GA review

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Nominator: JJonahJackalope (talk · contribs) 16:03, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: RoySmith (talk · contribs) 14:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Starting review... (looking at Special:Permalink/1269059130)

General text review

  • In the 1820s, after graduating from Bowdoin College do we know the exact year he graduated?
  • heightening sectionalism explain briefly here what sectionism is.
  • Terms like "doughface" and "copperhead" need some brief in-line explanation so the reader doesn't have to click to find out what they mean.
  • Pierce died in 1869.[5][2] He was the first and only president to hail from New Hampshire.[6][7][3] It shouldn't take five citations to support these two basic facts. See WP:OVERCITE. Pick the one best for each fact and use that. Even better would be a single source which supports both facts, assuming one exists.
  • Chandler promised Democratic politicians in the state that, if they would support his measure, he would support their campaign for a statue of Pierce to be erected on the grounds of the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire, though while the National Statuary Hall bills passed into law, Republican legislators blocked passage of the bill for the Pierce statue.[9] Break this up into at least two sentences. Also, you've got several sentences in a row all cited to the same source ([9] in the version I'm looking at). These can all be coalesced into a single citation at the end.
  • led to a split in the Republican Representatives Representatives should not be capitalized (multiple places in the article).
  • opposed the bill for similar reasons to in past debates I think either "to" or "in" works, but not both together.
  • the Daily Patriot floated the idea of a public subscription campaign link to Subscription (finance)
  • New Hampshire Governor Samuel D. Felker. WP:SEAOFBLUE]
  • "a superior wisdom, an admirable level-headedness in a hyper-emotional age, and a practical political sense more in tune with humans as they were, rather than abolition's idealistic and dogmatic fantasies on how they should be" a long quote like this might work better with {{blockquote}}
  • Lukeman consulted Kirk D. Pierce, Pierce's nephew I'd be explicit that he was "Franklin Pierce's nephew", to avoid confusing the reader.
  • installation and design of several nearby electroliers say what an electrolier is.
  • the design of which the committee accepted.[29][25][6] as above, just pick the one best source for this.
  • In total, the monument cost $14,500 (equivalent to $455,000 in 2024).[25][6][10] and here too, one source probably suffices.
  • Governor Felker suggested inviting a Southern Democrats I'm not sure what this is supposed to be, but there's a plural/singular mismatch.
  • "a serious error, serving only to revive a sectional feeling which has happily subsided ... These old charges of copperheadism [sic] against the President, unjust and unreasonable, have now somewhat subsided, and I should think it was hardly the best of judgment to revive them again".[28] use {{blockquote}}
  • The monument was dedicated on November 25, 1914,[2][10][7][note 3] Oh my, three sources plus a note to verify a date?
  • 55 inches (140 cm) by 38 inches (97 cm) This would be better as 55 by 38 inches (140 by 97 cm) (and similar later on)
  • Per MOS:ALLCAPS all the inscriptions should be converted to title case.
  • Some of the long notes (especially note 2) seem like they should be in-line with the main text. Why are they set off as notes?

OK, that does it for a basic read-through. Overall, a very nice piece of writing. More to come per WP:GACR. RoySmith (talk) 15:45, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Other items per GACR

  • No evidence of copyright violations
  • All images appear to be appropirately licensed, relevant to the article, and properly captioned.
  • Except as noted above, no significant MOS violations
  • Article broadly covers the main topic
  • No problems with neutrality or stability.
  • Sources all appear to be WP:RS and properly cited with in-line citations (but note my issues with MOS:OVERCITE in a few places, and I may not have found them all so please check to see if there's more of these).

Next up is a source spot-check.

Hmmm, looks like I'll be a little delayed completing this. Please ping me if I haven't gotten back to this in a few days. RoySmith (talk) 21:08, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spot check

Claim 1

  • As president, Pierce became embroiled in controversy due to his support of the Kansas–Nebraska Act , which many anti-slavery advocates in the Democratic Party criticized for allowing the spread of slavery and for heightening sectionalism.[1]
    • Verified

Claim 2

  • At the time of his death, historians' opinions of Pierce's legacy were mostly negative.[5]
    • Verified

Claim 3

  • the Republican Party was the dominant political party in New Hampshire and counted among their members many Union Army veterans, including members of the Grand Army of the Republic.[7]
    • Verified

Claim 4

  • During the 1909 legislative session, the Republican-dominated legislature again rejected a bill to fund a public statue of Pierce, as well as a different bill which would have honored Pierce and his father by naming a bridge across the Merrimack River in Concord the "Pierce Memorial Bridge".[11]
    • Verified

Claim 5

  • In New Hampshire, Democrats took control of both chambers of the legislature and the governorship,[7]
    • Verified

Claim 6

  • Local newspapers argued that a more economical way of honoring Pierce would be in the naming of a new government building or mountain, and in February of that year, in partial response, the government passed a bill naming one of the White Mountains Mount Pierce.[20]
    • It's really page 248, but Verified

Claim 7

  • Lukeman was considered a protégé of both French and fellow sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.[28]
    • It's really page 249, and only a protege of St. Gaudens and a friend of French, but basically verified.

Claim 8

  • Casting of the statue was carried out by Jno. Williams, Inc. of New York City.[10]
    • verified

Claim 9

  • Politician Clarence E. Carr served as the president of the event, which featured speeches from Oliver Ernesto Branch , Aldrich, Chandler, Felker, and Carr himself, among others.[33]
    • Basically verfied, but I'd find another word other than "president" to describe Carr. In the context of this article, "president" pretty much mean Franklin Pierce and to use it for somebody else is confusing. Also, the source says "Oliver W. Branch", not "Oliver Ernesto Branch". Chandler doesn't get mentioned until page 257, so adjust the page numbers.

Claim 10

  • The statue weighs 2,230 pounds (1,010 kg) and stands approximately 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, with side measurements of 55 inches (140 cm) by 38 inches (97 cm), while the granite pedestal supporting the sculpture is approximately 63 inches (160 cm) tall and has side measurements of 62 inches (160 cm) by 48 inches (120 cm).[10]
    • verified.

Summary

OK, that does it for me. There's a few minor nits on the source spot-checks, but it certainly passes that. Ping me when you've resolved the other list of issues. RoySmith (talk) 02:53, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PS, I'm mildly concerned that this relies so heavily on a single source (and even more so, on just two sources), but that's not a WP:GACR, so just an observation. RoySmith (talk) 02:54, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Statue_of_Franklin_Pierce
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