Talk:Stanley Price Weir/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 05:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

I will review this one in a few days. Zawed (talk) 05:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Comments

• In the lead, should public service commissioner, be in title case? It is later in the main body of article.
• "South Australian Volunteer Military Force": wikilink? Not necessarily for the SA bit, but for the VMF? May want to mention this later became the CMF.
• "Weir was promoted to colonel in the British forces.": British forces? I don't understand this given he was already a colonel in the CMF?
• "The battalion began disembarking...": presumably the 10th, not the 11th?
• "immediately urged the men of both the 9th Battalion and his own battalion": suggest rephrasing to "immediately urged both his men and those of 9th Battalion..."
• United Kingdom is wikilinked but no other countries are.
• "He rejoined the 10th Battalion in Egypt in March": this essentially repeats the previous sentence.
• "Battles of Pozières": I think you should extend the pipelink that the links to the Battle of Pozières to include the words "Battles of".
• In terms of layout, I wonder if you may want to break the WWI section into Gallipoli and Western Front sections, and move the last para of this section to the later life section.
• " and his AIF appointment was terminated on 14 December.": May want to say something to the effect that he was still in the CMF (or the AMF as it seems to have been known at this stage of the way. I think this would set it up better for his subsequent retirement from the military.
• The wikilink to brigadier general needs to be moved to its first mention earlier in the article.
• The Volunteer Officer's Decoration isn't mentioned in the body of the article.
• "On 8 June 1923, after many years of poor health, his wife Rosa died.": It may be better to deal with this when discussing Weir being survived by his second wife. I find it quite jarring reading about his wife's death, then him being removed from his Public Service role, then his second marriage. Alternatively perhaps move the stuff about the Public Service to follow the mention of the second marriage but reverse the order of content, i.e. in 1930, he was replaced as Public Services Commissioner following legislative changes introduced in 1925.
• "and lost a lot of blood": probably not necessary to state this as it has already been stated that he was badly injured.
• References: I think the weblinks could be integrated into the footnotes section rather than being listed as separate references.

Other stuff

• No dab links
• No duplicate links
• External links check OK
• Images have appropriate tags

Generally looks good, broadly covers the subject and appears to use good sources. Most of my comments relate to pretty minor prose and presentation stuff although I think a couple of comments will help improve the narrative flow. I'll check back in a few days. Cheers. Zawed (talk) 00:26, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Cheers, will ping you when done. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

@Zawed: all done, except the weblinks. These are my edits. I prefer to keep the weblinks in full in the References section with sfn ref anchors. See if the bit about the first wife flows better now? Thanks for the review! Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 06:16, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

OK, looks good and passing as GA. Cheers. Zawed (talk) 08:14, 28 January 2015 (UTC)