Talk:25th Battalion (New Zealand)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: AustralianRupert (talk · contribs)

I will review this article this weekend. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk 04:51, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

That's great!!--Muzammil (talk) 04:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments/suggestions: looks good, I have the following suggestions: AustralianRupert (talk) 05:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

• in the lead: "under the command of Lieutenant Colonel A. S. Wilder". This is probably unnecessary detail for the lead;

• Deleted from the lead.

• name presentation: if possible, full names should be used (although I understand that this may not be possible given the sources, in which case please just adjust any that you can, if any)

• Done where possible.

• "battalion embarked for active service abroad on 27 August 1940...": do we know what ship they sailed on?

• Have added.

• inconsistent spelling and caps: "service in the Pacific Theater of Operations" v. "redeployed in the Pacific theatre"

• Have fixed.

• missing word: "rest of 6th Brigade" --> "rest of the 6th Brigade"

• Have fixed.

• missing word: " 1943, 25th Battalion participated..." --> "... 1943, the 25th Battalion participated..."

• Have fixed.

• "a nighttime..." --> "a night-time..."

• Have fixed

• "Takrouna-Enfidaville road" --> the hyphen should be an unspaced endash;

• Have fixed.

• missing word: "attached to 5th Brigade" --> "attached to the 5th Brigade;

• Have fixed.

• spelling: "reconnoiter" --> "reconnoitre"

• Have fixed.

• " 26 Panzer Division" --> missing ordinal suffix "th" (for consistency)

• Have fixed.

• "During the war, the 25th Battalion lost 531 officers..." Do we know how many served in the battalion altogether?

• No, not throughout the war. I have slightly revised this sentence for clarity.

• "Distinguished Service Order (DSO)"...the abbreviation should be introduced earlier in the article when the term is first used;

• Have fixed.

• "infantry companies" --> "rifle companies"?

• Have fixed.

• missing words: " of 21st Battalion in preparation for an assault across the Fiumicino River by 24th and 26th Battalions..." --> " of the 21st Battalion in preparation for an assault across the Fiumicino River by the 24th and 26th Battalions..."

• Have fixed.

• the endashes in the COs list are not quite correct in how they are spaced. Where there is a space in the date, there should be a space between the dash. For instance, this is not correct "December 1943–February 1944", it should be "December 1943 – February 1944"

• Have fixed.

• in the References, Plowman should be before Pugsley alphabetically

• Have fixed.

• in the References, "Auckland: Allen & Unwin" --> "Auckland, New Zealand: Allen & Unwin" for consistency with the other entries

• Have fixed.

• "File:25th Battalion Infantry, Italy, April 1945.jpg": needs a US licence in addition to the NZ licence. "PD-US-1996" should be sufficient
• "File:25th Battalion infantry moving towards Florence, 1944.jpg": same as above
• "File:25th Battalion infantry during the attack on the Senio River, 1945.jpg": same as above

• Have add US licence tags to all three images.

AustralianRupert, Thanks for the review, I believe I have addressed all your points. Cheers. Zawed (talk) 02:22, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Looks good, passing now. Thanks for your efforts. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 05:55, 14 February 2016 (UTC)