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Distinct from Crocker and Bancoft?
This is an interesting little article, but I feel a GAN atm is premature due to how short the article is. I'm a bit confused on the separation of this from the Crocker County, Iowa and Bancroft County, Iowa article; they all occupy the same area, are essentially same iterations of the same proposed county split. Wouldn't an article that covers all three of these proposals as one be the best for understanding why Kossuth was never split? Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 23:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Generalissima Thanks for your comments, however they are not the same. Larrabee was proposed and the other two were former. 48JCL (talk) 23:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- In terms of size, they are different however roughly the same. I would say it’s more like the other two articles have issues than this article does. Also, the GA nom passed. 48JCL (talk) 23:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- I agree. This article is pretty nice but is short and the language just doesn't "flow" that well with me. GoldRomean (talk) 03:52, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean Please tell me what issues need to be addressed. 48JCLTALK 15:54, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- I’m not proposing GAR, but there’s a few minor things I fixed. In addition, 2 minor suggestions:
The county lasted from 1870 to 1871, but was deemed "unconstitutional".
Is it necessary to link “unconstitutional” to that specific section in the article? I’m less sure about this, but should the period be inside the quotation marks?- For the sentence above, it’s a little out of order, because you mention that the County was deemed “unconstitutional”, and then talk about the court case that talks about deeming it unconstitutional again. And the county lasting from 1870 to 71 is already mentioned, but you could say something like “the county only lasted one year”.
- I’ve gone ahead and fixed some other things myself. Either way, congrats on the GA :D. GoldRomean (talk) 14:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- And not sure what’s happening here:
If Larrabee County was to be created, it would consist of the north one third of Township 97, all of Townships 98, 99 and 100 north, of ranges 27, 28, 29 and 30 west of the fifth principal meridian in the state of Iowa.
GoldRomean (talk) 14:55, 2 June 2024 (UTC)- @GoldRomean Linked the word township to Survey township (United States). 48JCLTALK 15:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Unconstitutional has been removed from quotes. And the word Unconstitutional links there. I didn’t link Constitutionality#Examples of unconstitutional actions. Unconstitutional just links there. 48JCLTALK 15:58, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, fixed everything. 48JCLTALK 15:59, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks. Again, congrats on the GA. Hope to see you around :D. GoldRomean (talk) 16:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean Would it be possible if you could check if it meets the A-class criteria? 48JCLTALK 17:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- I’ll take a look later, but I don’t have much experience in article assessment. Have you nominated this already? GoldRomean (talk) 17:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean There’s no formal A-class review for WP:USA. 48JCLTALK 21:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, in a lot of cases people go directly to FA. I've left a message on your talk page :D. GoldRomean (talk) 21:59, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean There’s no formal A-class review for WP:USA. 48JCLTALK 21:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ok. I just wrote a stupidly long reply… I don’t’ want to clog up this page though. Would you be fine with/is it alright with Wikipedia policy to put it on your talk page, or a separate sandbox page or something? Or can we just archive this page anyway? GoldRomean (talk) 18:59, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- I’ll take a look later, but I don’t have much experience in article assessment. Have you nominated this already? GoldRomean (talk) 17:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean Would it be possible if you could check if it meets the A-class criteria? 48JCLTALK 17:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks. Again, congrats on the GA. Hope to see you around :D. GoldRomean (talk) 16:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, fixed everything. 48JCLTALK 15:59, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Unconstitutional has been removed from quotes. And the word Unconstitutional links there. I didn’t link Constitutionality#Examples of unconstitutional actions. Unconstitutional just links there. 48JCLTALK 15:58, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean Linked the word township to Survey township (United States). 48JCLTALK 15:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- And not sure what’s happening here:
- I’m not proposing GAR, but there’s a few minor things I fixed. In addition, 2 minor suggestions:
- @GoldRomean Please tell me what issues need to be addressed. 48JCLTALK 15:54, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
GA Review
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Nominator: 48JCL (talk · contribs) 22:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: CosXZ (talk · contribs) 23:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
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Comments
Stable
Cos (X + Z) 23:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Image and source review
- File:Map of Iowa highlighting Kossuth County.svg: appropriate image
- File:Map of Iowa highlighting Bancroft County.svg: appropriate image
- File:Portrait of William Larrabee.jpg: related with the article
- Great copyright on all images
- Citations are styled good
- All citations are reliable
OR
Bancroft County's land was merged with Kossuth County, making Kossuth the largest county in Iowa, and made Iowa a state of 99 counties.[2][3]
[1] mentions this too so, you can triple-confirm this statement.
