Talk:Nursing Service Cross

Nursing Service Cross was nominated as a Warfare good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (August 6, 2020). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Fair use rationale for Image:Nursing Service Cross (Australia) medal.png

Image:Nursing Service Cross (Australia) medal.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Letters Patent

There is some inconsistency in use of case for Letters Patent on Wikipedia, as well as elsewhere generally. However, after a prolonged period of consideration, I am following the case convention used in the Australian legislative instruments for references to Letters Patent for our honours and awards in the Australian honours and awards system, which is to treat it as a proper noun and use Letters Patent (not letters patent). This is because the legislative instruments are the formal official source. Kangaresearch 10:59, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Riband (ribbon) description

I have read the article on the NSC. It is well structured and appears to be comprehensive. Any changes I might make are minor and stylistic and would be my preference rather than necessary. I would suggest describing the ribbon as "white, with gold edges and a 12 mm wide central deep-red stripe." The substantial difference is that the description starts with the base colour rater than the edges. The description could retain the symbolism of the colours parenthetically but I think that it could just be written as a separate sentence. It is up to you whether you adopt this suggestion. Regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 06:43, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It is a decent suggestion (I followed the order it appeared in the legislative instrument, but there is no reason not to look at alternative orders). I had thought about making the symbolism of the colours into a note, but it is probably better to break it into another sentence. I’ll have a play with it and see how it works. Kangaresearch 09:15, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Nursing Service Cross/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Peacemaker67 (talk · contribs) 10:14, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, good effort thus far. A few comments:

the lead doesn't need all those citations and notes. The lead should be a summary of the body and all the info in the lead should be provided and cited in the body. Same goes for the infobox.
suggested rewrite of the lead as follows:

The Nursing Service Cross (NSC) is a conspicuous service decoration of the Australian honours and awards system, instituted on 18 October 1989, and is awarded to members of the Australian Defence Force for outstanding devotion and competency in the performance of nursing duties or for an act of exceptional dedication in the performance of such duties. In March 2010, the Chief of the Defence Force suspended nominations for the award, by which time 29 awards had been made, including one bar to an existing award, to Corporal Jonathan Aharon Walter, who received the award in 2004 and again in 2007. The current Australian Army Command Sergeant Major – Forces Command, Warrant Officer Class One Kim Felmingham NSC OAM is a recipient of the award.

Suggest you crack on with those changes, make sure everything in the lead is in the body and cited there, and I'll come back and work through the body in detail. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:48, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

G'day Kangaresearch, just checking you've seen this. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:04, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If nothing happens with this by 4 August, I am going to close the review. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:06, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've given this a few days' grace, but without any response for a month, it can't be progressed. Archiving without prejudice to a GA2 if the nom returns, which I would be happy to look at in full. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:34, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]