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- RMAF Regiment - Made some edits, mostly minor. Just stumbled on it. Ominae (talk) 03:35, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Ominae: need to review these articles a little more carefully - unless someone else gets to them first. In the meantime, please add a citation to the Colonel-in-Chief section. It can be assessed no higher than C class without the citation Thanks Donner60 (talk) 09:32, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Np. I think the bot rated it already. Ominae (talk) 04:11, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Ominae: need to review these articles a little more carefully - unless someone else gets to them first. In the meantime, please add a citation to the Colonel-in-Chief section. It can be assessed no higher than C class without the citation Thanks Donner60 (talk) 09:32, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- RMAF Jugra Air Base - Same as above.
- @Ominae: This article also needs a little more careful review. Again, please add citations for the A new ground force squadron was established here subsection and tenant units section. The article can be assessed no higher than C class without them. Donner60 (talk) 09:44, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Np. I think the bot rated it already. Ominae (talk) 04:11, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- Miller's Cornfield — A significant part of the Antietam battlefield in the early stages of the battle. STPatrick1982 (talk) 12:15, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- Your reference 13 leads to a dead page. The following sentence, which ends a paragraph, is unreferenced. This will be B class when these two small problems are fixed - or the material is deleted. Donner60 (talk) 22:21, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
- @STPatrick1982: B class. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:53, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- @STPatrick1982 and Donner60: - what is "This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Antietam" which is referenced suppose to be? Cozzens' work by the title "This Terrible Sound" is about Chickamauga and I'm unaware of any Antietam book by him. Hog Farm Talk 04:23, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for catching this. I will review this assessment. (Full disclosure: I have the Cozzens book and should have caught this). Donner60 (talk) 05:58, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- @STPatrick1982@Hog Farm There are other very serious problems with the citations and references in this article. It certainly needs major cleanup if it is to be kept at all or further attention is not to be brought to it. The The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1 – Fort Sumter to Perryville was written by Shelby Foote, not William L. Shea. I found no such book by Shea. I have the Foote book with this title. The cited pages are about the Battle of Pea Ridge. The citations to Hartwig, David, I Dread the Thought of this Place are without page numbers. That is apparently because the citations are to a Project Muse summary of the book, not the book itself, obviously not a good reference. If one has access to Muse, the entire book is available. (Yes, I have that book too. I also met the author some years ago as he is, or was, an NPS historian/ranger.) Of course, the pages cited to the Cozzens book deal with the Battle of Chickamauga. The citations to Reardon and Vossler are also without page numbers. There are no ISBN numbers in 11 of the 15 citations. I have added a template about citations not verifying the text and a few specific failed verification tags. I will reassess for now. Donner60 (talk) 07:54, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- The Cozzens and Shea citations were my mistakes and I removed them. I provided page numbers for Sears because I have a hard copy. I don't have hard copies of Hartwig and Reardon & Vossler but I can edit in chapters instead of page numbers. I will also add ISBNs. STPatrick1982 (talk) 23:19, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- The citations should all be fixed now. For the books that are ebooks, I added chapters since I can't add page numbers, since that is what the site said to do. STPatrick1982 (talk) 00:12, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
- "The site"? Probably going to B class on this in a few days. Note that chapter numbers may be ok since the text appears to be correct based on other sources but they would prevent a higher level assessment unless page numbers are cited. Donner60 (talk) 03:57, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
- @STPatrick1982@Hog Farm There are other very serious problems with the citations and references in this article. It certainly needs major cleanup if it is to be kept at all or further attention is not to be brought to it. The The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1 – Fort Sumter to Perryville was written by Shelby Foote, not William L. Shea. I found no such book by Shea. I have the Foote book with this title. The cited pages are about the Battle of Pea Ridge. The citations to Hartwig, David, I Dread the Thought of this Place are without page numbers. That is apparently because the citations are to a Project Muse summary of the book, not the book itself, obviously not a good reference. If one has access to Muse, the entire book is available. (Yes, I have that book too. I also met the author some years ago as he is, or was, an NPS historian/ranger.) Of course, the pages cited to the Cozzens book deal with the Battle of Chickamauga. The citations to Reardon and Vossler are also without page numbers. There are no ISBN numbers in 11 of the 15 citations. I have added a template about citations not verifying the text and a few specific failed verification tags. I will reassess for now. Donner60 (talk) 07:54, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for catching this. I will review this assessment. (Full disclosure: I have the Cozzens book and should have caught this). Donner60 (talk) 05:58, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- @STPatrick1982 and Donner60: - what is "This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Antietam" which is referenced suppose to be? Cozzens' work by the title "This Terrible Sound" is about Chickamauga and I'm unaware of any Antietam book by him. Hog Farm Talk 04:23, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- @STPatrick1982: B class. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:53, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- Your reference 13 leads to a dead page. The following sentence, which ends a paragraph, is unreferenced. This will be B class when these two small problems are fixed - or the material is deleted. Donner60 (talk) 22:21, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
- 498th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Expanded and referenced. Please review for B Class. Thanks. Lineagegeek (talk) 22:02, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
- It appears that many, perhaps all(?) of the items in the Lineage section and subsections are cited earlier in the text. Please repeat these for the uncited items or the various topics for all in a subsection or add citations to any items that do not have them elsewhere. Then B class. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 05:58, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
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