Talk:Richard Trousdale/GA1
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Pickersgill-Cunliffe in topic GA Review
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Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 17:59, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I'll take this one. Will review shortly. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 17:59, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Prelim edit
- No duplicated links
- No edit war
- Looks like File:Richard Trousdale (cropped).jpg needs US PD, and the source link doesn't work
- Earwig reports copyvio unlikely
Lede and infobox edit
- If Trousdale was accepted into the RAF at the end of 1938, should this not be the date for when he joined the service?
- Might be useful to note what planes he flew in 255 and 409/488 as well
- Should it not be "he reformed No. 488 (NZ) Squadron"?
- Is there a more precise location for his death than "England"?
Early life edit
- "...
who wasa farmer in the area" to avoid too much "was"!
- Link Tiger Moths
- "He successfully completed..." are there any dates available for the events in this section?
- Link acting
- When did the bombing course occur?
- Suggest provide date of posting to 266 in Early life rather than at start of Second World War
Second World War edit
- "replaced by Supermarine Spitfire..." would these have been mark 1s, do you think?
- For the sake of consistency in the article, "RAF Martlesham Heath"? (ibid Wittering)
- Link flight
- "He also claimed a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter" in the same engagement? under the impression there were only 110s engaged
- "shifted" a little informal, no? Perhaps "moved" or "transferred" would be better
- Link dogfight
- "Eastchurch" and "Hornchurch" per previous cmt about naming of airfields, won't repeat again for later examples, assuming you'll have answered the query as a whole at the first instance!
- "A day afterwards" suggest providing the actual date here
- "shifted" per previous cmt
- "the squadron began patrolling..."
- Link tail
- "as it was tasked with the defence of the Midlands" this wording seems to suggest that being equipped with night fighters makes it obvious that they were defending the Midlands in particular, but I don't see a connection
- "working up to operational status" you've already said that the squadron was "operating from Kirton-in-Lindsey"?
- Have rephrased this section.
- Making an assumption that where non specific dates for kills are provided this is because the exact date isn't known, but if any more particular dates are known then they should obviously be included
- "July 1941" no need to repeat the year
- "posted to No. 409 Squadron" do we know if the acting rank continued in this posting?
- "By November the squadron was"
- "interception missions" concept likely needs explaining if there's no valid link
- "to the headquarters"
- "a training role" was he being trained or doing the training?
- Link test pilots
Service with RNZAF edit
- "with his short service commission in the RAF at an end" is this before the end of the war or after? A little strange to end when it did if it is the former, surely?
- "a variety of multi-engined aircraft" any pertinent examples?
- "On 16 June 1947" no need to repeat year
- "is credited with having destroyed..." this summary might work better placed at the end of his war service rather than after his death in peacetime
- What is the difference between the seventh "possible" kill and the three "probable" kills?
- "but subsequently returned to New Zealand to live" this seems like the sentence may have been cut off? If not, suggest rewording to "but subsequently returned to live in New Zealand"
References edit
- Ref #7 link does not work.
@Zawed: First read through completed. Will await your replies, and apologies that this wasn't a little faster in coming. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:10, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Pickersgill-Cunliffe: thanks for the thorough review, I have responded above and with edits to the article. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Zawed: Happy with those changes. Passing this as satisfying the GA criteria. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:42, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Pickersgill-Cunliffe: thanks for the thorough review, I have responded above and with edits to the article. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)