Talk:Wiltshire Regiment

Wrong

This page is all wrong. The 1st battalion of the Wilts Regiment was raised in 1756 at Torbay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.75.236.71 (talk) 13:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

That was the predecessor formation, the 62nd. I've split the article now to better reflect that they were distinct units. Shimgray | talk | 16:20, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Dana boomer (talk) 20:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi! I will be reviewing this article for GA status, and should have the full review up shortly. Dana boomer (talk) 20:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   • The lead needs to be expanded. For an article of this length, three to four good sized paragraphs would be appropriate. The lead should summarize the entire article, without including new information.
   • There are a lot of really short paragraphs in the article, which make it choppy and harder to read. Could some of these be combined?

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   • Web references need to have publishers and access dates added in many cases.
   • There are a bunch of dead links in the references, see here.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   • I believe the image File:Ginginpainting.jpg needs to specify the painter and the date (or approximate date).
   • Some of your image captions are quite long. Please work to make them more concise.
   • The images appear to be crowded towards the top half of the article, with text sandwiched between images and a general cluttered feeling. However, the bottom half of the article has only one image, and large blocks of text with no images are present. Perhaps move some of the images in the top part of the article to the bottom part?

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

The above is the result of my first pass through the article. Once work has begun on these (especially work on the publishers in web refs and removing the dead links), I will complete a more thorough review of source reliability and prose. Overall, it looks like a nice article, and it's obvious that you've put a lot of work into it. Please let me know if you have any questions. Dana boomer (talk) 21:43, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

As no work has been completed on this article during the time period of the review, I am failing this article's GA nomination. I look forward to seeing it back at GAN when the above issues have been addressed. Dana boomer (talk) 19:27, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

99th. Regiment.

Hello. The 99th. Regiment, besides starting of in Van Diemens Land Tasmania (australia); also was despatched to Western Australia(Swan River Colony) in 1849 approx. Was here in 1850 for maybe 10 years. This does not appear in your chapter, Western Australia, nor makes mention of the fact in the story concerning them in Tasmania.

I am really busy writing a book on some W.A. history and can definitely associate them with this State.

Thank you Kind regards Darrel McGuiness58.167.199.113 (talk) 05:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

That was a predecessor. See 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot. Moonraker (talk) 10:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

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Battle honours: Louisbourg 1758

This retrospective battle honour from 1758, listed in the cited source <regiments.org> has been omitted.

"Louisburg" [SIC] first authorised in 1882, is listed in <regiments.org> as "belatedly awarded 1910 for service of 62nd Regiment"

See: http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/062Wilts.htm

JF42 (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2022 (UTC)