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Battle of Pyongtaek[edit]

Nominator(s): —Ed!(talk)
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I am nominating this article for A-Class review. —Ed!(talk) 02:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments on content: Have you consulted with Korean sources? It might shed more lights on what the NKPA were doing or if any actions by the South Korean units affected this part of the war. Jim101 (talk) 04:59, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • From what I understand, there weren't any South Korean units in the area. I have this on the next battle article chronologically Battle of Chonan that the South Korean Army largely abandoned the Western part of the Peninsula in favor of delaying the North Koreans from Pusan in the East. Only scattered forces were in the region, none significant enough to assist the 34th Infantry Regiment. —Ed!(talk) 18:54, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments:
    • no dab links, alt text is present, ext links all work (no action required);
    • images seem to be appropriately tagged and licensed (no action required);
    • Citation # 29 is not linked, but all the others are;
    • the lead sentence makes it sound like it was the second engagement that occured on July 6. Is this what you mean, or do you mean the second engagement of the war, which happened to occur on July 6?
    • in the second sentence of the lead, the word "Victory" is capitalised, but this should not be so;
    • This sentence in the lead is a little awkward: "The battalion encountered North Korean forces...and after a brief fight, was umable to fight..." (the issue is repeated used of the word "fight");
    • In the Background section, the subsection "Outbreak of War" should not be capitalised as such, it should be "Outbreak of war";
    • suggest wikilinking "divisions" to Division (military unit) in first sentence of Outbreak section;
    • I believe the term "Far east" should be "Far East" as it is a proper noun; it is incorrectly capitalised in the Background section;
    • In the Battle of Osan section, "Ansong-Pyongtaek line" should have an endash where the hyphen per WP:DASH;
    • In the North Korean attack section, there is some inconsistency in designations. Sometimes you have A Company, then later Company A. Please be consistent, whichever one is used;
    • In the North Korean attack section you use the term "ammo", I suggest you change this to "ammunition" as ammo is a colloquialism that probably doesn't belong in an encyclopedia;
    • In the Aftermath section, this sentence is a little awkward: "Dean took the blame for the defeat himself, and historians consider him at least partially to blame for expecting one inexperienced battalion to hold the line against a numerically superior enemy who was well-trained" (issue is repeated use of the word "blame" in the same sentence, perhaps reword to "responsible").

—AustralianRupert (talk) 12:05, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have responded to all of your concerns. —Ed!(talk) 02:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: all my comments have been dealt with. — AustralianRupert (talk) 09:19, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support
    • Images, sourcing, and structure look good.
    • Performed a light copyedit for prose but quite satisfied overall: a lucid, succinct account of the battle.
    • One minor thing: The battalion regrouped at Pyongtaek itself, mostly a mass of disorganized soldiers without leadership.[29] demolishing a bridge north of the town before moving south. This appears to require a comma after "leadership" -- or is some text missing? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:15, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments
    • More needs to be said about the state of the US forces in the aftermath of WWII; many people do not realize exactly how poorly prepared the the US was to deal with the abrupt outbreak of the war. That factors in significantly with the article, since it was the pride and hubris of Truman and Louis that nearly lost us the war in Korea. TomStar81 (Talk) 15:07, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support That's better. Thanks for the swift response. TomStar81 (Talk) 18:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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