Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Greece/Archive 1

Battle of Greece

This article is currently rated as "start" class. Vast improvements have been made to the article. The article is informative and well-sourced in my opinion and can be considered for at least "A-class" status. Periklis* 05:42, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Great article, well written, but could do with a few more inline citations.. Kyriakos 07:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Kyriakos is right about the citations, but I think it's a slightly bigger problem. Some of the sections (i.e. Greco-Italian War) have only one citation, and the articles they link to are not well cited either. It is especially important to cite claims like "Mussolini left Albania with his reputation tarnished." I don't dispute the statement, but it should be sourced. Carom 12:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I've added numerous more citations. If articles linking to this one don't have many references, that should not affect the quality of this article. Periklis* 02:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Clarification Correct. My point was not that insufficient citations in the linked articles should prevent this article from attaining A-class. I was simply noting that the low citation count was not a result of links to well-cited articles and a desire to reduce the duplication of citations (which may or may not be a tenable position). The informal style is also a problem, as noted below. Carom 15:00, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose This isn't a bad article by any standards, but it isn't quite 'there'. My main concern is the non-formal wording of some sections (eg, "Benito Mussolini had grown jealous of Hitler’s conquests and decided to do some conquering of his own") and contested views being presented without any qualifications (especially "Greek resistance in World War II proved to be a turning point in the war. The German invasion of Greece delayed the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union by six weeks" - Barbarossa was also delayed by the slow pace of airfield construction in Poland and Hitler didn't have to come to Mussolini's aid. A quote from a Hitler isn't enough to prove such a bold claim!). --Nick Dowling 11:06, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, being reluctant to support for now. This is a very nice article, but there are some serious flaws. Most important:1) the short lead, 2) the uncyclopedic mixture of "References" and "further reading", 3) and some wording problems that Nick Dowling has already pointed out. Additionally, there are some stylistic problems (for instance, we "quote"-we donot "quote"). Nevertheless, with a slight copy-editing and the correction of the things I pointed out I think that the article can soon get 'there'. In a few minutes a detailed review of mine will be available in Talk:Battle of Greece.--Yannismarou 16:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. My concerns are addressed.--Yannismarou 10:39, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]