Talk:Second Battle of Independence/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 09:59, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will review this one shortly. Zawed (talk) 09:59, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

Should the wiki link on Union Army be moved to earlier, on "Union troops"?
- done

Background

Instead, Smith decided to attack, despite having limited resources for one: "for one" reads strangely, suggest deleting.
- Removed

Prelude

winning the Battle of Glasgow and capturing Sedalia.?
- Fixed
...Major General Andrew Jackson Smith, who arrived in St. Louis. Something is off here, maybe a missing word or two?
- A clause was in the wrong spot
The sentence starting "Sanborn served as acting commander..." should be moved to after the following sentence, otherwise there is no context for who Sanborn is.
- Done

Battle

Price made a feiting attack: typo here I think
- Yep, corrected
Contact between the two sides was made at 05:00 on the 22nd,...: is the "on the 22nd" really necessary, it seems well established which day it is.
- Removed
Suggest referring to Hughey's Arkansas Battery as the 8th Arkansas Field Battery through the article. I was thinking that you hadn't mentioned a commander named Hughey until I followed the link and realised it was an alternate name for the unit.
- The sources actually all refer to it as Hughey's Arkansas Battery or Hughey's Battery, not the 8th Arkansas Field Battery. Confederate artillery batteries were almost always referred to be the name of their commander, and this is not an exception. The use of the official, but not widely-used, numerical designation is more of a result of WP naming conventions than actual use. I think it's preferable to use the non-WP name here, since it's what the sources use and what the battery would have been most commonly known as during the battle.
...Cabell was joined by Clark's and Freeman's brigades.: suggest "Cabell was joined by the brigades of Clark and Freeman. (gets rid of the possessives)
- Done
the right wing of Sanborn's brigade instead moved: suggest rewording as proposed to avoid repeated use of "coordination"
- Done
After the Union Arkansas regiment entered the town,...
- Done
The detachment's commander, Hughey's two cannons (which had been captured from Union forces at the Battle of Pleasant Hill), Cabell's sword,[41] and 300 Confederates were all captured.: Is it really a big deal that Cabell's sword was captured?
- I've added that Cabell was almost captured and lost his sword while trying to escape. I can cut this if you don't think its significant in that context, either.
which allowed the Confederates to reform about 1 mile
- Fixed. I'm a bad copy editor.
Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Bazel Lazear, the unit skirmished with the Confederate: suggest rewording as proposed to avoid close usage of "1st Missouri State Militia Cavalry"
- Done
The Union attack drove the Confederates back 2 miles
- Done
and by soon after that time, all of Clark's units
- Done

Other stuff

Image tags check out
- I've added an image during the review - one that's PD by courtesy of being a map from a really old book.
One dupelink: Westport
- Removed the overlink, as well as an overlink of Colonel

That's it for me. Zawed (talk) 10:48, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

- @Zawed: - Thanks for the review! Everything has been replied to, although the Hughey's Battery point has not been done per explanation above. Hog Farm _Talk 03:35, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your changes look good. I am passing this as a GA as I believe it meets the necessary criteria. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 10:43, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]