Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch merchant)

Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch merchant) edit

Just finished an extensive rewrite of this article, making use of the Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts and other very reliable sources circa 1900. I would like to bring this to GAN soon but would like a peer review before doing so. There are some minor facts that I will be adding in the interim, also, which is why I'm waiting before GAN. In the end, I would really like to bring this to FA status. I put a lot of time, reading, and work into this. Some of the text is copied verbatim from sources (almost all of which are PD); many times this was done because the wording in the source was so good I couldn't top it. That said, there were some that were pretty good, but give off 19th century vibe, but which I couldn't do much with. This is an important man for the history of New York and the Northeastern United States in general, and a full and thorough article on him was very warranted. Thanks in advance to any interested parties! upstate NYer 23:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]