Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lightning Bar/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 promoted by Karanacs 18:43, 16 February 2010 [1].

Lightning Bar

Nominator(s): Ealdgyth - Talk 22:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Featured article candidates/Lightning Bar/archive1

I am nominating this for featured article because while not exactly the most prolific or longest lived of the various horses in the AQHA Hall of Fame, Lightning Bar is one of the more interesting. Noted during his lifetime as a racehorse, and sire of racehorses, after his death, two of his descendents went on to shine as progenitors of cowhorses and halter horses. At least it's not a tax, right? But yes, another horse... Ealdgyth - Talk 22:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments. No dab links or dead external links. Alt text is present for the one image and looks good now. I think the fair use rationale would be stronger if you would say and substantiate that there are no free photos of the horse that could be used. Sources look good. Ucucha 00:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That rationale has held good (with only the change of name when the subject changes) for four FAs on Quarter horses (Easy Jet, Go Man Go, Chicado V, and Barbara L). I do not KNOW that there are no free photos, but I've been able to turn up none. Flickr shows nothing relevant for "Lightning Bar" & horse. All the photos I've seen in books are copyrighted and attributed. The one I chose is just cute, I think ... and different than the run of the mill "sideways shot of a horse" that you usually see. Ealdgyth - Talk 00:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's difficult to prove a negative. I'll assume it's okay from the earlier FAs—and I agree it's a nice picture. Ucucha 00:39, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Is the first item listed under References, the AQHA Official Get of Sire Record for Lightning Bar, a book, journal, website, or what? I was thrown off by the "Accessed on" date on the end. In any event, there should be a period after the title. Also, can you expand the postal abbreviations used for publication locations? Some readers may not know them. Mm40 (talk) 22:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually a database report that anyone can order from them. it's a rather.. odd .. bit of information, so I've chosen to model the format of the citation after a book. The "accessed on" information is important as it's a dump from their records, and conceivably could change (highly unlikely in the case of this horse, but possible never the less.). I'd rather not expand the postal codes, they haven't been required to do so previously in the other horse FAs. The chances of someone not from the US accessing this is pretty... slim. Ealdgyth - Talk 22:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And the requested period has been added. Ealdgyth - Talk 23:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Due to time pressure and impending wikibreak to Caribbean (sigh) only one read through, but I couldn't see any real problems. Bishop next? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:13, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks much! If you see something while you're lounging on a beach, feel free to let me known. As for the next one up, that is up to the copyeditors... I've got enough of a backlog awaiting copyediting that I'm enticing them with allowing them to choose what to copyedit next. Two archbishops, a bishop, a horse and a document in the queue right now. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:05, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Definitely not my usual reading material, but this seems like quite a good article. I have a few minor issues to raise: first, is it necessary to repeat the "dam, or mother" construction in Early life, as it's already in the lead? Second, note 1 contains a conversion from miles to knots - should that be kilometres? Nikkimaria (talk) 20:05, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed both of those issues. (The knot was a typo, since the template abbreviation for knot is "kn" which is obviously too close on my keyboard to "km", thanks for catching that!) Ealdgyth - Talk 20:14, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The pedigree section looks very dated, dull and empty. It's possible to make some template much better looking then Template:Ahnentafel-compact5, see Template:16TeamBracket for example. Maybe contact the originator of that template or engage with someone over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 19:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Read through it and found nothing at all to complain about. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 02:11, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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