1970 Idaho gubernatorial election has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society 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. Review: November 12, 2019. ( Reviewed version).

A fact from 1970 Idaho gubernatorial election appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 January 2020 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that upon his election in 1970, Cecil Andrus became the first Democratic governor of Idaho in 24 years, and began 24 consecutive years of Democratic governors? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1970 Idaho gubernatorial election.

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• https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=758828
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/106591297102400208
• https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal70-1292460
• https://www.idahopress.com/cavalcade/cecil-andrus-from-accidental-politician-to-idaho-legend/article_87ea4a44-5702-11e0-9bce-001cc4c03286.html
• http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1970election.pdf

-- MoreExtra, 15:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC) reply

This review is transcluded from Talk:1970 Idaho gubernatorial election/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Puddleglum2.0 ( talk · contribs) 21:54, 7 November 2019 (UTC) reply

Issues

@ MoreExtra: Thank you for nominating this article for GA status! Below I will post some issues I find with the article; if you fix all of them, I will pass the nomination.

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b ( MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a ( reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c ( OR): d ( copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a ( major aspects): b ( focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b ( appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Please put in more citations, especially in the beginning after you write who won the election. @ MoreExtra: I added some citation needed templates to show you which places I thought needed templates the most. Puddleglum2.0👌( talk) 22:04, 7 November 2019 (UTC) reply

@ User:Puddleglum2.0 Thank you! I made the changes -- how's it look now? - MoreExtra ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:22, 10 November 2019 (UTC) reply

@ MoreExtra: It looks good! I've passed it. Puddleglum2.0👌( talk) 15:31, 12 November 2019 (UTC) reply

@ User:Puddleglum2.0 Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help. - MoreExtra ( talk) 17:02, 15 November 2019 (UTC) reply

@ MoreExtra: No problem. You did a really great job on this article, I'm glad it passed. :) Yours - Puddleglum2.0 ^{Have a talk?} 17:24, 15 November 2019 (UTC) reply