Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Monarchy of Canada/archive2

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 not promoted by SandyGeorgia 19:38, 19 December 2009 [1].

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Monarchy of Canada

Nominator(s): CJ Miller. (^{That's my name.}_{Don't wear it out.}) 19:26, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• Featured article candidates/Monarchy of Canada
• Featured article candidates/Monarchy of Canada/archive1
• Featured article candidates/Monarchy of Canada/archive2

I am nominating this for featured article because, in my opinion, it has improved greatly from its last FAC in 2007. CJ Miller. (^{That's my name.}_{Don't wear it out.}) 19:26, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose, suggest a new peer review—the article itself actually looks neat from a glance, but the technical aspects disturb me.

• Have you contacted any of the major contributors to the article? (Are you one of them, by another name?)
• Three dab links and, more disturbingly, lots of dead external links (mainly CBC and gg.ca, but various other domains). Find new sources or archives to maintain verifiability.
• No alt text—readers who can't see the images are damned.
• On a similar note, consider changing section links, with titles like Commonwealth realm > Relationship of the realms, to (e.g.) Commonwealth realm, section "Relationship of the realms" so they can be read better.
• Ref 13 has 15 inline citations to the same statement! The refs are not used anywhere else, so try something like

<ref>See:
*Cite one.
*Cite two.
...
*Last cite.</ref>

This article was last peer reviewed in 2006; so much (at least rule-wise) has changed since. Another look-through can't hurt. --an odd name 01:55, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose for now. Needs an updated peer review. Dincher (talk) 04:34, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Image review

• Oppose I'm sorry, but I don't think it meets the criterion for images. There are too many fair-use images. For example, you can't claim fair use on File:Coat of arms of Canada.svg, when the free-use image File:Canadian Coat of Arms Shield.svg is directly beneath it. File:Queen of canada wob.jpg doesn't have a license. In my opinion, the rationale for File:Canadian Cabinet 2008-10-30.jpg is not strong enough to merit its inclusion in the article: there isn't any depiction of the monarch and a group photo of 2 dozen people is not especially informative. File:EIIR-Canadian Parliament.jpg cannot be used as there is a free alternative: File:RoyalVisitSenate.jpg. File:Roy-fam-canada.jpg and File:Roy-fam-2007.jpg show group pictures but there are free alternatives: e.g. File:Trooping the Colour, Saturday June 16th 2007.jpg, and there are free-use images of the main individuals. DrKiernan (talk) 08:21, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

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