I've listed this article for peer review because I'm trying to get it to GA status. Right now there are 15 GA-class articles listed for WikiProject Angola and 14 of them are articles about animal species endemic throughout southern Africa. A new GA-class article on an Angolan-specific topic like this one (a pivotal battle of the civil war) would be lekker.
I have been asked to comment by Katangais. I'm have not yet had a chance to read the article properly (I look forward to doing so!) but I have some provisional comments about referencing which are flagged by the ref plugin. I have fixed one myself, but the following remain broken:
Domingos 2015
Chabal 2002
Hamann 2001
I would also suggest segregating the "References" section to leave only texts that are currently cited in the article. The others could be moved to a "Further Reading" section.—Brigade Piron (
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10:33, 12 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Hello, BP. Thanks for catching those referencing errors! I fixed the three broken refs you mentioned above, and axed the additional three that were in the ref list but didn't end up getting cited. --
Katangais(talk)17:34, 12 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Comments from AustralianRupert: G'day, thanks for your efforts with this article. Unfortunately, I can't comment on content, but on the surface it looks pretty good to me. I have a few minor suggestions to polish the article:
AustralianRupert (
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10:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)reply
"File:Battle of quifangondo.JPG": I wonder if it would be possible to have this map translated into English? You might be able to request this at
Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop
"File:War museum ZiS-3.JPG": might be better presented as a left aligned image so that it points into the article
South Africa's subsequent delivery of 3 medium guns --> "South Africa's subsequent delivery of three medium guns" per
MOS:NUMERAL
suggest left aligning "File:FNLA1973.jpg"
suggest left aliging "File:Canberra no. 458 a.jpg"
suggest right aligning "File:Raketa 122mm M-21.JPG"
"South Africa had suffered" --> had is probably unnecessary here (same in this regard to similar constructions which probably don't need the extra word)
"suffered 1 wounded", "suffered 5 dead" --> "one" and "five" per
MOS:NUMERAL (there are similar constructions that probably need the same treatment)
"At 6:00 P.M. that day" --> "At 6:00p.m. that day" per
MOS:TIME
"with the 106mm recoilless rifles" --> "with the 106 mm recoilless rifles"
"delivered to Angola–possibly" --> spaced emdash or unspaced endash per
WP:DASH (there are a few other examples of similar constructions that also should be adjusted in the same regard)
in the Bibliography is there an ISBN or OCLC number for Cascudo source
suggest sorting the References list alphabetically by the author's surname
are there ISSNs or the newspaper and journal articles cited in the References list?
Hi @
AustralianRupert:, I made all the minor fixes you suggested with the exception of the map, the translation of which I've requested. Thanks for your input! Let me know if there's anything I missed. --
Katangais(talk)21:48, 2 March 2020 (UTC)reply
G'day, nice work. Sorry, I just noticed one other that I missed earlier - citation # 16 "James 2011" is showing a harvnb error (it isn't clear which James 2011 reference it relates to in the Bibliography). Regards,
AustralianRupert (
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07:41, 3 March 2020 (UTC)reply