Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Reginald Judson

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Reginald Judson (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

For your consideration at A-Class, I present Reginald Judson, another one of New Zealand's WWI Victoria Cross recipients. He was awarded the VC having already received the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal; all three medals were awarded as a result of action across a four-week period in July/August 1918. I have done some expansion work in recent weeks and the article went through a GA review last month. I look forward to the feedback of reviewers and hopefully seeing this article be promoted to A-Class. Zawed (talk) 08:13, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Chetsford

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What a very nicely composed and comprehensive article. I support it! I have a few optional comments ...

  • MOS:LEADLENGTH says that articles fewer than 15K characters should have a lead of one or two paragraphs; this is just over 7K characters and has a three paragraph lead.
  • It doesn't appear there's an ALT for the image in the infobox.
  • In the section "interwar period" the acronym NZEF is invoked without previously being used in full form in the article. That said, on further review of MOS:ABBR this is, surprisingly, not a requirement.
  • Unable to return to his civilian trade of engineering due to his poor health, he subsequently found employment as a secretary at a school in Auckland. - I feel like the "his" prior to "poor health" may not be necessary and makes the sentence a bit choppy. But that's just personal opinion.
  • In September, Judson was a victim of a gassing attack and returned to England to recover his health. - Should that be "gas attack" instead of "gassing attack"? I may be wrong but I thought an "-ing" verb could only follow an infinitive and not visa versa.

Chetsford (talk) 06:12, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Chetsford: many thanks for the review, although I understood your comments to be optional, I have actioned them as I saw all of them as improvements. Thanks again for the feedback, much appreciated. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 10:04, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from AustralianRupert

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Support: G'day, Zawed, nice work. I have the following suggestions: AustralianRupert (talk) 01:38, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • "firstly at Cambridge and then at Aldershot": maybe clarify here that he did not return to the front before the war came to an end?
  • "Kate Wilson": is this name correct? The Taylor source says "Kate Marion Lewis (née Bailey)"
  • in the Second World War section, the capitalisation and grammar of "Guards Vital points Battalion" seems a little off. Is this how it is presented in the source? Grammatically it would probably be "Vital Points Guards Battalion", I'd have thought, but obviously we have to go with whatever the Army decided to name it officially.
  • in the same section, perhaps mention that he had to lie about his age to volunteer again, per Taylor
  • as the Second World War and Later life sections are very short, I'd suggest merging them together
  • one of his sons appears to have predeceased him, was this during the Second World War?
  • in the Citations, there is some inconsistency in how you present "New Zealand Herald" (see # 7 and 10) v "nzherald". IMO, citation 7 is probably the better style, unless they are to be treated as different sources, in which case I'd suggest changing it to "nzherald.co.nz"
  • "These were James Crichton, a private at the time, Harry Laurent and John Grant, both second lieutenants": I wasn't quite sure of the wording here. Perhaps: "These were James Crichton, a private at the time, and Harry Laurent and John Grant, both second lieutenants." or " These were Private James Crichton and Second Lieutenants Harry Laurent and John Grant."

Image review

  • Pretty sure that the image is that which was published in 1921 in an official history. Rather than edit the image, which is a WP file with a fair use tag, I have uploaded a replacement image to WikiCommons and used that in the infobox instead. Thanks for the image check. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 08:48, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Dank

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