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Article milestones Date Process Result June 28, 2007 Good article nominee Listed September 26, 2007 Good article reassessment Kept Current Status: Good article

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[edit] Good article passed

Nice article; well written and comprehensive. Would like to see some citations in the table at the bottom, but otherwise have no complaints. Laïka 15:31, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor objection

I agree that overall it is a good article, but I think the first paragraph of the Background section needs some work.

I have three major objections.

1) The citation for the paragraph, "Iriarte, Luis (2005-12-17). El combate del Asomante - 12 de agosto de 1898 (Spanish). Retrieved on 2007-06-05.", refers to a page which does not appear to contain alot of evidence which justifies the summation presented in the paragraph. In fact, none of the sentences in that first paragraph make claims easily supportable from the cited evidence.

2) The description of the battle continues past the point to which the battle is relevant to this article.

3) The final sentence of this paragraph is poorly written.

"However, the stoppage of military action by Spain on (August 12, 1898) put an end to what could potentially become a bloodbath, in an otherwise smooth military campaign that produced few casualties on the American side."

a) "potentially become a bloodbath" is not encyclopedic style. It is certainly not well understood that this battle was nearly disasterous, and if so, for whom? Total casualties from the fighting do not justify this characterization of a battle which must have been based on the sizes of the forces involved and the low casualties, very weakly pursued by either side. b) Technically, the battle ended when the participants learned of the general session of hostilities.

I generally don't understand what the relevance of this section is, and think any description of the battle would be better served by a separate entry with greater detail.

Given the lack of evidence for the writer's description of the battle provided in the citation, and the subject matter I'm inclined to think that the given account is actually based on material from the Boricua Popular Army itself - perhaps the sort of battle romanticization typical of revolutionary causes (see 'Bunker Hill' or 'Trenton' for American examples). If so, such material is still relevant to the article, but its source and potential bias should be explicitly identified. Linking to a page which gives a Spainish centered account of the battle which provides little in the way of evidence for the given partisan account of the battle isn't good enough.

[edit] GA Review — kept

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Ruslik 10:20, 26 September 2007 (UTC)