Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Iraq War in Anbar Province


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Article promoted Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:51, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Iraq War in Anbar Province

 * Nominator(s): Palm_Dogg (talk)

I am nominating this article for A-Class review because it was recently withdrawn from a Featured Article Nomination, primarily over sourcing issues. It achieved Good Article status in February and I would very much like to renominate it for Featured Article as soon as possible. Comments and criticisms are always welcome! Fire away. Palm_Dogg (talk) 14:15, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Support on prose per standard disclaimer. I had a good look at this at the FAC. - Dank (push to talk) 03:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Support Comments: I'm happy to accept Dank's endorsement of prose and what I read (I couldn't get through all of it) looked quite good. Obviously a lot of work has gone into this. I have the following comments:
 * images: my current download plan is very limited, so I was only able to check the licences of some of the images in the article, but what I checked seemed appropriate to me;
 * I used the duplication detector tool to search for possible copyright violations. I set the tool to look for strings of five or more words that matched and discounted phrases that seem common. Due to download limitations I only looked at ten sources chosen randomly throughout the article. Over all it seemed fine, but I found one phrase that might need to be reworded:
 * "rounded up dozens of local police officers and publicly executed them in a soccer stadium" seems to be directly from here ;
 * Fixed. Palm_Dogg (talk) 00:35, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * not sure about this: "Iraq that would give immunity to American servicemen". Surely they were trying to negotiate something that would protect both male and female service personnel. Perhaps it would be best just to say "immunity to American service personnel"?
 * Fixed. Palm_Dogg (talk) 00:35, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * overall the article is very well referenced, but I wonder if the Footnotes themselves need to be referenced. Footnote 1, 4 and 6 probably need citations, IMO, although 2, 3, 5 and 7 are probably OK as they are. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 06:08, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd be down with referencing the footnotes; I just couldn't figure out how. Palm_Dogg (talk) 00:35, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * G'day, it depends upon the mark up coding that is being used. As much as I hate pointing to my own work, an example of where it is done is here: 2nd Battalion (Australia). Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:28, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Done! Thanks! Palm_Dogg (talk) 02:02, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. AustralianRupert (talk) 11:05, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Support Very readable account of operations in Anbar. Very well referenced. I could see no obvious problems. Good use of images and graphics. Cuprum17 (talk) 23:22, 22 June 2012 (UTC)


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