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Good articleBattle of Milliken's Bend 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 19, 2021Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 4, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Battle of Milliken's Bend brought acceptance of African Americans as soldiers?

New editor

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I'm a newbie, just learning my way around. Just wanted to let folks know in case I do something wrong. I feel like I'm learning quickly, though. CWology (talk) 18:30, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Added a couple of cites to the OR's - they're not exactly pretty looking. Would appreciate if someone can instruct me and/or clean up the cite formats. The "Book" template for source citations does not lend itself very well to this source. Thanks. CWology (talk) 01:51, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you may want to take a look at its parameters. For example, "publisher" seems more appropriate for the "War Dept." entry than "last" - that's meant for the author's last name. Better for this purpose, however, is {{cite encyclopedia}} - that's meant for works published in multiple volumes, just like the Official Records. (By the way, "OR" usually has a completely different meaning on Wikipedia.) I've changed the template; thanks for finding some references in the first place! Huon (talk) 03:39, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk15:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Depiction of the battle in Harper's Weekly
Depiction of the battle in Harper's Weekly

Improved to Good Article status by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 18:45, 21 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Informative and concise Civil War fact! "The soldiers at Milliken's Bend had no prior experience with firearms before joining the Union Army, and demonstrated very poor marksmanship during training. Colonel Hermann Lieb commanded the camp, which was manned by an infantry brigade of African Americans soldiers and some cavalry from Illinois." appears to be missing a citation (unless the intended citation is Miller, which is separated by a paragraph break and may need to be repeated for good measure). Accepting offline sources in good faith. GeneralPoxter (talk) 21:29, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@GeneralPoxter: - Yes, it was suppose to be Miller - a copy editor split the paragraph and evidently didn't realize they broke a reference away from its text. I've added the reference back to where it was. Hog Farm Talk 21:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
All right, good to go now! GeneralPoxter (talk) 21:35, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]