Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 00:55, 23 December 2007.

Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
I have been working on this article for around two months and think that it is of FA level. The article has also passed a WikiProject:Military history A-class rview and it has received a WikiProject:Military history peer review. All comments are appreciated. Kyriakos 20:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Restart, old nom. This has been stalled for six weeks, and on hold for four. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 18:22, 16 December 2007 (UTC) - Peripitus (Talk) 04:35, 17 December 2007 (UTC) Karanacs (talk) 16:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose: too short information. -- Brískelly  &#91;citazione necessaria&#93;  18:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Reply. Feature articles should be judged by quality not quantity and while I acknoledge that this article is fairly short, articles of small length have passed FAC for example, Battle of the Gebora. Kyriakos (talk) 20:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support with a few issues. The article appears comprehensive, well referenced, well illustrated and neutrally written.
 * There is overlinking of dates. eg: while 18 October in the lead makes sense, February 1082 does not and there are other surplus links.
 * The Bohemond advanced with his army - "The" is misplaced
 * The lead does not seem to adequately summarise the "Aftermath" section
 * command of the fleet and sailed at once, does not seem to specify which fleet the Doge took, was it his fleet or the Venetian one?
 * ordered to march a bit in front of the main line - perhaps "just in front" would describe this better
 * Varangians fled in the church - perhaps "fled into the church"
 * Weak support oppose  I would really like to support this article, but think it inadequately sourced still: Almost all of the narrative depends on Anna Comnena, who is notoriously biased, and Lord Norwich, who is a popular historian with a tendency to repeat his Byzantine source. The account of the betrayal of Dyrrhachium depends on Anna alone. Please consult some modern, scholarly, secondary source. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 06:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm in the city atm and I am going to the state library in the next few hours. So I should be able to find a few new secondary sources. Kyriakos (talk) 22:36, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I have gone to the State Library and found another source and have used it to back up most of the cits containing Anna and Lord Norwich. Kyriakos (talk) 00:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you; I will support as soon as the names are regularized. It is pointlessly confusing to speak of Anna Comnena and the Komnenian restoration in the same article. I realize that this will take time, and will be willing to polish it off myself. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I have finally managed to root all the others and regularise the names. Kyriakos (talk) 23:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Have you pinged Pmanderson and Karanacs? Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 00:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Appears to be done. Will try to dopyedit over the holidays. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 01:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support per previous nomination's comments of mine.--Yannismarou (talk) 13:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * last sentence of lead needs some work; "However, he was defeated by Alexius outside Larissa and was forced to retreat to Italy losing all Norman the Norman conquests."
 * is "Alexios" meant to be "Alexius"?
 * There is pronoun confusion in this sentence: "Robert had no intentions for peace; he sent his son Bohemond with an advance force towards Greece and he landed at Aulon, with Robert following shortly after"
 * Need to use non-breaking spaces between numbers and units. For example, use & nbsp; or ,
 * Be consistent between use of Robert and use of Guiscard to refer to him
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.