Wikipedia:Peer review/Francisco Cano/archive1

Francisco Cano

I've listed this article for peer review because this article has been expanded quite a bit from where it started. A few sources were used to expand this article out from a stub, to become a bit more fleshed out. In particular, I'd want to see if the tone of the article is encyclopedic, whether it is arranged logically, and how this article could be improved in terms of sourcing and prose. Finally, I'd like to make sure that anyone who is interested in (a) conquistadors or (b) Spanish history would find this page useful.

Thanks, Themane2 (talk) 08:15, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Comments/suggestions:

Hi and thanks for working to expand this article. The article is arranged logically, and is mostly encyclopedic, though improved use of references could make it a more useful resource and avoid the pitfalls of overstatement or WP:OR. A few comments/suggestions follow.Dialectric (talk) 16:56, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

• For example, ‘His work in the mines was a major asset in the expanding metal trade…’ may be overstating his impact unless you have support from a reference that shows the importance he played in mining or his mine played in the history of the trade. Calling his exploration the “final conquest of the Aztec legacy“ may be similarly overstating unless refs support this.

• The ‘Early life’ section is unreferenced, as is the ’Land claims’ section. Apart from the lede, for a historical biography article, each section should have references.

• The references to books used in the article lack page numbers. Page numbers are helpful for others looking up refs to expand upon content and/or check facts.

• Years of service in the infobox only lists 1568, a surprisingly short time. If he served for more than a year but total service is unknown, you may want to reflect that in the infobox.

• Is there a reference that shows he died in New Spain? Some conquistadors returned to Spain after their service.

Thank you for the review and your suggestions. I myself find a lot of the information in the article a bit.. speculative, to say the least. The problem is that the sources really are not a biography of this conquistador, but in fact are based on a historical event that this conquistador took part in. Because of that, I think more sources would be needed to try and determine more about his early life, as well as when and where he died. There isn't a lot of solid info out there about this man. I have been trying to find more in Google Books. I might have to see if there are any sources in Spanish, which I'm assuming there must be, since his exploits were mostly in the Spanish Empire (and a couple of undiscovered regions in Northern Mexico).

Since he was a captain, which is an officer rank, that indicates that he probably did serve for a number of years, not just one. That's one of the things I'm going to try and find sources on.

I will add page numbers where possible, and I'll try and find references for each section, if I can, as well as attempt to verify some of the claims made about how influential this exploration. --Themane2 (talk) 00:46, 13 August 2018 (UTC)