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Special reconnaissance
Peer review requested 2007-12-17 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcberkowitz (talk • contribs)

Kirill Lokshin
Quite nice, overall. A few points to consider:
 * The article unpredictably mixes footnotes and parenthetical citations; you should really decide on one style and use it throughout.
 * Agreed -- I thought I had converted all to footnotes, but apparently I missed some. Will fix. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 03:57, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Large portions of the article are uncited; this is particularly important with topics such as this one, where the bulk of the material is not common knowledge.
 * In some cases, I worked from one source and put the material in consecutive paragraphs. My general rule was that until I gave a new citation, it referred to the same source. Is there a better practice?
 * The typical convention for large sections from the same source(s) is to cite each paragraph; this minimizes the chance of running into later problems if some other editor inserts a paragraph from another source in the middle of a section with no intermediate citations. Kirill 04:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Some bulleted lists may be appropriate, but others (e.g. in the "Infiltration" section) can be reasonably rewritten as prose.
 * There's something symbolically wrong with avoiding bullets in MILHIST, at least for an article after they've been invented. :-) Will look at these. I definitely want to use them for explaining acronyms such as CARVER.


 * Long quotes should use blockquote formatting.
 * There may be some formats I need to learn. I've used angle brackets blockquote /blockquote more these days, but I think I've seen some other formatting methods.

Keep up the good work! Kirill 03:49, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Bolding should only be used for the title of the article, not as a means of emphasis within the text.
 * OK. If you have any suggestions for additional national practices, they'd be very welcome.Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 03:57, 4 January 2008 (UTC)