Talk:Great Kentucky Hoard

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Bruxton (talk) 14:26, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 04:20, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that in an undisclosed part of Kentucky, a man found 700 gold coins on his own land? Source: A multimillion-dollar hoard of more than 800 U.S. Civil War-era coins was recently found in a cornfield somewhere in the state of Kentucky... unnamed finder, who wishes to remain anonymous and A Kentucky man got the surprise of his life while digging in his field earlier this year: a cache of over 700 coins from the American Civil War era.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Baruch Cohen

Created by NeverBeGameOver (talk) and Bruxton (talk). Nominated by Bruxton (talk) at 21:09, 20 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Great Kentucky Hoard; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

•  Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 20:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - see below

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Bruxton: Since you added the background, I'd like to note it has noticeable CLOP.

Background section (as of this revision): The location of the find was not disclosed other than to state that it was a cornfield in Kentucky. The person who found the hoard wished to remain anonymous. [...] The find included 800 U.S. Civil War-era coins.

Ref: The location where the hoard was discovered is not being disclosed, other than being described as a cornfield in Kentucky. [...] says the unnamed finder, who wishes to remain anonymous [...] more than 800 U.S. Civil War-era coins

Other than that everything else looks good. ミラP@Miraclepine 21:31, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@Miraclepine: Thank you for the review and message. I have put the section in my own words I hope that the edit has removed clop. Bruxton (talk) 21:35, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@Bruxton: Thank you. All that's left is to replace "wished to remain anonymous" with "requested anonymity" and "U.S. Civil War-era coins" with "coins from the Civil War era" (which are both paraphrased differently from the source) and you're good. ミラP@Miraclepine 21:48, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@Miraclepine:  Done Bruxton (talk) 21:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@Bruxton: Thanks. ALT0 approved. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:00, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

How many coins?

Are there 700 or 800 coins? If sources give both, the article has to address the discrepancy. Should the infobox use the exact number 700? It's doubtful there are exactly 700 (or 800) coins.

The Smithsonian Magazine says there are 700+. So does the New York Times. YoPienso (talk) 22:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

So I sort of did it myself. --The Little Red Hen

YoPienso (talk) 19:27, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

@Yopienso: I understood that there were 700 gold coins, but 800 coins total. Meaning 100 of the coins were not of the silver variety. That is how USA TODAY reports it. Bruxton (talk) 13:48, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

The first sentence of the article here says "more than 700 gold coins". Two lines below that, "700 of them were gold coins". Again further below that, "700 of them were gold". NYT reports "over" and "more than", without giving an accurate count. The Smithsonian has "700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins" in the article title, then "700-plus gold coins" in the article. Several other sources report similarly, 700 yet also more than/over 700. It appears that there's no way to tell at present if "over / more than" is the puffery of sloppy writing or if an accurate count is simply not yet available. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 17:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

??? The first sentence is, "Coin collectors rejoiced after gold was struck in a Kentucky cornfield last month, literally."

The second sentence is, "More than 800 gold Civil War-era coins were discovered after being buried more than 150 years ago." YoPienso (talk) 16:54, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

I think precision is important, so have clarified in the article that more than 800 coins, of which over 700 were gold, were found. YoPienso (talk) 16:52, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Formatting

Need help in formatting caption on last picture. 2601:444:7E:D970:F599:484A:A507:260B (talk) 23:12, 9 September 2023 (UTC)