Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Boycott/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 02:35, 19 September 2011 [1].

Charles Boycott

Nominator(s): Quasi human | Talk 11:37, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because I have been working on it on intermittently for over a year and I believe that it meets the FA criteria. Quasi human | Talk 11:37, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - spotchecks not done. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:28, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ranges should consistently be notated using unspaced endashes
ISBN for Collins?
Check for small inconsistencies in reference formatting like spaced vs unspaced initials, spaced vs unspaced semicolons, etc
Don't include retrieval dates for convenience links to print-based sources (Google Books)
The NYT's correct name is The New York Times. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:28, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All done, I think. Quasi human | Talk 13:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Prose review Nicely written, I made one slight change but otherwise am happy with it. Ϣere SpielChequers 16:21, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyscape check No issues were revealed by Copyscape searches. There is some duplicated text here [2], which claims to be copyright© 2008, but the corresponding text in our article pre-dates this by at least two years. I conclude that the text in question has been copied without attribution from Wikipedia. Graham Colm (talk) 17:05, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Graham, WSC, and Nikkimaria, much appreciated. Quasi human | Talk 18:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Media Review - Please add a full Template:Information template to File:Michael davitt.jpg. Everything else is fine. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:22, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll do some digging to find the required information. I'll also ask the uploader if they remember the source & author info etc. The uploader isn't very active at the moment, so this may take a few days. Quasi human | Talk 10:43, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, scratch that, I think the user listed just moved it to Commons, I'll have a look in the library for source info, according to Michael Davitt Museum, the photo was taken ~1878, but that does not give author information, which is crucial to the PD life of author + 70 years claim. Quasi human | Talk 11:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For what little it's worth, the original uploader was Hetch (talk · contribs), who hasn't edited for three years. Graham87 15:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And the original upload text just said Michael Davitt, Irish Nationalist and Social campaigner.{{PD-old}}. I'm kinda surprised that the image has survived since February 2005. Graham87 15:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have replaced with File:Michael Davitt (Napoleon Sarony).jpg for now, I hope that's better. Quasi human | Talk 15:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That works. Also, take it from someone that's spend hundreds of hours in Wikipedia's file namespace, it's not at all a surprise that the other image has survived since 2005. There are several hundred thousand files hosted on English Wikipedia, and around two dozen people who spend a significant amount of time in the namespace. It's a massive mess, and we chip away at it one backlog at a time, but it's very much a losing battle. Best we can hope for is that when other users spot issues, they either fix the issues or list the files for deletion if they're unfixable. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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