Talk:Operation Windsor/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Based on the Good Article criteria:

Please expand the lead to two paragraphs
'Although the D-Day objective of British forces landing on Sword Beach, heavy German resistance prevented Caen from being captured on 6 June 1944.' - I would put the 6 June 1944 date at the start of the section by the Overlord link, then just state that Caen wasn't captured by 6 June without the year.

Fixed. Cam ^(Chat) 04:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is 'attritional position-warfare' - can it be clarified? I realize it does in the second part of the sentence, but it's a tad jargon-y

Fixed(ish). Cam ^(Chat) 04:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'employing minefields, field-gun and machine-gun emplacements' - Can you wiklink the minefield, machine gun etc?

Fixed. Cam ^(Chat) 04:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'As a means of adding heavy-calibre firepower to the initial bombardment, the 16 inches (41 cm) guns of the battleship HMS Rodney' - the template needs to be altered to read 'inch' instead of 'inches'

Unfortunately, the template won't change that. I'll just manually do it. Cam ^(Chat) 04:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'In the centre, the Chaudières were much of the fire directed at The North Shore Regiment as they advanced on Carpiquet' - needs clarifying, as it's not obvious what this means

Whoah, I'm not entirely sure how "were" was put there. It was supposed to be "avoided". Woopsies. Cam ^(Chat) 04:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'To the south, the Royal Winnipeg Rifles advanced slowly towards the airfield, with German mortar fire inflicting heavy casualties on advancing infantry and armour alike.[1] It would take the RWR 90 minutes to advance the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) between Marcelet and the hangars of the airfield.[13] Only with eventual indirect fire support from an available squadron of the 10th Armoured Regiment was the RWR able to advance to the airfield.[13][1] Several Sherman tanks were knocked out, and by midday the Royal Winnipeg's were forced to withdraw halfway to their original positions.[13]' - In this paragraph, the battalion is referred to with several different abbreviations - can one be picked?

Done. Cam ^(Chat) 04:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'It took a combination of infantry attacks, flame-throwers, petard-tanks, and immolation of the strongpoint to force the remaining 12 defenders to surrender' - this refers only to a single strongpoint, but multiple ones are mentioned in the previous sentence.

Clarified

Excellent article, will pass when the issues above have been solved. Skinny87 (talk) 11:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]