Template:Did you know nominations/State censuses in the United States of America
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:04, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
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State censuses in the United States of America[edit]
- ... that New York Governor David B. Hill prevented New York from carrying out a state census in 1885? Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=y4s-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=new+york+census+1885+governor+hill+1880&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zcyI1rfWAhXqxVQKHcRBDJMQ6AEILDAB
Created by Futurist110 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:21, 22 September 2017 (UTC).
- This is my QPQ for this DYK? nomination: Template:Did you know nominations/Border Police of Georgia. Futurist110 (talk) 05:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Article is new and long enough. It is neutral and cites sources inline. "Earwig's Copyvio Detector" reports no copyvio issues. Hook is well-formatted and is interesting. Its length is within limit. Hook's fact is cited inline. Because I cannot check the offline source of the hook, I AGF. QPQ was done. Not approved due to: Article is written in a list format with most of the text repeating itself. Second sentences in the subsections Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon,Rhode Island, South Dakota, Virginia, Wadhingtonand Wisconsin are missing inline citation. CeeGee 02:48, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
- I have now fixed the inline citation part. Please let me see what I can do in regards to improving the wording and phrasing of this article. Futurist110 (talk) 03:49, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you for your efforts. Please recheck the forgotten citation under the subsection California. To my POV, the subsections could be expanded with some more details about the census there. Or, the entire article can be folded into a prose without the subsections naming the cencuses of the various states in a readable text (Sorry, if I went too far with this proposal). Anyway, the articl as it is now, looks like a list, which I guess is not ready for the Main Page. Cheers. CeeGee 04:29, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
- How much further should I improve this article? Futurist110 (talk) 22:48, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
- Only so much that it doesn't look like a pure list. CeeGee 03:18, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
- @CeeGee and Futurist110: Lists are actually fine for DYK per Rule 2C. The requirement is that there be 1,500 characters of prose, in addition to what is in the lists. Currently this article has 384 characters in the lead, and 1,378 in the expanded New York section (excluding the list-like first paragraph). I'm not sure whether those 1,378 qualify for the 1,500 requirement, as they're prose yet contained in the overall list. Futurist110, would it be possible to add 1,116 characters to the lead? That would resolve all ambiguity. Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 05:06, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
- I can try doing this. However, please give me several days to do this. Futurist110 (talk) 05:52, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
- @Usernameunique: Thank you for your intervention and the clarification. I kindly ask you to take over further reviewing in order not to make any mistake. I appreciate if you'd do this. CeeGee 06:25, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Although there has not been further expansion, I am approving this based on the prose contained in the New York section. Rule 2c requires that "Proposed lists need 1,500+ characters of prose, aside from the listed items themselves", and the second through fourth paragraphs of the New York section, added in response to comments above, do not follow the list format used in the rest of the article. Of course, CeeGee should feel free to add additional information to the lead, which would nevertheless be appreciated. --Usernameunique (talk) 01:54, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
- I can try doing this. However, please give me several days to do this. Futurist110 (talk) 05:52, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
- How much further should I improve this article? Futurist110 (talk) 22:48, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
- I have now fixed the inline citation part. Please let me see what I can do in regards to improving the wording and phrasing of this article. Futurist110 (talk) 03:49, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
