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B class review

Please first address the following items. Then ping me and I will assess as B class. Djmaschek (talk) 22:05, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A note says there are "cite journal" errors. Please investigate and fix.
There is an uncited list of Folard's publications. Please cite. If they are all listed under one source, you could insert this line. "Folard authored the following books.[citation]"
The French-language caption is not helpful to most English readers. Please translate. Here is the Google version which sounds as good as any: "Cannon that fires while marching at the head of a line, according to the Swedish method."

I cannot figure out what is the cite journal error. My only guess is that there is no "access-date" parameter when the "url" parameter is listed. Djmaschek (talk) 22:30, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Djmaschek:

I cannot for the life of me work out what the journal errors are (tried adding access dates);

Rewrote caption on illustration;

Added Source for works. Thanks Robinvp11 (talk) 08:49, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

B class. We will let the journal error slide. I edited the publication citation. Djmaschek (talk) 04:04, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jean Charles, Chevalier de Folard, commonly referred to as the Chevalier de Folard

John Smith, commonly referred to as Smith???Xx236 (talk) 12:25, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

French version: Jean-Charles ou Charles de Folard, dit le Chevalier de Folard. It's something different.Xx236 (talk) 12:30, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Don't mind what he's called but all the Sources I've used (French and English) refer to him as Chevalier de Folard (not just in the title), or de Folard.Robinvp11 (talk) 17:29, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, I should have written "Smith, commonly referred as the Smith". BTW - why don't you correct the page according to your above statement?Xx236 (talk) 06:26, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki problem to be solved

Xx236 (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested edits

In the second paragraph on the War of the Spanish Succession, I'm not sure where the source (Coynart) got his information, but as I recall from Folard's own acount of the Battle of Cassano he was only wounded in the arm (had a finger shot away), not the stomach. This needs to be checked.

In a question of phrasing further along (the first para of Military Theories), Frederick the Great did not find his work "diamonds in a dung heap" but rather parts of his work: "Il avoit enfoui des diamans au milieu du fumier..." GianniBGood (talk) 10:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some changes as suggested, thanks Robinvp11 (talk) 19:18, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]