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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 18:01, 19 June 2007.

[edit] Flag of Canada

I am nominating this article because it is an outstanding piece of work that has covered all aspects of the flag and has no more possible information to be gathered. Dreamy 18:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Conditional Support - Good article, but I'd prefer to see more inline references. For example, it is not clear where some of the information in the history section comes from. My standard is no less than one ref per paragraph.--Danaman5 19:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Comment - References four and twenty-one need to be fixed for consistency. The Protocol section could use a lot more references. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 20:02, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose—1a, 1c and (first point) the requirement for professional formatting.
  • Why are dictionary words such as "flag" and "comic book" linked? Why is "French" linked twice? Why is "twentieth century" linked? There are lots of high-value links that these are diluting.
  • "Most of these flags contain the Maple Leaf motif in some fashion; either by having the Canadian flag charged in the canton or by inclusion of maple leaves in the design." Semicolon is wrong.
  • "The points of the maple leaf were determined by taking various samples of leaves and putting them in a wind tunnel to see what looks the best." Real leaves were put in a wind tunnel, or flags with leaf-shapes printed on them? "What looks the best" might be the wrong tense, and is kind of informal. Rather than reference a web page of unknown authority, why not go straight to the texts it refers to?

And more. Needs fresh eyes throughout. Tony 14:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose In Quebec, the provincial flag (a blue cross with four fleur-de-lis) is often considered a national flag along with the Maple Leaf flag, from that statement, it needs more elaboration. What is the view of French Canadian? I personally think that this article is not comprehensive enough to be promoted to the FA status at this moment. Coloane 04:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.