Matthias W. Day was nominated as a good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (August 25, 2007). There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

A fact from Matthias W. Day appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the commanding officer of American soldier Matthias W. Day wanted to court-martial him for the actions that instead won him the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/August.

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1. lead is way too short, only one sentence, it should summarize the article
2. very little on his pre-West Point life, needs expanded
3. footnotes usually come after punctuation, not in the middle of a sentence
4. Footnote one points to the flipper article, it is not a reference
5. the quote at the bottom of the his class needs a ref
6. the narrative footnotes are confusing to follow
7. full dates need wikilinked
8. red links should be removed
9. solo years don't get linked
10. find more refs is possible and link more things, like LA could be linked

Sumoeagle179 20:17, 25 August 2007 (UTC) reply

Why does the lead refer to him as Ryan? Was it copied from somewhere else or what? — Rlevse • Talk • 13:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC) reply

I can't remember exactly. No one has caught this before though, which is odd. Corrections made. BrokenSphere ^{Msg me} 20:00, 12 April 2009 (UTC) reply