Talk:Spirit of the American Doughboy/Archive 1

Archive 1

GA nomination

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This Good Article nomination is on hold for 7 days pending resolution of the paragraph on numbers of statues and locations. Specifically these sections:

"and more than 150 copies of it were created for municipal memorials across the nation. The Smithsonian American Art Museum currently lists 159 locations and hundreds more were said to have been made." and "134 currently existing originals have been independently authenticated apart from the Smithsonianwhile Viquesney was living in Americus, Georgia"

I find this confusing, which ones are real, copies, Smithsonian counted, etc. Could this para be clarified some? Rlevse 19:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. Kafziel 19:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

How's this?

The Smithsonian American Art Museum currently lists 159 locations. Of that number, 134 currently existing originals have been independently authenticated, and several have been identified as copies by other artists. Viquesney's actual brochures quoted a figure of over 300 by the late 1930s, claiming at least one in every state of the Union, but this is believed to be an inflated figure.

Kafziel 19:28, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Good. I have no problem. GA status now. Rlevse 21:13, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

GA Sweeps Review: Pass

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the requirements of the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "Conflicts, battles and military exercises" articles. I made several corrections throughout the article as well. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. Be sure to add a source for "There is no proof of this, although Viquesney's self-written obituary boasts that "he knew Borglum"." If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have edited the article history to reflect this review. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 07:56, 29 November 2007 (UTC)