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Reviewer: María ( habla con migo) 17:41, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I'll be reviewing this article for Good Article-status. While military history isn't a major concentration of mine on Wikipedia, I feel I have a strong enough knowledge of MacArthur and his accomplishments to take on this major task; as a side note, I volunteered at the memorial in Norfolk, VA for several years as a teenager, and I still have the t-shirt to prove it! :) This is a formidable page, to say the least, so it may take me several days to complete my comments. Thank you for your patience, and if you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me via my talk page. María ( habla con migo) 17:41, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. After reading the article in its entirety, I've found very little to fault or question; typically I list comment upon comment, complete with nitpicky grammar suggestions, during a GA review. However, this article is actually very excellent, and far above and beyond the majority of GAs that one typically sees. Here is how it stands against the criteria:
In short, this is an obvious pass. I do, however, have a few technical comments:
Again, this is an excellent article, and I feel like a useless reviewer as a result! However minor, I hope the above suggestions help. Best of luck with the A-class review, and whatever may come after. If you have any questions about this review, or would like further input, please let me know. María ( habla con migo) 23:18, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
For argument's sake, I'll state that perhaps everything said in this article is true. The problem is that there are too many things that were left unsaid that show that MacArthur was a first-class phony who had two sets of standards: one for himself and his cronies, and one for other people. To get a better picture of the above, books such as The Ghost Mountain Boys (the truth about the New Guinea campaign), The Coldest War (how he used press conferences to take credit for Ridgeway's actions), Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants & Their War (to see why FDR let DM get away with screw-ups he relieved others for), and Embracing Defeat (how the Japanese used DM and not the other way around), among others. Honors were fine for him, but not for others. He tried to derail Wainwright's MoH, among others. All you need to do is sit down and listen to veterans of the South Pacific campaign to learn how much they hated DM. This guy had his good points, but he was far from perfect. And the article does not let us know that. After saying that, I refuse to get involved further as I am willing to admit I probably can't take a rational approach to MacArthur's career. As a kid, I thought he was God personified, but there is far too much evidence that he was blind to his faults, used others (including his troops) and rewrote history as it suited him. I'll never forgive him for ignoring (and whitewashing) the Japanese biowarfare experiments that killed over 500,000 Chinese and used living American and Australian POWs for medical experiments, including dissection. Thomas R. Fasulo ( talk) 00:13, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
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Reviewer: María ( habla con migo) 17:41, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I'll be reviewing this article for Good Article-status. While military history isn't a major concentration of mine on Wikipedia, I feel I have a strong enough knowledge of MacArthur and his accomplishments to take on this major task; as a side note, I volunteered at the memorial in Norfolk, VA for several years as a teenager, and I still have the t-shirt to prove it! :) This is a formidable page, to say the least, so it may take me several days to complete my comments. Thank you for your patience, and if you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me via my talk page. María ( habla con migo) 17:41, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. After reading the article in its entirety, I've found very little to fault or question; typically I list comment upon comment, complete with nitpicky grammar suggestions, during a GA review. However, this article is actually very excellent, and far above and beyond the majority of GAs that one typically sees. Here is how it stands against the criteria:
In short, this is an obvious pass. I do, however, have a few technical comments:
Again, this is an excellent article, and I feel like a useless reviewer as a result! However minor, I hope the above suggestions help. Best of luck with the A-class review, and whatever may come after. If you have any questions about this review, or would like further input, please let me know. María ( habla con migo) 23:18, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
For argument's sake, I'll state that perhaps everything said in this article is true. The problem is that there are too many things that were left unsaid that show that MacArthur was a first-class phony who had two sets of standards: one for himself and his cronies, and one for other people. To get a better picture of the above, books such as The Ghost Mountain Boys (the truth about the New Guinea campaign), The Coldest War (how he used press conferences to take credit for Ridgeway's actions), Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants & Their War (to see why FDR let DM get away with screw-ups he relieved others for), and Embracing Defeat (how the Japanese used DM and not the other way around), among others. Honors were fine for him, but not for others. He tried to derail Wainwright's MoH, among others. All you need to do is sit down and listen to veterans of the South Pacific campaign to learn how much they hated DM. This guy had his good points, but he was far from perfect. And the article does not let us know that. After saying that, I refuse to get involved further as I am willing to admit I probably can't take a rational approach to MacArthur's career. As a kid, I thought he was God personified, but there is far too much evidence that he was blind to his faults, used others (including his troops) and rewrote history as it suited him. I'll never forgive him for ignoring (and whitewashing) the Japanese biowarfare experiments that killed over 500,000 Chinese and used living American and Australian POWs for medical experiments, including dissection. Thomas R. Fasulo ( talk) 00:13, 23 April 2010 (UTC)