Talk:Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cerebellum (talk · contribs) 21:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I'll be reviewing this article, could take up to a week. --Cerebellum (talk) 21:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thank you `Nick-D (talk) 09:47, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria

Prose: Prose is excellent! Some minor tweaks suggested below, take them or leave them, the article meets the GA standard as is.
References: Article is well referenced to high-quality sources. Spot checks conducted for sources I could access, no issues identified. My only question is about the sentence in the lead on volunteer motivation.
Coverage: Yes, does a good job of maintaining global perspective.
Neutral: Yes.
Stable: Yes.
Illustrated: No, but I think it is ok since no free images are available.

Comments

Lead: The most common motivation was opposition to governments led by black people Do any of the sources say this in as many words? From my cursory look at the sources I think the sentence at the beginning of “Volunteers’ motivations” is more accurate, Most foreign volunteers for the Rhodesian Security Forces did so as a result of personal political and ideological beliefs or a desire for adventure, i.e. it was a mix of motivations with racism a component but not necessarily the predominant one.
- Yes, Luise White states that explicitly - please see the 'motivations' section Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Prose: ex-flechas - Should flechas be capitalized? Looks like it is in our article Flechas.
- Yep, done Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Prose: In this work I suggest In her 2021 work, I think it is clearer.
- I think that this is clear in this context? Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Prose: 100 Americans had served I suggest 100 Americans served, don't think "had" adds anything.
- Done Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Links: American volunteers in the Rhodesian Bush War is not linked until the end of the article, what do you think about linking it earlier on?
- Good idea - moved up Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Coverage: Do you think it would make sense to mention the crippled Eagles and Robin Moore's "unofficial US embassy" in this article? Or would it slant the article unduly to an American perspective?
- I think it would, as Britons greatly outnumbered the Americans. I've covered this in the article on the US volunteers. Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Prose: but was unable to enforce this I suggest but was unable to enforce the ban.
- Done Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Images: I couldn't find any free images of foriegn volunteers. I'm not well-versed in fair use rules but maybe you could use this non-free recruiting poster? link.
- That's a good idea. I'll try to find a version with the source details needed Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick-D: Thank you for nominating this article! It was a pleasure to read, you do a good job of demythologizing the topic. I do have a few comments above but they are all minor points, the article meets the criteria as is so I'm going to go ahead and pass as GA. --Cerebellum (talk) 15:39, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Cerebellum: Thank you very much. I've found this an interesting topic to work on. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]