Sources look good, however as I do not have access to them I cannot verify facts/lack of copyvio; will assume good faith though.
"Cevallo" in the lead - is this a typo?
May wish to add modern context that Colonia del Sacramento is in modern-day Uruguay
What national writing style is this article in? I see -ise spellings, but miles and MDY dates.
The two links to "Undeclared war" seem like
WP:EASTEREGG links as people may expect them to lead to
undeclared war - suggest rewording to incorporate the name of the war as well for clarity.
Add a comma after "Brigadier General Vicente da Silva da Fonseca"
"led two columns" - what does this mean?
"Portuguese governor Eloy Madureira" - governor of what?
Aftermath:
Not a big deal, but is it possible for the first quote to be paraphrased? The specific wording doesn't seem too pertinent.
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Pepperoni8pizza: see the above notes. The article is very good and is pretty close to GA, just have a few comments/suggested changes, so I'm placing it on hold for now so you can make them. Thanks,
eviolite(talk)14:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)reply
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Pepperoni8pizza: Apologies but I have now taken a look at a copy of one of the books cited, specifically the Marley one, and I am pretty concerned about
close paraphrasing. For example, I took a look at the "Siege of Colonia del Sacramento" section, and it is very similarly formatted and written as the source material, just with a few words swapped out, which is a copyright/plagiarism issue (see again
the page on close paraphrasing.) As a result, and also since it's already been almost 7 days since I put the review on hold, I will unfortunately have to fail the nomination. You did very good work on the article but it needs to be reworded to fall into the guidelines for copyright violations.
eviolite(talk)03:22, 10 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Sources look good, however as I do not have access to them I cannot verify facts/lack of copyvio; will assume good faith though.
"Cevallo" in the lead - is this a typo?
May wish to add modern context that Colonia del Sacramento is in modern-day Uruguay
What national writing style is this article in? I see -ise spellings, but miles and MDY dates.
The two links to "Undeclared war" seem like
WP:EASTEREGG links as people may expect them to lead to
undeclared war - suggest rewording to incorporate the name of the war as well for clarity.
Add a comma after "Brigadier General Vicente da Silva da Fonseca"
"led two columns" - what does this mean?
"Portuguese governor Eloy Madureira" - governor of what?
Aftermath:
Not a big deal, but is it possible for the first quote to be paraphrased? The specific wording doesn't seem too pertinent.
@
Pepperoni8pizza: see the above notes. The article is very good and is pretty close to GA, just have a few comments/suggested changes, so I'm placing it on hold for now so you can make them. Thanks,
eviolite(talk)14:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)reply
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Pepperoni8pizza: Apologies but I have now taken a look at a copy of one of the books cited, specifically the Marley one, and I am pretty concerned about
close paraphrasing. For example, I took a look at the "Siege of Colonia del Sacramento" section, and it is very similarly formatted and written as the source material, just with a few words swapped out, which is a copyright/plagiarism issue (see again
the page on close paraphrasing.) As a result, and also since it's already been almost 7 days since I put the review on hold, I will unfortunately have to fail the nomination. You did very good work on the article but it needs to be reworded to fall into the guidelines for copyright violations.
eviolite(talk)03:22, 10 January 2022 (UTC)reply