Talk:Hormizd IV/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Amitchell125 (talk · contribs) 07:57, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Happy to review the article. Amitchell125 07:57, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Assessment

Lead section

• a massive Turkic incursion - the second link might be taken to lead to 'attack' or 'invasion', better to have 'the First Perso-Turkic War'.

Sorry but I don't get this part. --HistoryofIran (talk) 10:49, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

My apologies for being rather unclear, HistoryofIran. The link incursion rather unexpectedly takes you to an article that don't match the text, please amend the sentence so this does not happen. Amitchell125 (talk) 16:56, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• his mother was a Khazar princess. - the lead section statement here appears to contradict the statement in the Background section which describes his maternal line as "uncertain". Which one is correct?

Oh, right. His mother being a Khazar princess is the correct part. I've removed the "uncertain" bit. --HistoryofIran (talk) 23:51, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• King of Kings of Iran from 579 to 590 - the lead section states the year Hormizd died, but this information is missing in the main article, and needs to be added.
• marking the start of the Sasanian civil war of 589-591 - the name of the war also needs to be included in the main text.

Etymology

• link deity

Ancestry

• Background - Change the title of this section to 'Ancestry' (or something similar to this) to accurately reflect that the text is about about his Hormizd's parents/grandparents).
• link Sasanian; shah, it doesn't matter that they are already linked in the lead section.
• Shapur Shahbazi - who was he?
• Markwart and Ibn Khordadbeh - who were they?

Policies and personality

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Turkic incursions in the east

• the battle of Hyrcanian rock - possibly the 'Battle of Hyrcanian Rock' (I'm happy to be ignored here)

Overthrow and death

• He then appointed a new governor - presumably 'he' is Hormizd? Please amend accordingly.
• suppress to the rebellion - remove 'to'.
• one of his own men, Zadespras - the prose can be improved by changing it to 'Zadespras, one of his own men.'
• during summer - 'during the summer'
• cut transmissions - sounds very electrical! 'Communications'?
• the chief Iranian city - 'Iranian' is superfluous.
• continued to grow increasingly - is 'increasingly' needed here?
• However, during Hormizd's stay - amend to 'During Hormizd's stay'
• who equally hated Hormizd - if this is a quotation the source/speaker is needed.
• latters - apostrophe needed
• shortly - both examples are superfluous
• Hormizd's execution - perhaps simply 'Hormizd's death', as an execution implies he was killed by the authorities
• ordered execution of both his uncles - change to 'ordered the execution'

Religious policy and beliefs

• state that Hormizd told the clergy - 'state that' needs to be removed
• quotation - the coloured box needs to be changed
• ...introduce patterns for the relationship between... Can you explain what this means?

Family

• Change the section from lists to a paragraph of text.
• Provide citations for the text relating to his two wives.

Sources

• These need to be placed alphabetically, in order of author.
• Use https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g04zr8 as the source for ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity (Af Khodadad Rezakhani), as Google Books does not appear to have the cited page. Include the template (registration required).
• There are two books/articles not listed in the Sources section (Tafazzoli 1988 (possibilities listed), and Daryaee 2014 (can't help)). Do you know what these are?
• Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, p. 167 - this page doesn't exist in volume III, which it links to. Not sure what the solution is.

I am adding further comments as I review each section, but I don't anticipate any major problems. It's a scholarly article. Amitchell125 (talk) 18:52, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Review largely complete, short of checking a few references and reading it through once you have completed the above changes. It's looking impressive.  GA on hold Amitchell125 (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

@Amitchell125: There we go - I think I've fixed all the issues now. --HistoryofIran (talk) 14:54, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Great work - see above about a query relating to two sources. Amitchell125 (talk) 10:49, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Added the two missing sources. --HistoryofIran (talk) 14:35, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Please see additional comment about Martindale, Jones & Morris 1992, p. 167. Amitchell125 (talk) 16:14, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Ops, fixed it. --HistoryofIran (talk) 16:34, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks - now giving it a final read through. Amitchell125 (talk) 12:07, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Well done

All done GA now awarded. Thanks for producing such a fine article, Historyof Iran. Amitchell125 (talk) 13:18, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Awesome. Always appreciate your great reviews - the article has certainly been substantially improved. --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:23, 7 September 2019 (UTC)