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Nominated by Sean gorter

You may be looking for a different FAC: see fixing old issues in FAC archives. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:34, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A very good article. Very specific, many images, includes its 41 states and many more reasons. •Sean•gorter•(T) (P) 05:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Support per nom"? But you are the nominator. Are you just trying to bulk up the appearance of support? Tony 13:30, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please assume good faith. He may think (wrongly) that such a support is standard procedure. —Cuiviénen 20:57, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object—1a; poorly written. Here are random examples from the top.
    • Ungrammatical sentence: "Columbus Day, a holiday in the U.S. and other countries in the Americas commemorating Columbus' October 1492 landing." Huh?
    • "A female personification of the country is also called Columbia; she is similar to Britannia." Ambiguous: so the female personification is called something else too? Is this tid-bit appropriate in a prominent section just below the ToC?
    • "[The US] is ... bounded by ... Canada to the north. Alaska also borders Canada,...". Ambiguous, and jumbled categories.
    • "The adjectival and demonymic forms for the United States are American, a point of controversy among some." If you don't provide the details of the controversy and of who "some" are, it's best not to mention this.
    • 'The term "united States of America"'—Wouldn't that be an upper-case "U"? Explained by nominator." Tony 03:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Confusion between "The Americas" and "the US", under "Name".
    • "On the other end of the spectrum, Death Valley, California once reached 134 °F (56.7 °C); the second-highest temperature ever recorded on Earth." Should that be a comma rather than a semicolon?
    • Ungainly repetition: "On average, the mountains of the western states receive the most snow and are among the snowiest places on Earth."

I won't read further. The whole article needs serious copy-editing. Many hours' work. Tony 13:30, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Quick response - no, it wouldn't be an upper-case 'u', the original references to the country used "united" as an adjective, not as part of the name. On everything else, you're probably right. --Golbez 16:47, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Tony. Also, why does the Ecology section have only one subsection. Either name the section Flora and Fauna or name it Ecology and mention other aspects of ecology. There is no need to have a single subsection within a section. Also, does the recent Iraq war deserve a paragraph in the history section? See Wikipedia:Recentism. Also the findings about the first usage of the term "America" has no source. The religion subsection could use some serious condensing. And couldn't the cusine, music and movies subsections all be assimilated into the culture section, with more detailed discussion belong in Culture of the United States? Pepsidrinka 16:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This article has been nominated several times before. You should probably put the archives of those nominations here for easy access.UberCryxic 18:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Nom has less than 50 mainspace edits, and several of those are either very clueless or vandalism (moving mortar to morter [1], for example). Between that, the "41 states" comment, and the hundreds of edits this user has put into his userspace, I feel like he could use either a mentorship or a block to set him on the right track ...some kind of drastic change. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 11:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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