Talk:5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate)

Background
Hi. If you are wanting to run this at ACR and possibly FAC then consider adding a bit of deep background on how the ACW started, both nationally and in Missouri. If you are stumped, I know where you can cut and paste something from. (Don't forget to attribute per WP:COPYWITHIN.) And this article, at 22kB, is currently small for a FAC - see graph showing the average size in kB of the individual FAC pages for both archived and promoted FACs. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:37, 4 August 2020 (UTC)


 * - It's been on my mind, but this one needs quite a bit of work yet, beyond the background. Tucker's only a medium-grade source, so he'll need support, and I'll need to dredge Google books for any other sources for comprehensiveness' sake.  That graphs a little scary for me: the three longest article's I've worked on significantly are the Newtonia one, this one, and Bledsoe's Missouri Battery.  All are under 25kb of readable prose.  I lack sources for key battles on Bledsoe, so that one won't even see ACR for likely a long time.  I'm getting ready to go back to university in a few weeks, and won't have room to take my books with me, so I've been trying to decide on whether I should try to crank out a couple more articles, or focus on improving already existing ones.  My hope is to have all of the infantry and artillery entries in Template:Missouri Confederate units navbox bluelinked someday (I lack sources for two of the campaigns most of the cavalry units were in, so I am not the editor to write those articles).  I hope you win your re-election for MILHIST coordinator come September, you've been doing a great job. Hog Farm Bacon 03:51, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , you worry too much. Peacemaker's current FAC is 22kB and that is not a problem. I was responding to your comment on GoCER that "Warning, it's a bit of a long one."
 * I don't really have an answer re the thinness of sourcing for some articles, other than what you are already doing: assign them a mental quality level which they won't be promoted over unless/until you find additional sources. Your tentative assignment of ACR to this one as an upper limit seems about right.
 * Working some deep background into articles at any level seems to me to be a good habit to get into. Personally I ask myself "If an intelligent undergraduate at a rural college in India were reading this, would they understand the context?"
 * Re what to work on: well I can tell you what I did, which may or may not help. I spent six months mostly working existing articles which took my fancy up to B class. Then 2 years ago I started doing some GANs. If you look at the icons at the top of my talk page, which are in chronological order, you can see that I generated quite a few before trying my first ACR, and got several of those before my first FAC. So by the time I was in full FA production mode I had a solid foundation to work on. I also kept/keep a note of articles which I may care to improve some time in the future - a real grab bag, see here, especially right at the bottom. So if I am away from my sources it is easy to find something to keep me amused which can be improved via online sources.
 * Sounds as if you need someone to buy you this for Christmas.
 * Have fun, take care.
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 09:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds as if you need someone to buy you this for Christmas.
 * Have fun, take care.
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 09:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Have fun, take care.
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 09:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 09:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC)