Talk:Thomas C. Hindman

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Article milestones Date Process Result October 2, 2007 Good article nominee Listed October 14, 2007 Featured article candidate Promoted Current Status: Featured article

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[edit] GA Review

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.:

6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

   a (tagged and captioned): b (enough images: lack of images does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

An excellent article, with quite frankly the best and most thorough family background I've ever seen in an article! I have just a few small concerns before I can promote this article to GA status.

1. Is there any dating information for the picture used in the infobox? If so, it should be added to the caption (ie. Thomas C. Hindman in 1848 or Thomas C. Hindman at age 35 etc.)

   According to the Library_of_Congress, the picture was taken between 1861 and 1865. I have added that to the image caption in the infobox. Nishkid64 (talk) 14:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

2. In the lead, the sentence "After being born in..." is a bit awkward - I would recommend changing it to something like "Shortly after he was born in..." or whatever you find most suitable (which is the reason I didn't do it myself).

   I was looking at that a few days ago, and I thought it looked awkward, but I never did anything about it. Nishkid64 (talk) 14:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

3. I'm slightly unfamiliar with the terminology, so correct me if I'm wrong, but in the second paragraph of "Participation in the Mexican-American War" you write "By June 1847, 167 men had died, 134 had been discharged and 38 had been deserted." Should it be "38 had deserted?"

   Fixed. Stupid me! Nishkid64 (talk) 14:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

4. The "Move to Arkansas" section is gigantic and needs to have at least one or two level three splits to break up the content. The "Civil War" section should have one as well.

   I added sub-sections for both sections. Let me know if it's okay. Nishkid64 (talk) 14:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Other than that, it's an amazing well-written article and I hope to pass it shortly. To that end, I have placed the nomination on hold for a period of up to seven days so that these minor corrections may be made, after which it may be failed without any further notice. Cheers, CP 22:14, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Everything looks great now and I will be passing the article into GA status. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Cheers, CP 15:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)