Not done WP:CITEOVERKILL
being deemed "illegal and unconstitutional."[5]
[5] doesn't mention this, [4] mentions "unconstitutional" so, remove "illegal and" and add afterAfter Crocker County was disestablished in 1871, Crocker County's land was merged into Kossuth County.
{{Sfn|Brown|2023}}
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the case L.K. Garfield vs R.I. Brayton that Crocker County was a violation of the Iowa constitution,
put [1] after comma.
Done
The name "Larrabee" would honor governor William Larrabee.[6]
[1] mentions this too.
Not done WP:CITEOVERKILL
Done
The proposal would divide Kossuth County, making the northern part Larrabee County.[1]
[7] mentions this too.
Done
The proposal received 920 votes compared to the opposition's 3599 votes; therefore, Larrabee County was not established which meant Iowa remained a state of 99 counties,[1]
[4] mentions this too.
Not done once is good enough
and Kossuth County remained the largest county in Iowa.[4]
[3] mentions this too.
Not done once is good enough
Copyvio
Earwig shows a 2.9% which is amazing.Cos (X + Z) 23:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- @CosXZ any other things I need to address? 48JCL (talk) 01:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- I will review more of the criteria later today Cos (X + Z) 14:56, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- @48JCL I got some things I need you to do Cos (X + Z) 22:56, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- @CosXZ issues addressed, could you pass? 48JCL (talk) 02:11, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
- @48JCL I got some things I need you to do Cos (X + Z) 22:56, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- I will review more of the criteria later today Cos (X + Z) 14:56, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Mos
Done 48JCL (talk) 23:20, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Layout
- Move coordinates to in between the citations and the categories.
Done
Lead
Larrabee County was a proposed county in the northern part of Kossuth County, Iowa
in February 1913.
Done
It was named after governor William Larrabee.
replace "It" with "The County".
Done
It was preceded by Crocker County until it was disestablished being illegal.
replace "It" with "The County" and "it" with "the County".
Done
A vote was held in Kossuth County in order to see if the county would be established or not. It failed and Kossuth County remained the largest county in Iowa.
capitalize "county" and replace "It" with "The Vote".
Done
@CosXZ done 48JCL (talk) 16:32, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Words to watch
However,the residents of northern Kossuth County sent a delegation to Des Moines to express that they did not want Larrabee County to exist.
Done
Grammar
Background
, making Iowa
officiallya state of 100 counties.
Done
, Bancroft County was eliminated because it was not suitable for settling due to its marshes and wetlands
replace "eliminated" with "disestablished" and "it" with "the county".
Done
Bancroft County's land was merged with Kossuth County, making Kossuth the largest County in Iowa,
decapitalize "County" in "the largest County".
Done
, and therefore Iowa was now a state of 99 counties.
---> and made Iowa a state of 99 counties.
Done
It lasted from 1870 to 1871,
replace "It" with "The county".
Done
, being deemed illegal and unconstitutional.
---> being deemed "illegal and unconstitutional."
Done
, which declares in Article 11 that no new county shall be created which contains less than 432 square miles.
---> , which declares in Article 11 that "no new county shall be created which contains less than 432 square miles."
Done
Proposal
On 22 February 1913,
the US doesn't use the day-month-year format.
Done
On February 22 1913,
add a coma after 22.
Done
The name Larrabee would honor new governor William Larrabee.
---> The name "Larrabee" would honor governor William Larrabee.
