Talk:Drusus Caesar/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 00:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Will start soon. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 00:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Criteria

GA Criteria
GA Criteria: 1 1.a Y 1.b Y 2 2.a Y 2.b Y 2.c Y 2.d Y (3.8%, due to coincidental mirroring of phrases) 3 3.a Y 3.b Y 4 4.a Y 5 5.a Y 6 6.a Y 6.b Y

• No DAB links Y (There is one DAB link but it is an other uses template).
• No Dead links Y
• Images appropriately licensed Y

Prose Suggestions

• Sejanus had become powerful in Rome and is believed by ancient writers such as Suetonius and Tacitus to have been responsible for the downfall of Drusus the younger. suggest Sejanus, the prefect of the Praetorian Guard, had become powerful in Rome and is believed by ancient writers such as Suetonius and Tacitus to have been responsible for the downfall of Drusus the younger.

done

• Germanicus was for some time considered the new heir by Augustus, but Augustus later decided in favor of his stepson Tiberius. Was Germanicus considered the heir, but Augustus later declared it for Tiberius, or did Augustus consider Germanicus a potential heir, but later decided to choose Tiberius instead?

Germanicus was considered a potential heir. It's now explained in the article.

• Which had made him popular as he avenged the Roman defeat at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Might want to put an adjective on Battle of Teutoburg Forest, suggest the humiliating Roman defeat at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

done

• At the direction of Tiberius, Germanicus was dispatched to Asia to reorganize the provinces and assert imperial authority there. Was there a particular reason that imperial authority wasn't being asserted, or was it simply lack of attention?

the provinces were in a disarray - now in article

• whereas modern authors like Barbara Levick are more critical suggesting it may have been illness suggest whereas modern authors, such as Barbara Levick, suggest that it was may have been due to illness.

done

• @SpartaN: That is all my comments. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 15:06, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

"@Iazyges: I think that's it. Thanks! SpartaN (talk) 15:24, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

P.S.

@Iazyges and SpartaN: Bingham 1999 and Adams 2007 are not given bibliographical details for, please fix that. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:05, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

@Finnusertop: - done. Thanks for spotting that. Those sections were heavily edited and it slipped through I guess. SpartaN (talk) 16:11, 22 January 2018 (UTC)