Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri

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Article promoted by AustralianRupert (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 05:06, 3 October 2016 (UTC) « Return to A-Class review list[reply]

Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri

Nominator(s): Constantine ✍

Another old GA from 2013, also from the era of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. Asad was a pivotal figure, being far-seeing enough to conciliate the local population (an unusual feature for an Umayyad governor), and laid the foundations for the Islamization of Central Asia in the process. More importantly, he defeated the Turgesh and the rebel Harith ibn Surayj and prevented the imminent total collapse of Umayyad rule in the region. The article is comprehensive, uses the major sources for the period and subject, and I think fulfills the criteria for A-class. Constantine ✍ 19:04, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comments~~. Hi Constantine, is this one headed to FAC eventually? - Dank (push to talk) 23:50, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Constantine. - Dank (push to talk) 18:52, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi Dank, yes, definitely. Sorry for the delay, I hadn't seen your reply. Constantine ✍ 20:39, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support on prose per my standard disclaimer. These are my edits. - Dank (push to talk) 01:31, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I will be in China for the next two weeks and will probably not be able to respond swiftly to any further comments and suggestions. Thanks in advance for your patience. Constantine ✍ 20:49, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support

What I know about this theatre of operations I've pretty well learnt from Constantine, so I can't claim any prior expertise but certainly it reads very well, like all his articles; in fact I always find his prose engaging, even if I do want to tweak the odd word or two... ;-)
Image licensing looks okay to me.
Not familiar with the sources but the publishers look reputable, and couldn't see any obvious issues with ref formatting.
No dab or duplink issues.

Well done as usual. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:27, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ian for the review and your kind words. Best, Constantine ✍ 12:28, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comments~~Support
- All toolchecks ok - no dabs, external links ok, no duplicate links, no errors with ref consolidation, Earwig tool reveals no issues with copyright violations or close paraphrase [1] (no action req'd).
- I am unfamiliar with the topic but read through the article in its entirety and couldn't see any major issues.
- Article seems to be well written and well referenced.
- Is there any information available about his family (i.e. did he marry, have children etc)? Unless I missed it I didn't see this covered in the article. Anotherclown (talk) 23:22, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anotherclown and thanks for taking the time to review this. On the family, Crone's Slaves on Horses, which is an authoritative source that covers such matters and which I usually rely upon, mentions no sons for Asad. I re-checked Tabari and the EI2 article, which don't mention anything either. Any further questions or comments? Constantine ✍ 10:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking, I've added my support now. Anotherclown (talk) 20:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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