Talk:Reginald Pinney

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Reginald Pinney/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Jim Sweeney (talk) 01:20, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Comments

1. There are a number of disamb links that need fixing 8th Division (United Kingdom), Battle of Albert, Battle of Hazebrouck, Battle of the Lys, Henry Rawlinson, Nigel Hamilton and Public school
2. Reference style there are a mixture of dates used see refs 40 and 41 for example 40 has the date as 2010-09-19 while 41 is 21 September 2010
3. In the bibliography publishers locations could be added
4. What make ref 10 a reliable site http://web.archive.org/web/20070218172751/http://home.comcast.net/~markconrad/BRIT14.html
5. References 13, 15, 22, 31 and 38 need the authors details and publisher added
6. Ref 34 needs fixing has a extra ref
7. Ref 1 needs a page number
8. same with ref 2 and more info is it a book or web site ?
9. Ref 20 needs a page number
10. Pinney, Maj.-Gen. Sir Reginald (John) is listed in the references but not used

I've put the article on hold for seven days to allow folks to address the issues I've brought up. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, or here with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on.--Jim Sweeney (talk) 01:55, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Re/ refs 1 and 2 and 20, these are effectively purely online. They're mirroring print editions of reference works, and we could in theory quote page numbers, but I'd have to actually track down a printed copy to do so - they were written using the electronic ones only. Ref 2 is the "PINNEY, Maj-Gen..." in the references section - I could probably move this up into the notes, but it seems appropriate to keep it with the monographs, as it's a major source and the stuff cited only in Notes is mostly for details. Shimgray | talk | 18:05, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Reference dates, I've standardised it (sort of) so it's using "2010-09-20" for the access dates, and normal "1 January 1910" for the actual dates of the sources. I can standardise all down to the latter, if you'd like - I'm ambivalent, to be honest, since this way does seem to make it easy to distinguish. Shimgray | talk | 18:08, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

OK no rush just let me know when your finished --Jim Sweeney (talk) 18:46, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

With the exception of the last ones (noted above), I think that's the lot. The 1914-18 refs now have author details and sitename, but no publisher - there's not an obvious corporate body responsible for them beyond the author/editor - and I've replaced ref 10 with a print source. Let me know if there's anything else to expand on... Shimgray | talk | 20:23, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Passed Jim Sweeney (talk) 22:38, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

The General

Are we absolutely sure he was the inspiration for this poem? I always thought it was supposed to be Ivor Maxse - ironically as Maxse was a highly competent commander. I may be wrong, or of course different books may say different things.Paulturtle (talk) 14:13, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Maxse has certainly been the other commonly quoted candidate. From memory, I couldn't find anything in books about Sassoon, but there's a statement in Pinney's ODNB entry, based on private information, that he is "supposed to have been", and the introduction to The War The Infantry Knew seemed fairly confident on the subject. I didn't find much sourceable pointing to Maxse, though I haven't yet checked his biography. The only clear evidence from Sassoon's side seems to be a sketch of the general in question on a MS of the poem, but it doesn't let us make an identification better than "has a moustache". Andrew Gray (talk) 18:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Copyvio?

The retirement section may contain a large chunk of copyvio: Beginning "following his retirement...." appears to be identical to a similar section here: The Church Lads' Brigade in the great War by Jean Morris (page 235). Giano (talk) 08:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Oh dear. I wrote that and I'm fairly sure I've never heard of the book!

The listed publication date is September 2015; that section was pretty much complete in the version I wrote/updated in January 2011 or March 2012. The bit about the Fergusons was added in October 2013. Looks like it's been lifted from here without any credit. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:42, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, spotted this is now logged above. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:52, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

… and I missed Giano's post here. Yes, Ms Morris appears to have helped herself liberally to our content, without a by-your-leave or a thank-you – as noted above, on the same page as the copying from here there are also takings from Siegfried Sassoon and Ronald Knox. I didn't bother to check the whole book … Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:13, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Apologies to anyone who I have wronged here; I should have checked the publication date. One would have thought that Ms Morris could have at least have acknowledged her source. Giano (talk) 00:59, 21 February 2016 (UTC)