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Good articleBarzillai J. Chambers has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 24, 2014 Good article nomineeListed
March 2, 2017 Featured topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " Did you know?" column on January 8, 2014.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Barzillai J. Chambers (pictured), the Greenback Party's 1880 nominee for Vice President of the United States, was not active during the campaign after he was injured falling from a train?
Current status: Good article

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Barzillai J. Chambers/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Seabuckthorn ( talk · contribs) 12:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC) reply
Nominator: Coemgenus ( talk)

Hi! My review for this article will be here shortly. -- Seabuckthorn  12:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC) reply


1: Well-written

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        • Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895) was an American surveyor, lawyer, and politician of the Gilded Age.
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Cross-checked with other FAs: Calvin Coolidge, Winfield Scott Hancock, James II of England, Grover Cleveland, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, James G. Blaine, John Sherman, William Hayden English

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As per the above checklist, there are no issues with the article and it’s a GA. Thanks, Coemgenus, very much for your diligence in writing such great articles.

Promoting the article to GA status. -- Seabuckthorn  00:21, 24 February 2014 (UTC) reply

Barzillai, his odd name

The odd (perhaps unique?) first name of this historical personage begs for some explanation, if it's available. (I realize that an unusual name is often the result of nothing more or less than the creativity of the child's parents. Nevertheless, such an aberration inspires questions in the reader's mind.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8804:8604:E400:9534:9889:D46C:1108 ( talk) 12:18, 12 June 2016 (UTC) reply

It's biblical. One of the more obscure figures from the Bible, but not unknown. -- Coemgenus ( talk) 19:27, 12 June 2016 (UTC) reply