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Second Persian invasion of Greece[edit]

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Second Persian invasion of Greece
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Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Artemisium
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Mycale

I am nominating this as a good topic. The invasion was a very significant event in world history, and the five major battles (including some quite famous ones) are all covered here; minor engagements are covered in the lead article. Five of the GA reviews are recent, four of them in the last two months, so I believe everything to be up-to-speed. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 10:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support I have decided that this covers all of the topics, the only thing else I could think of is some of the people involved. Zginder 2009-03-10T19:09Z (UTC)
  • Support Seems to be comprehensive, well done—Chris! ct 01:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Excellent work. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 23:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, but I recommend covering the biographies of important participants with GA as part of the topic. In my opinion, these are Themistocles, Eurybiades, Pausanias, Leonidas, Mardonius and Xerxes. Most of them have a fairly short biographies, limited to the conflict, so it should be little work bringing these articles to GA. Wandalstouring (talk) 11:46, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think that this is not a bad idea, and Zginder also suggests it. I intended this topic as a purely military collection of articles, and think it qualifies as a Good Topic on that basis alone. However, that doesn't mean that other articles can't be added. I'd certainly give Themistocles, Leonidas, Xerxes and Mardonius a go; I'm not really sure there's enough material to write GA biographies of Eurybiades or Pausanias.MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 13:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - and I guess Battle of Thermopylae in popular culture is a possible addition, but is a subarticle of the Battle of Thermopylae, so can potentially form part of a future subtopic surrounding just that one battle, and hence isn't needed now - rst20xx (talk) 19:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support -- Excellent topic.--Best, ₮RUCӨ 16:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Close with consensus to promote - rst20xx (talk) 12:38, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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