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Blitzkrieg

Informative lead. Fairly long article. Quite a few nice pictures. Terms nicely ilinked. References. External links. Nominating. Especially considering rather poor shape of other articles on military tactics/doctrines (or complete lack of thereof). Your thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 00:27, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  • Object. This looks quite good, but I have a few points: 1) This article needs a good copyedit. In a first quick lookthrough I already spotted three or four spelling and typing errors. There are probably many more. Putting the text through a spell checker should reveal most of these errors. 2) The lead section says: "[blitzkrieg] has became a synonym for any quick and desicive military operation", but the article stops in 1945. Were the blitzkrieg tactics used and/or improved after 1945? If so, tell us about it, if not, adjust the lead. 3) The "Notable persons" seems quite unnecessary and too short to be a section on its own. Most of the persons in here are already mentioned; those who are not should perhaps be. 4) A few of the images have no copyright information or no source mentioned. Jeronimo 07:55, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Object. There are quite a few red links (including Category:Military doctrines!!!), and the article needs copyediting. Scare quotes around "volunteers" in the Spain section is POV. RickK 07:56, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
    • This may not be as flagrant as it looks, because Spanish Civil War uses "volunteers" twice and though technically volunteers, they were obviously professionals who were equipped by their government. Nonetheless, a minor point--I changed it. 119 08:49, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. Regarding the specific objections above, please check the article again. 119 22:46, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Well, the article isn't in much better shape then when I nominated it. You added an new empty (!) section on 'Soviet Union, 1942-45' - until it is filled or deleted (I'd prefer the first option) I myself have to object. Ummm...now is this the first - objection by the nominator? Also, you had deleted some ilinks and reverted my attempt to add them back to the article. As basically you are removing links to important people (like Erwin Rommel), I am afraid your actions DO NOT improve the article. I agree that the notable people section was not necessary, but simply deleting it togehter with useful links it contained is not the way to fix the problem. Care to explain why my addition of those links to the 'Guderian and German General Staff 'it makes no sense there'? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 20:28, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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