Template:Did you know nominations/Fort Nikolaevskaia

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 11:48, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Fort Nikolaevskaia

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... that Fort Nikolaevskaia was the first European settlement on the Alaskan mainland?

Created by Voltaire's Vaquero (talk). Nominated by Innotata (talk) at 22:40, 23 October 2014 (UTC).

Article: New article placed at the correct date. Although the article seems to have been nominated just 40 minutes after the seven day deadline, that might a time difference thing, so that should be okay. Easily long enough. Neutral, cites sources with inline citations, with one exception, which I've tagged for citation needed. Seeing as the sources used in the article are off-line, I'm assuming good faith on the copyright/paraphrasing/plagiarism situation.

Hook: The hook is very interesting, short enough, neutral and cited in the article. I would have preferred to have the hook fact in the body of the article, as well as in the lead, but that's not a criteria.

Other: Not a self-nom, so QPQ not needed. No image associated with the nom.

Things are looking fine, there's just the single missing citation that needs to be added. Plus, the article mentions a chap called "Baranov", which seems important, yet the article provides no info at all on him or his connection to the settlement. That needs fixing too. So, two issues need fixing, and then the article should be ready. Btw: Are the things referred to as "Sv." (for example "Sv. Pavel"?) ships? Manxruler (talk) 22:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

I've linked Baranov and his company, and I'll ask the article's creator about the uncited sentence. —innotata 23:55, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Good, good. I'll check back in tomorrow. Manxruler (talk) 00:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

As the issues I identified have now been fixed, I think the nomination is ready to run, with good faith exercised on the off-line sources. Manxruler (talk) 21:43, 28 October 2014 (UTC)