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Timeline of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Featured list candidates/Timeline of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson/archive1

Nominator(s): SecretName101 (talk) 05:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list status because I believe it meets criteria and presents a concise (yet thorough) properly sourced timeline. It outlines an important series of occurrences that comprise the overall effort to impeach Andrew Johnson. This was an important series of events in United States history. The timeline is also well-illustrated with images SecretName101 (talk) 05:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Drive-by comments

A couple of quick comments (will do a full review later.....)
No article should start "The following is...." - find a way to write a more engaging first sentence
External links go after references -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:32, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Addressed the two issues. SecretName101 (talk) 18:42, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Further comments

As far as I can see, Johnson is not linked anywhere in the article
Nor is impeachment
Link on the date in the first para is a bit Easter eggy
"there was a December 7, 1867 in which" - word(s) missing.....?
Link House of Representatives in the body
No idea what a "caucus" is so probably link that too
What does (R– MA) and similar mean?
"Ashley's resolution to launch an impeachment inquiry run the House Committee on the Judiciary" - this doesn't seem to make sense....?
"initiating the first impeachment inquiry against Andrew Johnson" - no need to repeat his entire name
"to dismiss any executive officer that been appointed" - at least one word missing here
"to investigate the new charge was that Johnson" - grammar is not right here
"votes 5–4 vote to recommend" - doesn't read right to me
That's what I got as far as the end of the Early developments and efforts to impeach Johnson section. Need to pop out now but will try to look at the rest later this evening..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Worked to address these too. SecretName101 (talk) 03:21, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Even more comments

There's still no explanation/link for "R-MA" and all the similar codes
"Resolution debated at-length" - there's no hyphen in "at length" (occurs in a couple of places)
"informs the Senate of impeachment bar of the impeachment" - think there's some stray words there
"House Republican caucus votes holds internal vote" - and there......
Could we maybe lose a couple of images so that there isn't a massive whitespace at the end of the Impeachment and pre-trial section?
"Chase begins administering [....] until Thomas A. Hendricks (D– IN) questioned" - tense randomly changes mid-sentence
"not all states were represented in the Senate (due to Reconstruction)" - what's "Reconstruction"? Link?
"House manager John A. Logan argued that the trial should begin immediately" - past tense used when everything else is in the present
That's what I got through to the end -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:36, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
R-MA means Republican from Massachusetts. It's a common format used both on Wikipedia articles, political news reports, and even textbooks. SecretName101 (talk) 23:04, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, well I for one didn't have a clue what it meant, and I suspect many other readers outside the United States wouldn't either...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:23, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination has been open for months without any supports, and seems to have completely stalled out without further comment from the nominator. I'm going to close it, with no prejudice against it being renominated at a later date. --Pres N 22:20, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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