Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Battle of Verrières Ridge

Battle of Verrières Ridge

I've been working on this article since April 2007. It passed its GA Nomination several days ago (April 28, 2008). I've got several expansions planned for the article before I go for A-Class Nomination. However, I would love to have some opinions and/or ideas from some of the other members of the project. Any and all suggestions & comments are welcome and highly appreciated. Cheers! Cam (Chat) 23:56, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Ryan4314

Just a minor thought, in regards to the lead, instead of; "and elements of three SS panzer divisions", maybe "against elements of three SS panzer divisions". It just at first glance it appeared as though the canadians were allied with the SS lol! Ryan4314 (talk) 18:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

 Done. That's a good point, don't know why I didn't catch it before. Cheers! Cam (Chat) 22:43, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Kirill Lokshin

Quite nice, overall, but a few areas that could use some improvement:

• Numerical strength is more useful instead of (or in addition to) numbers of divisions in the infobox; it's not very easy to get an immediate sense of the scale from a list of units.

when I can find an exact statistic for it, I shall. Terry Copp has a new book coming out on the entire battle within the next few months, so I figure that will probably have a numerical strength figure in it. Cheers! Cam (Chat) 04:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• The "Allied Forces" and "German Defences & Forces" sections are quite short, so it may be worth merging them into a single "Dispositions" or "Forces involved" section. Done
• "Canadian Controversy" might be better as "Historiography", as it touches on matters other than the purely Canadian perspective. Done

More generally, I'm not convinced that it's worthwhile to retain Operation Atlantic and Operation Spring as separate articles, given that the bulk of them is merely repeating what we have here. You may want to consider simply merging those two into the corresponding sections in this article, and having essentially a single narrative of the entire Canadian operation against Verrieres from July 19 to July 27 as a single article.

Keep up the good work! Kirill ^(prof) 01:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The thing is that Operation Atlantic and Operation Spring had areas of attack other than Verrieres Ridge itself (Atlantic had the banks of the Orne & the suburbs of Caen, Spring had Bourguebus & Tilly-la-Campagne). I'm fully aware that I need to do some major expansion & revision of Operation Spring in order to better incorporate those aspects of the battle. Thanks for the suggestions. They are all greatly appreciated! Cheers! Cam (Chat) 04:52, 7 May 2008 (UTC)