Talk:Battle of Caulk's Field/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Peacemaker67 (talk · contribs) 08:36, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

This article is in fine shape. Just a few comments:

• suggest adding Parker's rank to the lead and Reed's rank at a Lieutenant Colonel
  • Done
• wasn't the American militia force part of the 21st Infantry Regiment? See Marine [1] which has some more details like Parker's subordinate commanders. I acknowledge the age of Marine, but it appears to still be a reasonable quality source as it is still being reprinted as recently as 2017 and is held by many university libraries. I believe the 5th Infantry Regiment (United States) carries on the campaign honors of the 21st.
  • I can't access the main part of Marine (for some reason, for me, the Google Books preview gives me the table of contents and the appendix of names. [2] indicates the militia was the 21st Regiment of Maryland Milita (different than the 21st Infantry Regiment (United States). Since I can't access Marine, I'll hunt for more details in online sources, like the one linked above.
• Washington, D. C.→ Washington, D.C.
  • Done
• On August 24, British troops would defeated an American force
  • Fixed
• The British would then burned the American capital
  • Fixed
• I take it you are preferring Sharpe's numbers for the opposing sides rather than Marine? Perhaps it would be good to explain that reports of the numbers vary.
  • The four sources I've consulted so far all give various numbers. I've left the figure out of the main text and inserted a footnote explaining this whole conundrum.
• mislead→misled (unless this is an Americanism)
  • Fixed, spelling error
• suggest "from attemptingpressing their assault on Baltimore"
  • Changed
• on the morning on the 14th
  • Added th
• assualt→ assault
  • Fixed
• no idea what regiment(s) the British troops were from?
  • Need to research this further
    • Sources just give Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines. Nothing more specific than that.
• the formatting of the Further reading sources should be consistent with the Sources section (eg the placing of the year of publication etc)
  • Done
• is there a location for Elting?
  • Most specific given within the book is "USA"
    • Worldcat says New York [3] Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 21:39, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
      • Thanks. added
• suggest adding the oclc for Marine 3399474
  • Added
• Shippensburg, Pa.? What does Pa. stand for?
  • Pennsylvania. Spelled out.
• the date parameter in the full Sharpe citation is throwing up an error, I suspect this is because you have used a ref tag citation in her case instead of sfn. I suggest you create a full citation for Sharpe in the Sources section and use ref={{harvid|Sharpe|2013|p=}} and a citation of {{sfn|Sharpe|2013|p=}}
  • Citation style for Sharpe changed as suggested
• it would be good if you could be a bit more granular with the citations to Sharpe as well (ie one or two pages for info like the first sentence of the Battle section.
  • Using exact page numbers now
• could you throw in an image of Parker or Reed, File:Captain Peter Parker (1785-1814), by John Hoppner.jpg has good licensing and he was killed in this action, so a good choice imho.
  • Added an image of Parker

That's all I could find, placing on hold for the above to be addressed. Nice work thus far. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:33, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

This article is well-written, verifiable using reliable sources, covers the subject well, is neutral and stable, contains no plagiarism, and is illustrated by an acceptably licensed image with an appropriate caption. Passing. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:04, 6 May 2020 (UTC)