Talk:July 18, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border clashes/GA1

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Reviewer: FunkMonk (talk · contribs) 13:39, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

• Hi, I'll review this. FunkMonk (talk) 13:39, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
• The first sentence of the intro is very complex and information-packed, I'm wondering whether it could start out a bit "softer". Perhaps some of the info could be moved to a new sentence after the first one.

All done so far, FunkMonk. 23 editor (talk) 01:31, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

• "who formed a majority there before the mid-19th century but by 1990 represented only about ten percent of the population." Will it be too much to briefly explain how this happened?
• "Once Kosovo's autonomy was abolished" Which was when?
• "fueling the Kosovar uprising that eventually erupted in the spring of 1998." Anything this can link to?
• "foreign mujahideen fighting" Could be explained what this means. "Foreign Islamist fighters" or some such, just to be completely clear.
• "subsequently seized by the authorities." Which authorities?
• "Over the course of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Wars, a rump federation consisting of Serbia (including Kosovo) and Montenegro proclaimed itself the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." Perhaps clarify whether this means it was a de-facto Serbian state?
• Was there no international reaction to the role of mujahideen in the clash?
• The intro doesn't explain that the Yugoslav Army was apparently a Serbian force. The article body doesn't make this clear either.

All done, FunkMonk. Some points:

• "Once Kosovo's autonomy was abolished" (the article states this was in '89 just a few sentences earlier)
• "fueling the Kosovar uprising that eventually erupted in the spring of 1998" (unfortunately no article at present, if there were it would probably link to 1998 Kosovo summer offensive)
• "Was there no international reaction to the role of mujahideen in the clash?" (unfortunately I haven't been able to find any via Google, Newspapers.com, etc. The EU issued a condemnation but didn't explicitly mentioned the Islamists, though US officials were no doubt pleased given they had requested that the KLA limit the influence of foreign mujaheddin in their ranks).

Regards, 23 editor (talk) 17:40, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Nice, seems all that could be done has been done, so will now pass the article. FunkMonk (talk) 22:27, 25 March 2016 (UTC)