Talk:Catalonia Offensive

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Suggestions[edit]

G'day, I've updated the assessment of this article to B class as I believe that it meets the criteria. I have a couple of suggestions for further improvement:

  • in the lead, this doesn't quite make sense: "The Catalonia Offensive was part of the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army started the offensive on December 23, 1938, and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia with its capital city from October 1937" (what does "from October 1937" mean? At the start of the paragraph it says that the offensive began in December 1938). This should be clarified;
  • in the Combatants section, the article says "led by the general Davila", but doesn't clarify who this is. Could his/her full name be provided and or a link be added?
  • currently the article uses two different date formats. The first half appears to use "month day, date" (e.g "December 23, 1938") but the second half appears to use "day month year" (e.g. "26 January 1939"). Either style is fine, but consistency is best, particularly if you are looking at taking this article towards some of the higher ratings (e.g. GA/A etc.);
  • I'm not sure if it is just my display/screen/computer, but currently the text in "The retreat" section is sandwiched between two images. I've possible, it would be best to move the images so that they are offset;
  • I recommend using some form of short citation for your "Notes" or inline citations as you are currently reproducing a lot of information in the notes. Some examples of Spanish Milhist Featured Articles that use some form of short citation are: Spanish conquest of Guatemala, The Third of May 1808, Battle of Albuera.This is not mandatory, though, so long as your citation system is consistent;
  • the web citations (for instance # 51, 53 and 55) should be formatted in some way so that the url chains are not displayed. Additionally details such as author (if identifiable), publisher, title and access date should be presented. You can use the {{cite web}} template for this, but its use is not mandatory;
  • section titles: by convention Military history articles at higher levels of assessment tend to avoid using "The" in the section titles/headers. For instance, instead of "The retreat", it would be acceptable simply to use "Retreat", same with "The battle" --> "Battle". Additionally, "The combatants" might be better simply as "Opposing forces" or something similar;
  • if you want to take this to a higher assessment, the image licences will need to be air tight. A couple might need work in this regard. For instance, "File:Soldados nacionales entrando en Barcelona el 26 de enero de 1939. Foto ante el convento de Pompeya, en la Diagonal.jpg" should have its description and sourcing details translated into English for verification purposes. The licence also needs to be checked. It is using "author's life + 70", so it needs to clear that the author died at least 70 years ago. Please forgive my lack of Spanish, but I think that the licence is saying that the author is "Vicente Rojo". If this is the Vicente Rojo Lluch on which we have an article, then it appears that he passed away in 1966. This would mean that his photograph wouldn't be in the public domain until 70 years after 1966, which is 2036. The image would therefore probably need to be removed, unfortunately, unless a different licence is applicable (sorry, I'm not an image expert);
  • I think that the same issue exists with "File:Ultima sesion de las Cortes en Figueras. Hablando, Negrin. Sentado detras, Martinez Barrio.jpg";
  • Anyway, good work so far with the article. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 00:07, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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