 | Edward W. Gantt is currently a World history good article nominee. Nominated by Hog Farm Talk at 04:45, 7 November 2024 (UTC) An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria and will decide whether or not to list it as a good article. Comments are welcome from any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article. This review will be closed by the first reviewer. To add comments to this review, click discuss review and edit the page.
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Nominator: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 04:45, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 08:52, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
I will review, comments to follow in due course. Zawed (talk) 08:52, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
What an interest character; the change from being a slave owner prewar to being somewhat of an advocate for freed slaves afterwards is quite jarring!
Lead
- Reads OK
Biography
- As a broader suggestion, a couple of subheadings would be nice; perhaps 'Military career' or 'Civil War' could be one?
- Gantt had ambitions to become a prominent figure,...: do the sources specify prominent in what context? Political, legal or just in society in general?
- gave him an adequate opportunity for that.: suggest "gave him appropriate opportunities." (the "for that" doesn't flow well to me).
- Gantt never took office in the United States House of Representatives, and was also elected...: it seems that this recites contrasting facts so rather than "and was also elected", a "but was elected" seems more appropriate.
- Gantt was badly wounded during an artillery duel.[10][2] : cites out of order if that is a thing for you
- Do the sources specify why Polk's recommendation for Gantt's promotion to brigadier general was declined?
- In this role, he oversaw the relation...: should that be relations (plural)?
- sometimes carried seven weapons: seven or several (seven seems very precise!)
- Is there anything to suggest his advocacy for freed slaves was possibly driven by his desire to be seen as prominent/famous (perhaps infamous is more appropriate given Arkansas is a southern state) or was it genuine charitable work?
Other stuff
- No spot checks done, happy to AGF on the sourcing given nominator's history
- Sources themselves look reliable, being mostly university presses
- Earwig tool identifies the Finley article on the Encyclopedia of Arkansas as having 24% similarity. Reviewing this, it looks to be based mostly on common terms e.g. 1850 Nashville Convention and titles of shared sources.
- Image tag OK
- No dupe links
That's it for me. Zawed (talk) 06:58, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
- Apologies for taking several days to get to this. I hope to be able to address these tomorrow. Hog Farm Talk 00:54, 17 November 2024 (UTC)