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Assessed as start. B1 would be satisfied by a wider use of source material - too extensive use of Machievelli himself as a source could be considered OR. B2 could be satisfield by more on what happened - what was the fate of the militia, did it see action, what happened when the Republic fell. B5 needs more relevant images. E.g. the portrait of Machievelli on his biography page, a map of the territories of the Florentine Republic Monstrelet (talk) 16:33, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The citations here are a vast snarl. Page numbers are not given, and there are numerous repeated references to an entire book.
I am not sure how best to handle the citations. It would seem that the best citations of Machiavelli would be to the original Italian edition, possibly with alternate citations of an English translations, but I have no Italian, nor a day to spend running down the cites. No idea what to do about the Delbrück cites either; that's another day's work in itself, and Delbrück is originally German, another language I do not have. As if that is not enough, there are so many specific page references that a case could be made for using {{rp}}, but I have no page numbers to put there! And should I give the English page numbers, or those in the original language, which I can't read anyway‽ — Raven Onthill (talk) 03:07, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
