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Siege of Arrah

I've listed this article for peer review because I have created this article and I would appreciate feedback.

Thanks, Exemplo347 (talk) 18:09, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Comments

• Given the length of the article, I'd suggest expanding the lead to two paragraphs
• Not sure we should be using the East India Co flag to represent a group mutinying against the company
• Publication names should be italicized
• There is a tendency for sentences to be long and complex - suggest varying to improve flow. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:32, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Comments by Redtigerxyz

Judging by WP:GA? criteria:

• Page numbers are missing in most references
• There is over-reliance on WP:PRIMARY sources. Most references are accounts by officers of the East India Company, rather than WP:NEUTRAL accounts by historicans.
• [1] Kipling's tale on the Siege needs to be added in Aftermath/Legacy
• It is very difficult to comprehend the flow of events, due to the long sentences.--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:08, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Comments

• Several military units on such as the 7th, 8th and 40th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry have no links, but overall it is well written.
• As redtigerxyz said, the sentences are in some parts needlessly long.

Iazyges (talk) 19:54, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Comments by Iazyges

"The Siege of Arrah was the eight-day-long defence" Shouldn't it be the eight-day-long-siege. "After an aborted attempt" Shouldn't it be failed? "a second relief was successful in dispersing the forces surrounding the house and the men of the besieged party were able to escape." The line before this makes it sound like the defenders tried to attack the siegers, but this line makes it look like an outside army attacked the siegers, which one is it? "7th, 8th and 40th regiments of Bengal Native Infantry" Could use a link. " The local zamindar," Could use a short explanation of what that is. "a railway engineer, began to fortify a two-storey tall and 50 feet square outbuilding belonging to him (intended to be used as a billiard room)" link? "leaving loopholes in the walls for defenders to fire their weapons through." Believe it should be turrets not loopholes, those are for arrows. "outbreak of unrest in the town." Weak sentence, should be either outbreak or unrest. "He faced scorn from his fellows" Such as? "Throughout June rumours, " June rumors never explained, if its not explained just call it rumors. "Arrah following the relief of the Siege of Cawnpore describing a massacre there and from other" Should be restructured like this "Arrah following the relief of the Siege of Cawnpore describing a massacre there. From other..." "Throughout the following seven days the besieged party faced daily musket fire, joined by fire from two artillery pieces after the 28th. Attempts were made to drive the men out of the house by the creation of a large fire of furniture and chilli peppers but at the last moment, a change in wind direction blew the smoke away from the house." This makes it sound like this happened multiple times, did it? "the expedition arrived at a large island " Which one? End of constructive criticism. Iazyges (talk) 04:24, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Moved from Article's talk page

Nice work, this qualifies for B class. However, there are some minor improvements that can be made. In general, single digit numbers should be written out, except dates. Examples: "3 regiments" should be "three regiments", "7 civilians" should be "seven civilians", but 8 June is okay. Another exception would be "6-pound cannon". "General Lloyd" the first time. After that it should be "Lloyd". Here is a nice trick to put distances in both English and metric: 25 miles (40 km). Djmaschek (talk) 02:19, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Review closed. Thanks for your comments. Exemplo347 (talk) 10:07, 30 November 2016 (UTC)