56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot was a Warfare good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | ||||||||||
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I'm terribly sorry, but there is simply no way I can pass this for GA at this stage. Huge sections of the article are lacking in citations for events and no secondary sources (i.e. books) have been used for citations. Whilst I do give kudos for the primary sources, this article must have extensive referencing from secondary sources to come close to being ready for GA. For the books mentioned, particulaly the Richard Cannon and the website which are devoted to this topic, you must make clear where information from these is being used to construct the article.
Even if the citations were OK, there are other problems. The article needs more on this unit's activites, which are laid out here like a list. Some discussion of the units achievements (i.e. what outcome resulted from their participation in these actions) is needed rather than the very narrative progression used here. The paragraphs are also too short and you should consider amalgamating the shorter ones together to make a chunkier block of text which can give more narrative flow and allow for more discussion. It might also be a nice touch, if the Times articles mention the regiment specifically, to include excerpts from them (as they are out of copyright) to illustrate the regiment's reputation and name. Likewise this can be done with the Cannon text as that too is out of copyright.
Although they are not essential to the GA process, some more pictures, especially of the regiment in action, would really brighten the piece up. Its something to think about. In all, this is not a bad start and is verging towards a B-Class article (needs just a few more citations). However, it isn't there yet and is still some distance off a GA. Good Luck, I recommend thoroughly citing the piece using more texts than simply the Times and then reapplying after giving the article a fleshing out and a thorough copyedit. All the best.-- Jackyd101 23:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot was a Warfare good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | ||||||||||
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I'm terribly sorry, but there is simply no way I can pass this for GA at this stage. Huge sections of the article are lacking in citations for events and no secondary sources (i.e. books) have been used for citations. Whilst I do give kudos for the primary sources, this article must have extensive referencing from secondary sources to come close to being ready for GA. For the books mentioned, particulaly the Richard Cannon and the website which are devoted to this topic, you must make clear where information from these is being used to construct the article.
Even if the citations were OK, there are other problems. The article needs more on this unit's activites, which are laid out here like a list. Some discussion of the units achievements (i.e. what outcome resulted from their participation in these actions) is needed rather than the very narrative progression used here. The paragraphs are also too short and you should consider amalgamating the shorter ones together to make a chunkier block of text which can give more narrative flow and allow for more discussion. It might also be a nice touch, if the Times articles mention the regiment specifically, to include excerpts from them (as they are out of copyright) to illustrate the regiment's reputation and name. Likewise this can be done with the Cannon text as that too is out of copyright.
Although they are not essential to the GA process, some more pictures, especially of the regiment in action, would really brighten the piece up. Its something to think about. In all, this is not a bad start and is verging towards a B-Class article (needs just a few more citations). However, it isn't there yet and is still some distance off a GA. Good Luck, I recommend thoroughly citing the piece using more texts than simply the Times and then reapplying after giving the article a fleshing out and a thorough copyedit. All the best.-- Jackyd101 23:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)