Done
The proposal received
just920 votes compared to the opposition's 3599 votes;
Done
48JCL (talk) 19:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Did you know nomination
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
- ... that Larrabee County was a proposed county in Iowa, however because it failed, Iowa remained a state with 99 counties?
- Reviewed:
48JCL (talk) 11:39, 25 May 2024 (UTC).
Article attained Good article status. No problems regarding copyright and referencing, and hook mentioned in the 'Proposal' section and is cited. Good to go. - Toadboy123 (talk) 02:59, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Toadboy123 Thank you! 48JCL (talk) 19:27, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
A-class
This is an a-class nomination. 48JCLTALK 17:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Suggestions for Article Improvement
@48JCL: I took a look at the article again, as you requested. I wrote this a few days ago, but since you didn't specify where you want it, I'll put it here, if that's alright with you and the WP guidelines.
Okay, I have a few more suggestions. Apologies for my extensive use of the talk quotes template.
- Put this in chronological order:
In November 1914, the Iowans of Kossuth County voted against the creation of Larrabee County. The county was preceded by Crocker County until it was disestablished being illegal. A referendum was held in Kossuth County in order to propose the existence of Larrabee County. The proposal failed and Kossuth County remained the largest county in Iowa.
Done
- In the “Background” section,
making Iowa a state of X counties
is repetitive.
Done
On February 22, 1913, Larrabee County was proposed by James McHose, an Iowa congressman from Boone, Iowa.
Change to “the creation of Larrabee County was proposed…” or something like that?
Done
If Larrabee County was to be created, it would consist of the north one third of Township 97, all of Townships 98, 99 and 100 north, of ranges 27, 28, 29 and 30 west of the fifth principal meridian in the state of Iowa.
Excuse my lack of related knowledge, but I’m still a little confused by this. What istownship 100 north
, arange
, and30 west of the fifth principal meridian in the state of Iowa
?- Lowercase
Township
in sentence above and changeone third
to “one-third”. Portrait of William Larrabee, who the county was to be named after.
Change to “Portrait of William Larrabee, after whom the county was to be named.”- Try to decrease the use of footnotes. For example, correct me if I’m wrong, but the first one is already used is the “References” section, so could be deleted.
- Possible replace the map of Bancroft County into one of what Larrabee would’ve been (though they’re virtually the same).
- If it’s possible to reword or write it another way, I think that mentioning the fact that “Kossuth is Iowa’s biggest county” three times is a little much.
This is just overall, I haven’t really looked at sourcing or smaller details. Looking at the FA criteria (as I think the A-class one varies depending on the WikiProject and the overall one isn’t very specific):
- 1a. The prose could be cleared up. Grammar-wise, it’s alright, though a little hard to understand/out of order at times.
- 1b. Pretty comprehensive save some minor issues.
- 1c. Well researched, although the sourcing could be cleared up and a few more sources could be found (like I said though, I haven’t had the time to look at that yet).
- 1d. Yes.
- 1e. Yes.
- 1f. Yes, if your GA Earwig assessment was correct.
- 2a. Yes.
- 2b. Not much structure, but it’s a short article, so yes.
- 2c. Haven’t check citations yet.
- 3. Yes, but I haven’t checked for copyright yet (this should’ve been done for the GAN anyway).
- 4. Yes.
Really, this is a pretty good article. If this passed A-class though, you would likely nominate it for FA. I’m a little worried about notability and length right now, however. There’s not that many sources discussing this right now, and if this became a FA, it would be one of, if not the shortest FAs on Wikipedia.
I suggest requesting a copy-edit from the Guild of Copy-Editors sometime after you make these edits. I might have more ideas later, depending on what the article looks like.
If I’m not wrong, for A-class, you have to nominate through a WikiProject? So either WP History or WP United States. Let me know if/when/where you nominate. Sorry for making this ridiculously long. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 22:02, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean, WP:A? states that a nomination can be made on the talk page. For the comments on notability, this was accepted at WP:AFC, and the sources do demonstrate notability. 48JCLTALK 23:07, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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