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].

Monarchy of Canada edit

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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