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Huguenot-Walloon half dollar is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 5, 2018.

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Date	Process	Result
October 2, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
April 14, 2016	Featured article candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 17, 2015.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Huguenot-Walloon half dollar was controversial for being sponsored by a religious group?

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Is it not widely accepted that links should appear in the article only once, with the exception of the lead, templates, and such? MOS:REPEATLINK suggests so. William the Silent and Gaspard de Coligny are linked in the lead and twice in the body of the article. Surtsicna (talk) 19:15, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I felt that people who turned directly to the design might not read the background section, and that the two are far enough apart that two links would be useful.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:22, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proof-read?

Disappointed to see that "Many of the passengers were ..... Walloons from Belgium" was stated in the Lead. Strange, because it isn't summarising anything that is in the article and is referring to a country that didn't exist until over two hundred years after the events being commemorated (I've provisionally amended this but plesae change if the nuance isn't right). In the FAC review it was mentioned that "the lead could benefit from an explanation of the Walloon connection, rather than just mention Belgium." Indeed, but nothing happened and we learn nothing in the Background about who they were or why they were there.

What was the name of the ship? Nieuw Nederlandt (6 votes), Nieuw Nederland (1 vote), New Netherlandt (1 vote)? Davidships (talk) 15:17, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed these things. Let me know if you feel more needs doing. Thank you for the comments.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:45, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Proof-read?