Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Henry James Nicholas

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Henry James Nicholas

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Nominator(s): Zawed (talk)

Continuing with my efforts to bring all of New Zealand's Victoria Cross recipients up to A-Class standard, I now nominate Henry Nicholas for A-Class. After receiving the VC, he went on to be awarded the Military Medal. Unfortunately, he was killed in action just a few weeks before the end of the war. I have done some expansion work in recent months and the article went through a GA review two months ago. I look forward to the feedback of reviewers and hopefully seeing this article be promoted to A-Class. Zawed (talk) 08:45, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments: G'day, Zawed. Thanks for your efforts with this. I have a few suggestions: AustralianRupert (talk) 11:16, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

engagement with the enemy: probably best to avoid the word "enemy" here

Hmmm, this wording is in some other FA/A VC articles although often with quote marks; shall I add them here? Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

G'day, yes that would work, IMO. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:34, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

in the infobox, shouldn't the years of service include his time in the Territorials?

Done. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

is anything known of his parents? Did he have any siblings?

Have added some info, although I haven't found anything yet to indicate what his father did. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

in the Early life section, the wording is a little repetitious: "schooling" appears in two sentences in a row

Done. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

he joined the Territorial Force and served in the Field Engineers: probably best to clarify that the Territorial Force was part-time

Done. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

in the second paragraph of the First World War section, I suggest clarifying that the Chateau was in the Ypres salient, to provide the reader with a little more context

Done. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Its Canterbury and Otago battalions attacked midday but was slowed by heavy machine-gun fire --> "attacked at midday but were"?

Done. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

in the First World War section, I suggest that "The London Gazette" should be in italics

Done. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

did the New Zealanders have a role during the Spring Offensive? If so, it might pay to mention briefly what his unit did during the early part of 1918

Done; I also added a little to cover more of the 1917 period. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"won": sometimes this word draws criticism when it comes to gallantry awards. It might be best to replace it with "earned" or sometime similar

Done. @AustralianRupert: Thanks for your comments, I have dealt with them as noted above. There is one query as well. Zawed (talk) 08:27, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

File:Henry_James_Nicholas.jpg: per the tag, you need to specify steps taken to try to ascertain authorship. Which of the rationales from that tag is believed to apply? What is the status of the work in the US?

I have replaced the image with one from Commons. Zawed (talk) 10:31, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Henry_James_Nicholas_49.jpg: what is the copyright status of the plaque? Nikkimaria (talk) 16:22, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to deal with this so have opted to remove the image. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 10:31, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support on prose per my standard disclaimer. Well done. As always, feel free to revert my copyediting. These are my edits. - Dank (push to talk) 00:19, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support This article is in good shape. I have only a minor comment:

"He received the Victoria Cross for his actions during an attack on the Polderhoek Spur in early December 1917" - could the date be given as 3 December? Nick-D (talk) 04:01, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support Nick, I have revised the lead as requested. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 05:27, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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