Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Stanisław Koniecpolski

Stanisław Koniecpolski

An old FA (2005-2009) that I am bringing up to modern standards. Just passed GA. Comments on what can be improved for A-class appreciated. Please note that the book by Podhorecki is the best work on the subject, and that there are next to no English language sources (at least, no that go beyond some brief cursory treatment of the subject). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:05, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

AustralianRupert

• Good work so far. Just a few minor suggestions from me:
  • according to the Featured article tools, there are four disambig links that should be fixed: [1];
  • according to the Featured article tools, there is one external link that is dead and probably needs to be rectified: [2];
  • you might consider adding alt text to the images;
  • some of the hyphens should be endashes per WP:DASH. For instance in the date ranges and also page ranges in the citations. Also in text, for instance "Koniecpolski soon - on 16 January 1646 - married" - these should either be spaced endashes or unspaced emdashes. You appear to have used unspaced emdashes previously, so I'd stick with that;
  • in the Against Gustavus section, this appears to be a typo: "Gniew was retaken, Swedish plans thwarted, and their army weakened.]]."
  • there is some inconsistency in date format. For instance "April 2, 1627" and "18 April". These should be consistent;
  • the titles of books should be capitalised per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)#Composition titles. For instance, "Women in early modern Polish society, against the European background" should be "Women in Early Modern Polish Society, Against the European Background". AustralianRupert (talk) 04:36, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. Replies:

Fixed 3 out of 4. The 4th one is the Polish name for a village still somewhere in Russia/Ukraine. I don't know how to properly spell it, and it is not on the dab page...

Removed broken elink, was unnecessary

Added alt text

Is there a script to fix those?

Yes, I've run it over the article now. Please just check, though, that it hasn't broken anything. Cheers. AustralianRupert (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

I am not seeing a typo...

It was the two square brackets and the extra full stop. I've fixed them now. AustralianRupert (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Dates should be fine now

Titles capitalized

Thanks! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:02, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

No worries, keep up the good work. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Hohum

• Good work, but IMO it seems to be heavily overlinked. The density of blue and red links makes it difficult to read.
• (Hohum ^@) 15:03, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

• If you see any unnecessary links, please let me know. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:38, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Are all 30+ red links likely to become articles? Do carpet, election or aphrodisiac really need to be linked, for example? (Hohum ^@) 00:45, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Red links are notable per WP:RED (places, people, some battles). Carpet wasn't (unlinked - thanks), election was (free election), aphrodisiac seems rare enough to be linkable, too. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 02:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Fifelfoo

"there are next to no English language sources" bugger, can't those post-1989 Slavonic studies people in the US do something for us?

• "Jerzy Besala, Stanisław Żółkiewski" page range, publisher, citation out of style (see "Leszek Podhorodecki (1978)" for your style)
• "Norman Davies, God's playground," out of style, missing data
• Terminal periods is your style, check all citations for this before going MILHIST A. You become inconsistent mid way through the citation list
• R. Nisbet Bain (28 February 2006). and generally throughout: publisher locations per style (see "Leszek...")
• Clean up the page refs in: Daniel Stone (1 September 2001). The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386–1795. University of Washington Press. pp. 151–152. ISBN 9780295980935. Retrieved 9 March 2011. p. 158 and p. 195
• ps pps and n-dashes seem good
• How frustrating having to rely on one source! Damn academics. Fifelfoo (talk) 16:21, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean by terminal periods. If you mean the missing publisher locations, well, Google Books doesn't list them, so... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:21, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

"Barsa p. 20." has a terminal period; "Barsa p. 20" has no terminal period. Publisher locations are contained in Google Books in the Bibliographic details / Copyright page of the text (usually behind the title page and opposite the Table of Contents). Fifelfoo (talk) 02:10, 13 April 2011 (UTC)