Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Benjamin Franklin Tilley

Benjamin Franklin Tilley

Another rewrite in the vein of Edwin Taylor Pollock (recently promoted to FA!) and I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve this for GA and, possibly, FA. Tilley at least died while in the Navy so I don't expect any "after the Navy" comments. ;) Specifically, I have a very large section on what he did in Samoa because that is the major thing his career is remembered for. (And because it's very well documented. Serving on such and such ship which didn't do much in particular is difficult to track down in the history books.) I look forward to your comments.JRP 18:04, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Kirill Lokshin

This is an excellent article; it should be ready for FAC shortly. A few minor formatting points to fix, though:

• The templates at the bottom would look better after the references section rather than before it, I think; they interrupt the flow too much, otherwise.
• Are author names available for the various newspaper articles being cited?
• The mix of citation formats caused by the templates is somewhat messy; I would suggest moving to a common format by hand-formatting the citations. (But this may be a point of personal preference, so you shouldn't feel obligated to do this if you prefer the template-generated ones.)

Other than that, this looks very good; keep up the great work! Kirill Lokshin 00:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

• • Thanks for the great comments. I'll move the templates. As for the author names, I include them when I have them... but mostly I don't have any bylines. I'm sorry. (I have PDF scans of the articles so if there were there, I would see them. Ah well.) For the different citation styles, I agree with you that the mixture of newspaper/journal/book citations templates looks poor. BUT, I'm hoping that someday the template maintainers will fix that rather than hard-coding the citations now. Again, thanks for your comments. JRP 00:29, 12 March 2007 (UTC)