Talk:1880 Greenback National Convention
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 25, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 1880 Greenback National Convention nominated James B. Weaver for President of the United States and passed a resolution supporting women's suffrage ? | ||
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talk · contribs) 01:31, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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talk) 01:31, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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- It is reasonably well written.
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- It is stable.
- No edit wars, etc.:
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- It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
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Lede
- Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section, the lede is a summary of the most important aspects from each of the article's sections. With this in mind, I suggest adding some content from the "Background" section. Perhaps mention that the party had arisen, mostly in the West and South, as a response to the economic depression that followed the Panic of 1873 and why the party came to be known as the Greenback party.
- For the same reason listed above, there should be a description of the three front runners as they are prominently profiled in the "Candidates" section: Weaver, Butler, and Wright.
- With the exception of the "Background" and "Candidates" sections needing to be included in the lede, the existing summarizes the remainder of the article's content well, and I have no other issues that need to be addressed here.
- I also suggest adding the number of delegates in the lede.
1 Background 1.1 Origins
- Link Greenback Party in its first mention in the article content section. Linking should happen once in the summary, and once in the content per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking.
- In the first paragraph, "many in both parties" should probably explicitly mention Democrat and Republican at first mention, as this may not be clear to non-American readers.
- Other than these minor suggestions, this section reads well and its internal citations are verifiable.
1.2 Party split
- This section reads well and its internal citations are verifiable.
2 Candidates
- I made several minor tweaks in this section and provided several wiki-links per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking. Please let me know if you disagree with any of this minor edits.
- All images are free, and therefore, appropriate for inclusion in this article.
2.1 Weaver 2.2 Butler 2.3 Wright 2.4 Other contenders
- Does the Lause citation also cover the first sentence of this paragraph?
- Other than that, I made some minor tweaks. In addition, I find that all images are free, the internal citations are verifiable, and these subsections read well as is.
3 Convention 3.1 Preliminaries 3.2 Reunification 3.3 Platform
- All the above subsections read well, and are well-sourced with adequate and verifiable internal citations.
3.4 Nominations and balloting
- The table is formatted properly, but I suggest adding an internal citation within the table, even though it is clear that the table's information is internally-cited within the prose.
4 Aftermath
- The table is sourced and formatted appropriately.
talk) 03:29, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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- Caponer, thanks for the thorough review. I'm glad you enjoyed the article! I'll work on these fixes over the next couple days. --Coemgenus (talk) 13:23, 14 January 2015 (UTC)]
- talk) 13:34, 15 January 2015 (UTC)]
Now a FA in Chinese Wikipedia
I have translated this article to Chinese Wikipedia here and promoted to FA status, and I want to thank User:Coemgenus for his effort to write this amazing article. --Jarodalien (talk) 13:52, 11 January 2016 (UTC)