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Good articleAmbush of Geary 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.
Good topic starAmbush of Geary is part of the New York and New Jersey campaign series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
April 6, 2010Good article nomineeListed
April 28, 2010Good topic candidateNot promoted
December 17, 2010Good topic candidatePromoted
May 30, 2020Good topic removal candidateKept
Current status: Good article

Merge?

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I've suggested Francis Geary (British Army officer) be merged in here - the man doesn't seem to have any real historical significance outside of this event, and it would seem better to give a quick one-paragraph biography of him in context here rather than sat out on its own. Shimgray | talk | 19:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If that's all that is really known about him, seems like a reasonable step. Magic♪piano 20:21, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My thoughts exactly :-) - without this incident, I can't really see any reason we'd attach much significance to Geary without his having had a later career - he was 24, the son of a minor aristocrat, and had spent all his adult life doing very little at Oxford and then at the Army...
I'll give it a week and then merge if there's been no other feedback. Shimgray | talk | 00:26, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I did the merge. Feel free to add back some of the few details I didn't copy. Magic♪piano 18:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notable?

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Is this action honestly notable? This sort of thing happens in every war all the time and I see nothing here exceptional enough to deserve an article as opposed to an ambush somewhere else.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 05:29, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm not the originator of the article, I see it as more like a piece of local history than anything grandiose, given the minor controversy over what happened to the body. Wikipedia is full of pieces of local color (not just milhist, people write articles about public transit stops and such), and this one is (to me anyway) surprisingly well-documented for an incident of its size. (On the other hand, there seems to be some sort of mystique about the revolution that Americans feel they have to document every little event that happened. Me, I'm just working through articles in a campaignbox, trying to improve them. I probably would not have created the article, but I'm also not a deletionist.) Magic♪piano 18:42, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm certainly not going to put up for AfD as I was surprised on the amount of information available.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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

Reviewer: Mm40 (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm Mm40 (talk · contribs) and I'll be reviewing this nomination against the good article criteria. I'll be watching this page, and I'll be very active over the next few days, so you should just leave any comments or questions here. Thanks, Mm40 (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My first impression is that the article is very short, as most of it is background. However, after looking for more sources (using JSTOR and EBSCOhost and such) and looking at the talk page, I realize the article is actually longer than one would think it could be. Thus, length isn't a problem.

That's all I can find for this otherwise very nice article. I'll happily pass this after these issues are resolved. Cheers, Mm40 (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your useful feedback; I'll get to this in the next few days. (Some things I will clarify in the text: bas-relief is not a typo, and a pension declaration is a statement made by someone seeking a military pension; it often contains a summary of their military activity, and may include affidavits of other people. They form a portion of the historical archives for wars of the period.) Magic♪piano 16:57, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think I've taken care of these. Let me know if there's anything more to do. Magic♪piano 01:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK then, I'll pass the article now. Thanks for your contributions, and please consider reviewing a nomination or two at WP:GAN. Thanks, Mm40 (talk) 12:22, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I do occasionally do reviews (although not nearly as many as I've put in). Magic♪piano 13:14, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]