Talk:Little Rock campaign/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 02:52, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Will take this up. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 02:52, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Criteria

GA Criteria
GA Criteria: 1 1.a Y 1.b Y 2 2.a Y 2.b Y 2.c Y 2.d Y 3 3.a Y 3.b Y 4 4.a Y 5 5.a Y 6 6.a Y 6.b Y

• No DAB links Y
• No dead links Y
• No missing citations Y

Prose Suggestions

Please note that almost all of these are suggestions, and can be implemented or ignored at your discretion. Any changes I deem necessary for the article to pass GA standards I will bold.

Early maneuvers

• with the goal of installing a pro-Union government at Little Rock was this government meant to compete for legitimacy with the Confederate one, or simply to begin the work of civil administration if that is known?
  • Competing, noted. Hog Farm _Talk 04:03, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
• which returned safely[18] with two men killed and six wounded suggest which returned safely[18], although with two men killed and six wounded
  • Done

Brownsville and Bayou Meto

• while Marmaduke with a rear guard would try to draw the Union troops into an ambush. does this mean he was using the rear guard specifically to draw them in, or simply that he had one while attempting this? Suggest while Marmaduke would try to use a rearguard to draw the Union troops into an ambush for the former, and while Marmaduke would would try to draw the Union troops into an ambush, protected by a rearguard for the latter.
  • It's the former, changed

Crossing the river

• Price had a little less than 8,000 men with which to defend Little Rock; about 6,500 were in the fortifications across the river and the rest were with Walker guarding river crossings south of the city. the lede says The overall Confederate commander, Major General Sterling Price, aligned most of his 8,000-man army in fortifications north of the Arkansas River, while some cavalry defended river crossings south of Little Rock.; it may bear repeating that Walker's forces were mostly cavalry.
  • Done

Aftermath

• Steele placed Davidson in command of the defense of the city, ordered the construction of defensive positions south of the city, had Isaac Murphy appointed as a provisional governor, and sent Powell Clayton to occupy Pine Bluff. you may wish to move here-on of the first paragraph to the second paragraph, to separate assessment from literal following events.
  • Moved paragraph break
• @Hog Farm: That is all of my suggestions. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 17:45, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
  • All but one of these are done, and I'll research that last point after work. Hog Farm _Talk 17:58, 29 July 2022 (UTC)