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British infantry brigades of the First World War

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I've listed this article for peer review because I would like to take it to FL. The list is sortable and I am working through the red links, and I believe it is FL standard. I would appreciate any and all comments especially on the small prose section. Thanks, Jim Sweeney (talk) 10:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Comments from Nick-D This looks pretty good Jim. My suggestions are:

• The 'served' column includes lots and lots of over-linking
• For FA class, the article probably also should state when the brigades were formed and disbanded and the periods they served in the different areas (I do realise that this is a huge amount of work though)
• The grammar in the first paragraph of the lead is a bit rough
• More material on how the organisation of infantry brigades changed over time would be good (including their nominal manpower). You should also note that the brigades included a headquarters and sometimes had additional battalions attached/detached
• Information on the kinds of tasks brigades were expected to undertake would be good (for instance, what trench frontage were brigades normally assigned on the Western Front?). This might be difficult to find though.
• What was the rank of officers who commanded brigades?
• Can you find a photo of an entire brigade on parade? The current generic one of infantry advancing isn't very interesting.
• The first two paragraphs of the 'Background' section seem pretty generic and don't directly relate to the topic of this article.
• You probably need to explain what the differences in the different types of brigades were (for instance, what's a 'Second line Territorial Army brigade'?)
• In a FL review you'll need to explain why The Long, Long Trail is a reliable source. Nick-D (talk) 10:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Nick gives me something to work on. Last time I had an article at FL, they wanted all the battles linked, the reason why escapes me now. I anticipated the question about the Long Long Trail and prepared this about the author Chris Baker.

• Was the chairman of the Western Front Association [1]
• Given over 1,000 talks on First World War [2]
• Web site cited in other publications [3]
• Web site cited in books [4] [5]
• Cited by Google scholar search [6]
• Web site recommended by Intute which confirms his membership of the University of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies. [7]
• Has had at least one article published in a journal [8]
• Published author — The Battle for Flanders: German Defeat on the Lys 1918 [9]
• Founder of Fourteen-Eighteen which provides research services for private clients, universities, broadcast media, museums, regimental associations and others who wish to locate, obtain and understand documents from the period of the First World War. [10]

Jim Sweeney (talk) 12:41, 7 February 2012 (UTC)