Talk:The Collapse of Price's Raid

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Did you know... that a reviewer of The Collapse of Price's Raid stated that the lack of maps in the book would force many reviewers to use an atlas to follow the narrative?

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Did you know nomination

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:53, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that one reviewer of The Collapse of Price's Raid stated that the lack of maps in the book would force many reviewers to use an atlas to follow the narrative? The Owens 2016 source in the text
- ALT1:~~... that one reviewer of The Collapse of Price's Raid commented that the book did not include enough discussion about Native Americans in the American Civil War?~~ Ref 5 in the text (Anderson 2017)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Francis Neale
Comment: My first attempt at writing an article about a book, so while I think this is how these book articles are formatted, no guarantees.

Created by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 01:53, 31 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Hog Farm, review follows: article created 31 October 2020; article exceeds minimum length; I'm not overly familiar with book articles myself but this one seems to be in the right format etc; article is well referenced and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I don't have access to Sesser and Owens but happy to AGF there is no overly close paraphrasing from them - I have checked against Anderson with no issues; hooks are interesting to me (I find the first one the most interesting, how unusual to have a military history book without a map!); I can verify both hooks from Anderson; a QPQ has been carried out; - Dumelow (talk) 20:23, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this, but unlike your other "review" hook (Template:Did you know nominations/Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri) this one seems less hooky. Another way to write book hooks is to talk about book content. If you would add an inline cite and maybe a drop more information to this fact, you could write:
ALT2: ... that the 2016 book The Collapse of Price's Raid contends that African Americans and Native Americans played a significant role in decision-making during an 1864 American Civil War campaign in Missouri? Yoninah (talk) 22:31, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah - I personally find ALT0 more interesting, but I'd be fine with ALT2 (ALT0 is probably more interesting to military history buffs, as it's rather unusual as Dumelow notes, but I guess that's not really a broad audience). Hog Farm _Bacon 20:30, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. Restoring tick for ALT0. Yoninah (talk) 20:41, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]