Talk:Nigel Cullen
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GA Review edit
- This review is transcluded from Talk:Nigel Cullen/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Xtzou (Talk) 17:40, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I am reviewing this article. As it appears to fulfill the GA criteria, I have only a few comments.
- All fair questions, Xtzou -- from the top...!
- Early career
- "Browned off" with transport duties - what does this mean?
- Browned off is military slang for annoyed, fed up or just bored. I used it because it is a direct quote from the source, as well as apt given the military subject.
- Gladiators
- "He was "blooded"on 9 October" - what does this mean?
- Blooded means to initiate into combat -- but I've also seen the term used in competitive sport, e.g. cricket.
- Hurricanes
- "Cullen opened his account flying Hurricanes on 27 February" - is "opened his account" military terminology for something?
- Used in the military, yes, but not exclusively -- also sport (again cricket for instance) I believe -- means opened his score (of victories in this case).
- Since he flew for the RAF I am unclear why he is included in the official history of Australia in the war
- Presumably because he was Australian-born, even though he served in the RAF (a great many Australians did in WWII) and is counted as an Australian ace.
Xtzou (Talk) 17:40, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
- Reply Since "Browned off", "blooded", and "opened his account" appear to fall under "jargon" (or at least, are not understood by the general English-speaking reader - of which I am one), I think the terms should either be explained or linked to an explanation in the text. Xtzou (Talk) 00:05, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, I would think you would want an article about a war hero to be accessible to the general reader. The use of jargon terms makes parts of it meaningless. Best, Xtzou (Talk) 13:46, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. A nice little article about a war here that conveys something of his personality. Xtzou (Talk) 14:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
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Orphaned references in Nigel Cullen edit
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Nigel Cullen's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Boyne":
- From Marmaduke Pattle: Boyne 1997, p. 81.
- From Fiat CR.42: Boyne 1997 p. 81.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:48, 25 August 2010 (UTC)