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Featured articleGascon campaign of 1345 is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Featured topic starGascon campaign of 1345 is the main article in the Gascon campaign of 1345 series, a featured topic. It is also part of the Hundred Years' War, 1345–1347 series, a featured topic. These are identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve them, please do so.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 17, 2019.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 16, 2019WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
February 19, 2019Good topic candidatePromoted
November 17, 2018Good article nomineeListed
March 4, 2019Featured article candidatePromoted
October 29, 2021Featured topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 6, 2018.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Gascon campaign of 1345 was the first successful land campaign of the Hundred Years' War, eight years after it started?
Current status: Featured article


"Whirlwind" campaign

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Hi Aforst1. Many thanks for all of your edits on the Hundred Years' War articles. However, can I suggest that you be cautious about making substantive changes in featured articles. Case in point: whirlwind campaign. Personally I agree with you, which is why I used the word "whirlwind" when I wrote the article. This was commented upon at FAC by FunkMonk and so I changed it. Changing it back simply because you think it "sounded better" is liable to be seen as going against consensus. It would be better if you wish to make changes to FAs to flag them up on the talk page, pinging potentially interested editors and seek agreement. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What do the sources call it? That should determine it, otherwise we are just making our own original interpretations, which is iffy. FunkMonk (talk) 06:08, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Main page appearance

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This is to let people know that this article has been scheduled as today's featured article for December 17, 2019, and specifically paging the FAC nominator(s), Gog the Mild. It would be good if someone checked that the article needs no amendments. The main page blurb text can be viewed and edited at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 17, 2019.—Wehwalt (talk) 07:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How much wine?

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The article contains the following, "Before the war commenced well over 1,000 ships a year departed Gascony. Among their cargoes were over 200,000,000 imperial pints (110,000,000 litres; 240,000,000 US pints) of wine. (refs: Rodger 2004 pp=xix–xx, 79; Curry 2002 p=40)", which has been copy/pasted into a number of articles. I have edited it because it is wrong in several ways; it is OR, relies on a synthesis of the sources, and gives the wrong amount anyway. This was discussed at length a couple of years ago, but the wrong information is still here, so I have fixed it, here and elsewhere. I don’t expect everyone to be happy about this, but unless there is a reliable source that supports the previous assertion, I do expect the changes to stand. Moonraker12 (talk) 17:20, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]