Talk:Ambush of Geary

Merge?
I've suggested Francis Geary (British Army officer) be merged in here - the man doesn't seem to have any real historical significance outside of this event, and it would seem better to give a quick one-paragraph biography of him in context here rather than sat out on its own. Shimgray | talk | 19:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)


 * If that's all that is really known about him, seems like a reasonable step.  Magic ♪piano 20:21, 8 February 2010 (UTC)


 * My thoughts exactly :-) - without this incident, I can't really see any reason we'd attach much significance to Geary without his having had a later career - he was 24, the son of a minor aristocrat, and had spent all his adult life doing very little at Oxford and then at the Army...
 * I'll give it a week and then merge if there's been no other feedback. Shimgray | talk | 00:26, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I did the merge. Feel free to add back some of the few details I didn't copy.  Magic ♪piano 18:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Notable?
Is this action honestly notable? This sort of thing happens in every war all the time and I see nothing here exceptional enough to deserve an article as opposed to an ambush somewhere else.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:29, 14 March 2010 (UTC)


 * While I'm not the originator of the article, I see it as more like a piece of local history than anything grandiose, given the minor controversy over what happened to the body. Wikipedia is full of pieces of local color (not just milhist, people write articles about public transit stops and such), and this one is (to me anyway) surprisingly well-documented for an incident of its size. (On the other hand, there seems to be some sort of mystique about the revolution that Americans feel they have to document every little event that happened.  Me, I'm just working through articles in a campaignbox, trying to improve them. I probably would not have created the article, but I'm also not a deletionist.)  Magic ♪piano 18:42, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm certainly not going to put up for AfD as I was surprised on the amount of information available.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)