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Good articleTwelfth siege of Gibraltar has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ended in defeat for France and Spain, which lost 10,000 men while the English and Dutch defenders lost only 400?

Role of Charles' Spanish partisans.

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I'm concerned because the role played by the Spanish followers of Archduke Charles in the siege is nearly ignored. Two contemporaneous writers, Narcís Feliu de la Penya and Francesc de Castellví i Obando, recorded that the troops which did most to repel the Bourbonic assault were not English, but the Spanish companies of Francisco de Sandoval (in fact, Prince George's bodyguard company) and Jaume Burguy (of Catalan miquelets) 1 2. --Weymar Horren (talk) 11:21, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Tomobe03 (talk · contribs) 22:16, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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1. Well-written:
1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.
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2. Verifiable with no original research:
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2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).
2c. it contains no original research.
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7. Overall assessment. Pass, all criteria met

Image review:

  • Monamy-Battle-of-Malaga.jpg and Decorative scenes of the War of the Spanish Succession - Gibraltar, 1705.jpg have no United states PD licencse tags - please add as appropriate.

MOS:

  • "Philip V", "Prince George" etc should be wikilinked at the 1st instance of the name following the lead. Likewise the 1st instance should include their full names per WP:SURNAME. I am aware that they are all mentioned in the lede, but the lede, tables and similar are exempt from SURNAME and OVERLINK policies as the lede is just a summary (per WP:LEAD) - the lede should function as a useful text without the remainder of the article and vice versa.

Prose review:

  • Both "Habsburg" and "Hapsburg" spellings occur in the article. Only one should be used consistently.
  • The structure produced using the {{lang-es}} template seems awkward, especially since it contains a colon: ... known as Spanish: Muralla de San Bernardo (later Grand Battery). How about "... known as Muralla de San Bernardo in Spanish, and later as Grand Battery." or something along those lines?
  • If you're referring to the Grand Battery, it does seem to have been described as a curtain wall. You can see from this 1859 map I photographed last weekend that it's referred to as the "Grand Curtain" (apparently an interchangeable name). (Note that the linked Grand Battery article is very incomplete. I intend to rectify that this weekend.) Prioryman (talk) 22:20, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Are there any sources available on Fox's first name?
  • In The situation was precarious and was only worsened when a storm on 4–5 December damaged many of Leake's ships. the temporal clause should probably be moved to the end of the sentence.

Overall, a very nice article, with very little to mend in terms of GAR. Great work.--Tomobe03 (talk) 18:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]