Wikipedia:Peer review/Anglo-Japanese Alliance/archive1
I've listed this article for peer review because I have expanded the content and added images and thus I believe it deserves promotion from Start-Class to Good-Article class. Please feel free to correct any spelling mistakes or improve the syntax if need be. All the references seem to be perfectly sound.
Thanks,
Rupa zero (talk) 15:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Overall, a strong treatment, well-written, detailed, well-organized, and well sourced. A few points:
- Though the intro mentions the diplomatic significance of the treaty for Britain (the end of splendid isolation) it does not say anything about the significance for Japan.
- It is stated that negotiations began when Russia began to move into China. What war/battle/conflict was this? Can we describe it a bit further or provide a wikilink to the appropriate conflict article?
- A great many events, including the Triple Intervention, the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese acquisition of German Pacific territories, and of Korea, are described only in passing, with extremely little detail given. I'm not sure whether or not it would be appropriate to suggest that expansion be done on these points... if there are relevant things to be said in regards to Japan's relationship with the UK, they should be said. But I'm afraid that I'm not so knowledgeable on this Alliance and its impact.
- The cultural interactions between the countries could afford to be explained further; or, a few links could be placed in a See Also section. Can we work in a mention of the Japan-British Exhibition (1910)?
I can't quite put my finger on it, but somehow the article overall seems a bit too vague, and too scattered. It's a fine start, but somehow or other I feel it needs to be both expanded upon and tightened up. Still, thanks for your excellent work thus far. Keep it up!! LordAmeth (talk) 23:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)