Template:Did you know nominations/List of currencies in North America
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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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List of currencies in North America[edit]
... that the East Caribbean dollar is used by most of the countries in North America?
- Comment: This is a WikiCup entry, so review before end of Feb please. Thanks!
Moved to mainspace by Matty.007 (talk). Self nominated at 08:24, 2 January 2014 (UTC).
Article is new enough and long enough, referencing is decent, prose is readable, hook fact checks out. Good to go! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:44, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Wait a moment @Crisco 1492: the table in the article shows that the East Caribbean dollar is only used in six out of the 22 countries, so the hook isn't correct. You can say that it's the official currency in the largest number of countries, but it's clearly not used by most countries (and I'd suspect that the $US is the most frequently used currency in this region anyway). Nick-D (talk) 3:57 pm, Today (UTC−8)
Sorry, the hook came out wrong. Alt 1: ... that there are 18 different currencies presently used in North America? Matty.007 08:43, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Article is long enough and new enough. Article is adequately supported by reference citations and I did not find indications of copyvio or close paraphrasing. I found some problems with the article -- the article text impressed me as low-quality slap-dash work. I did some rewriting to address a few issues that I considered significant, and I caution the creator to pay more attention to quality in the future. The ALT1 hook fact is verified, but it needs to be reworded for factual accuracy (the list includes only official currencies and it only includes countries):
- ALT1A ... that 18 different official currencies are currently in use in the countries of North America? --Orlady (talk) 16:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- The main thing changed seems to have been the bit about dollerization, which I didn't really understand so didn't want to change much, and United States dollar becoming U.S. dollar. I wouldn't call it slapdash, more minor issues, such as linking, and wording. Matty.007 17:42, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I found your write-up on the topic of "dollarization" (note spelling of "dollar" -- and do you want to convert the "ization" in that word to a British spelling?) to be incomprehensible. Did you not notice that my changes also included revisions to clarify that two of the members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States are not actually countries (Anguilla and BVI are British overseas territories) and to clarify that the list is of official currencies, not all currencies "used"? Accuracy issues like those are very important in an article like this one. --Orlady (talk) 20:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
