Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Edward Magoon

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The article was promoted 19:42, 20 January 2007.

Charles Edward Magoon[edit]

I expanded this article from a stub and am quite happy with it. I hope it is enough for FA, but if not I will work with your comments to improve it in the future. Has passed WP:GA, is currently rated as 'A', and went through one peer review. JRP 17:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Can you please clarify this ref~~ - Thomas, Hugh Cuba, The Pursuit of Freedom. p283-287 - The article for Hugh Thomas says the title is Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom, pub date 1971, and we need a publisher and ISBN if available. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. I fixed it to use the title as given by the Library of Congress, but which is not the same the the title in the author's article. (Looking at the cover it's "CUBA" in big letters and "The Pursuit of Freedom" in smaller letters underneath. So, I understand why there is ambiguity.) JRP 22:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Fast work - the ISBN and publisher will help readers locate the book, in spite of title confusion. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Agreed, every book citation should include the publisher, year, and ISBN Mkdw ^talk 07:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is there any further reading for Magoon? Any books worth suggesting on him or his area of expertise during the early 20th century? --Jayzel 03:49, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I found some books (not used as source material), but I admit that there aren't many in print. Should I add a Further Reading section? I haven't seen that on many FAs, so I didn't add one before.
  - Magoon in Cuba: A history of the second intervention, David A Lockmiller, ISBN: 0837122104
  - Charles Edward Magoon: The Panama Years, Gustavo A. Mellander and Nelly Maldonado Mellander, ISBN: 1563281554
- Plus, he appears in just about every book (as you would expect) on 20th century Cuban history and I found a great book on Insular Law of the period. I'll try and put something together this evening... JRP 15:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meets all criteria. Good job. BTW, I asked for a further reading list because I noticed 99% of the references used are from newspapers. Most FA biographies that don't have a "further reading" section don't because all important books are used as references. Now FAs aren't required to have a "further reading" section, but I think it would be useful to the reader. Regards, --Jayzel 02:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, was going to object due to my pedantic, nitpicky nature, but fixed the few little issues I spotted (grammar, mainly) instead. Good article. Proto::► 09:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Interesting, well put together article. Mkdw ^talk 07:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Having written on related topics (see e.g. Bureau of Insular Affairs) I was fascinated by and learned quite a lot from this article. I was particularly pleased to see an inventory of the subject's manuscript papers listed as a source, as these types of documents are chronically underutilized on Wikipedia. I've copyedited a couple of sentences and added a couple of links, which I hope are helpful. Newyorkbrad 17:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.