Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Nicky Barr/archive1

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The article was promoted by SandyGeorgia 23:15, 6 January 2012 [1].

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Nicky Barr

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Nominator(s): Ian Rose (talk) 14:29, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

A Good Article last year that achieved MilHist A-Class a couple of months ago, this focusses on one of the most remarkable RAAF fighter aces of World War II, by virtue of the fact that his feats earned him not just the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, but also the Military Cross, a decoration generally awarded to army officers. For those who reviewed for A-Class, I've expanded upon his incarceration and escapes in Italy but otherwise made only minor changes since then. Thanks in advance for your comments...! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:29, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Support on prose per standard disclaimer. These are my edits. As usual with Ian's articles, not a lot for a copyeditor to say. Pout. - Dank (push to talk) 18:16, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Tks mate, there aren't many occasions a pout makes me happy, but this is one of them... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

• I own a copy of Dornan, please ping my talk page when we get to spotchecking (last 2/3rd of the fac list). Fifelfoo (talk) 09:26, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
• Support: another excellent bio, IMO. When I read the lead and saw that Barr had an MC, I thought this would be rare for a WWII RAAF pilot, and indeed as you clarify later it is. A very interesting individual. I have the following points for the review:
  • I found the prose very engaging. It was a pleasure to read. Well done;
  • there are no disambig links and the external links all work;
  • the images appear correctly licenced to me;
  • internet searches/spot checks revealed no copyvio issues on the internet (I have not done a paper based check, though);
  • Bobby Gibbes might be overlinked in the Later career section, having already been linked earlier (not a warstoper for me, though);
  • Thanks for your contribution to the encyclopedia! AustralianRupert (talk) 04:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
    • Yes, I think you're right about Gibbes, wilco. Many tks for review and kind words... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 08:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Sources and images

• Image licensing all fine under pre-1955 Australia rule
• Be consistent in whether you provide links in Herington shortened citations
• Be consistent on "Retrieved" vs "Retrieved on". Nikkimaria (talk) 17:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Tks Nikki, will tidy those up. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 08:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

• Support – Excellent all the way around. Can't really quibble with anything here. Giants2008 (Talk) 02:26, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Tks, appreciated. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 04:23, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

• Support – Agreed. Couldn't find anything to complain about either. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:45, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Cheers Hawkeye, Ian Rose (talk) 02:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

• Notes: per WP:MOS#Captions, I've corrected punctuation on one image caption, pls check throughout. I also see some citations have trailing puncutation, others don't.
  • My understanding is that short, sharp phrases in captions don't employ full stops, so I think you've caught the only likely instance, likewise the only two citations following spaces (because they were quotebox attributions and there was no punctuation). Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
• The article doesn't strictly adhere to WP:MOSNUM on spelling out digits, but it's consistent, so the author may have a reason for this (?); just be prepared to defend the reason from the folks at WP:ERRORS should the article go on the mainpage.
  • I tend to spell out one- or two-word quantities, ages, etc, in military articles because there are so many numbered units like wings, squadrons and so on using digits. As to the folks at WP:ERRORS, phasers on stun! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
• Is "He was also the Victorian Schoolboys 100 yards athletics champion ..." missing some hyphenation, and should "yards" be plural?
  • Re-checked source and exact expression is "Victorian Schoolboys' 100 yards championship", so I've added the plural possessive to "Schoolboys" but left "yards" plural. I don't mind hyphenating "100 yards" if that helps... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
• Confused, the lead mentions both P-40 Tomahawks and Kittyhawks, and later in the article refers to P-40 Kittyhawks, with no link anywhere to Kittyhawk. What's the distinction, could we get some links or clarification? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Blame Curtiss and the Commonwealth air forces! The P-40 family was given the generic name Warhawk by the Americans but the Commonwealth only ever used the names Tomahawk and Kittyhawk, assigned to models P-40D and P-40E respectively -- hopefully have clarified that now. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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