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John Sherman Cooper

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Closed as not promoted --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 05:58, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
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Although Cooper won the Bronze Star Medal while serving under George Patton in World War II, he is probably best known for his diplomatic and legislative careers. He was Ambassador to India and to East Germany during the Cold War, and while in the Senate, he broke with the Republican Party in opposing escalation of the Vietnam War, so this review may also appeal to folks interested in these periods. The article has undergone a peer review, and the reviewer opined that it was FA-worthy. However, since I have another article at WP:FAC right now, I thought I'd list it for A-class here to get some more feedback in the meantime. I appreciate all of your comments. 13:38, 30 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Sourcing and citation quality is good except for: Fifelfoo (talk) 01:38, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm really reluctant to accept TIME from the 1950s for statements like this, "The Cooper family had been prominent in the Somerset area since brothers Malachi and Edward Cooper migrated from South Carolina along the Wilderness Trail and through the Cumberland Gap shortly after Daniel Boone." This, "While his father was away on business in Texas, his mother sent him to sixth grade at the public school, which he attended thereafter." is a more credible use of TIME.  I'd like a response about how valid you think TIME in the 1950s is as a local historian or family historian?
 * This information was in another source I used as well, but I forget whether it was one of the Herald-Leader articles or the Schulman biography. I don't have the Schulman work accessible today, but I will try to remember to check tomorrow. Regardless, I'm confident this statement is accurate.
 * Last time I checked, page B2 was a single page, not a series of pages "Lexington Herald-Leader: pp. B2."; " Lexington Herald-Leader: pp. B1."; " Lexington Herald-Leader: pp. B1."; "Lexington Herald-Leader: pp. A1."; etc. etc. etc.
 * Yeah, this was before I discovered that cite newspaper had both a "page" and a "pages" parameter. Fixed now.
 * England doesn't exist, you mean United Kingdom, "Cambridge, England"
 * England does exist I live there, but you can also see Talk:England where a consensus was reached. Jim Sweeney (talk) 15:48, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Locations are citations to the nation state the publication occurred in, see your Chicago or Turabian or Oxford. Unless something very strange has happened to the constitution of the United Kingdom in the last month, apart from changes to primogeniture rules being floated, England for this purpose does not exist, and the consensus amongst editors across and encyclopaedia page doesn't trump the manuals of citation style.  There are very, very few works citable as published in England, and they are mostly primary sources from before the union. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm totally at a loss on this issue, but I've changed it to United Kingdom per your suggestion.

Note It's been more than 30 days since the ACR was opened; if nobody turns up during the next two days, I might have to close it as "No consensus". --Sp33dyphil © • © 01:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Duplicate period, "Howard, Robert T.."
 * Fixed.
 * Sorry for the delay in responding to these issues. I was on vacation last week and thought I would have Internet access at my vacation location, but I didn't. 13:52, 20 November 2011 (UTC)


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