picture up a bit.
 * The Crimea War page says it started in October 1853 (or am I missing something?)
 * "large scale" should probably be "large-scale".
 * "sale of commissions" forgive my utter ignorance but I don't know what this means at all. Can you expand on it a touch for non-experts?
 * Anything special about recipients who had multiple dates of action?
 * I probably said it before and you doubtless gave me a good answer but you could include a few portraits of the recipients down the right hand side of the table, just to make it aesthetically more pleasing.
 * Sebastopol links to a disambiguation page.
 * Balaclava links to the ski-mask.
 * For George Strong, why is individual year linked?
 * Fixed the image, fixed large-scale, Sebastapol, Balaclava and Strong link. Does the addition of the wikilinked Sale of commissions assuage your concerns?
 * In terms of the start date of the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia on 28 March 1854. As with any conflict the preceding events and skirmishes are seen by some as part of the War, not by others. On the British side, 1854 is seen as the start date. See Talk:World War II for a lengthy argument on the start dates of wars.
 * In terms of multiple dates, special in that they were recognised for multiple acts of bravery, not that uncommon in the early (first 40 years) of the VC. I have added links to their gazette entries.
 * Images: We have been through this before ;) If images were placed on some of the more cramped VC articles, then they would get very cramped at lower resolutions. When I go down in resolution, there is simply no room to put them in other articles. With this article, I don't get that problem, but, there is a shortage of pictures for Crimean War recipients. Woody (talk) 21:43, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Comments left on talkpage
 * Notes left on Talk:List of Crimean War Victoria Cross recipients by User:Anthony Staunton. Woody (talk) 23:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support Good work as normal, and the previosu queries seem to have been addressed.  David Underdown (talk) 11:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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