Talk:Wade's Missouri Battery

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Harrias in topic GA Review
Good articleWade's Missouri Battery has been listed as one of the Warfare 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
June 4, 2020Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 30, 2020.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the men of Wade's Battery attempted to tunnel beneath enemy lines during the Siege of Vicksburg?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk21:36, 25 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Moved to mainspace by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 21:27, 24 May 2020 (UTC).Reply

  •   Hi Hog Farm, review follows: article moved to main space 24 May; article exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; all sources used are offline books, happy to AGF there is no overly close paraphrasing from these; hooks are interesting enough for me, mentioned in the article and cited inline; again, happy to AGF on hook sourcing; a QPQ has been carried out. No issues here, that I can see - Dumelow (talk) 08:35, 25 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Name of battery comment

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To the author: Thanks for writing this much-needed article! If you write more articles about Civil War artillery batteries, I suggest naming them like this: "Wade's Missouri Battery" because the state name is almost always included in orders of battle. I see that Virginia battery articles don't include the state name, but almost all Union batteries do. Djmaschek (talk) 02:45, 2 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

GA Review

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Reviewer: Harrias (talk · contribs) 10:49, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Reply


Go on, I'll take a look at this one too. Harrias talk 10:49, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Prose
  • "..the battery would be engaged at the Battle of Pea Ridge." Wouldn't "was" work better than "would be" here?
    • Fixed. Use of "would" is a really bad habit of mine
  • Dab "Army of the West" to Army of the West (1862).
    • Done
  • "..in what one historian has referred to as "wild disorder."" Do we know which historian? If so, name them.
    • Named. Also adjusted for the fact that the reference was to a co-authored book, so it was two of them.
  • Remove the link to Guibor's Battery in Corinth, it was already linked earlier.
    • Removed
  • "In December, Captain Wade would be promoted.." Again, I'd prefer "was" to "would be".
    • Fixed
  • I'm confused about the first paragraph of the 1863 section. It finishes by saying "After Wade's death, Lieutenant Richard C. Walsh assumed command of the battery.", but this had already happened in the previous paragraph hadn't it?
    • Oops, removed the redundancy
  • Also, the penultimate sentence of that paragraph starts "Wade's battery was attached..": capitalise "Battery".
    • Fixed
  • Remove the link to John S. Bowen in 1863, it was already linked earlier.
    • Removed
Images
  • Both images are appropriately captioned and licensed.
Sourcing
  • All references are to reliable sources, and citations are consistently formatted in an appropriate style.

Again, a nice and neat article with little work needed to meet the GA criteria. Nice work. Harrias talk 12:29, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Reply