Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/William McAndrew (educator)/archive1

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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 18 September 2021 [1].

William McAndrew (educator)

Nominator(s): SecretName101 (talk) 04:42, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about William McAndrew, an educator who, among other roles, served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools.

While his career as an educator is noteworthy, and interesting enough, the really fascinating part is how his tenure as Chicago's superintendent ended. During William Hale Thompson's 1927 mayoral campaign, he accused McAndrew of feeding schoolchildren British propaganda as part of a supposed plot for the UK to retake the United States. Months after Thompson won the mayoral election, the school board, now under Thompson's control, suspended McAndrew, and conducted a trial against him. It's a truly fascinating story.

The article is well-researched, using contemporary news articles, modern (retrospective) news articles, multiple books, and doctoral paper as some of its sources. It is comprehensive, providing great focus on all noteworthy aspects of his life I was able to find. It is very neutral. It is definitely stable. It complies with our copyright policy

The article has appropriate structure. The lead is properly constructed. I believe there are not any problems with the citation style.

There is appropriate public-domain media to illustrate the article.

The length of the article, while detailing a multitude of subject matter relating to McAndrew, is not overbearingly long. SecretName101 (talk) 04:42, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Image licensing looks good (t · c) buidhe 08:04, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There are issues with the section length making the article difficult to read. Readers on mobile in particular are going to get lost in a lot of text without subheadings to break it up. I would break up "Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools" (before the subheadings) as well as the trial section. On the other hand, there is no reason for minuscule separate top level subsections for personal life and death. You can fix that by combining later career and death and consider merging the personal life into the chronological progression as it's hard to justify a separate section for just a couple sentences. (t · c) buidhe 09:15, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Subdivided those sections, now. Also, merged later career and death sections. SecretName101 (talk) 12:12, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note -- Hi, as we're getting on to three weeks' duration with only an image review (important as that is) this nom is a bit of a non-starter, so I'm going to archive it. Given the lack of comprehensive reviews, you can re-nominate without waiting the usual two weeks, but I'd strongly suggest trying peer review first to see if you can get more eyes on it before a new FAC nom. You'd also be eligible for the FAC mentoring scheme if you'd like to consider that. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 08:24, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 08:25, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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