Talk:Florin (New Zealand coin)/GA1

GA Review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Reviewer: NegativeMP1 (talk · contribs) 08:38, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

First time reviewing a GAN (or anything at all) about a physical object and not a media/entertainment-related topic, bear with me here. Should get to this within a week. λ NegativeMP1 08:38, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

General criteria

• No copyright violations seem to be present.
• No cleanup tags or banners.
• The article is stable, as there is no edit warring.
• This is the first time the article has been GAN'd so no past reviews exist.

Actual review

• Unless you plan on making an article for this, I would delink the Coinage Act 1933. If you do plan on doing so then that's fine.
  • Initially I planned to, but there's not enough good sources. Good point. - G
• "and the bird as "suffering from so violent a need to do so that he had propelled the pellet out with considerable violence"." What? Consider paraphrasing this quote to be more easy to read because this really doesn't make sense to a casual reader such as myself.
  • I included the quote because it was such hilarious phrasing for a kiwi defecating. I added a bit of clarification to make it easier to parse though. - G
• " The coins entered production, and the first florins (still dated 1933, despite delays) entered the country at Wellington on 17 February 1934." → "The coins entered production in 1934, with the first florins entering the country at Wellington on 17 February. The coins were still dated 1933, despite the delays." I think that this would read better.
  • Oh yeah, good idea. - G
• Forgive me if I'm stupid but what does "Dies were prepared" mean? No additional definition for it I can find seems to fit the context of this sentence.
  • Ah good idea. I'll wikilink. - G
• This might sound weird but is there any photo out there of this design that could be added to the article under fair use to see how it looks like a kiwi defacating? Well there's a sentence that I never thought I'd say in my life...
• Sadly, the only image of the original design is an extremely low-resolution scan. :( Also could find no kiwi defecation imagery in commons, but maybe that's for the best. - G
• "besides a crown issue in 1949" Any additional details on the crown issue or is the material the only legitimate difference?
  • As with the Coinage Act 1933, delink Crown (New Zealand coin) unless you intend to make an article on that.
    • I do, but I have a more specific article now that I'm wikilinking to in order to clarify. :3 - G

Overall the article is fine, but I'm going to put it on hold so you can address the minor things I pointed out. λ NegativeMP1 17:59, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

• @NegativeMP1: Made fixes, but make sure to additionally do a spotcheck of a couple sources; those are generally required for GANs review now. Generalissima (talk) 18:10, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

  I was in the process of doing such already, I was just getting the prose bits out of the way. Give me a few minutes. λ NegativeMP1 18:12, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

  Ope, my bad for hopping early on it lmao. Ty very much for your good work. Generalissima (talk) 18:12, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Source review

• While Ref 1 half-way verifies the text, no mention in it says that the British florin began circulation in 1848. I doubt I'm missing something here since searching "1848", "British florin", and "two-shilling piece" all turn up no results in the source.
• Ref 3 seems to pass verification.
• Most of the others I can't check (whether access or time) so I'm going to assume good faith. Eitherway spotcheck doesn't require me to.

Unless I'm missing something in Ref 1, that's going to have to be addressed before this article is passed. λ NegativeMP1 18:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Oh, thank you for catching the florin thing. I realized it was unhelpful to describe the pattern-only 1848 mintage so I specified more. Generalissima (talk) 18:33, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Alright we're good. λ NegativeMP1 18:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.