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The airport is not listed as João Paulo II anywhere.
The airport's own website calls itself simply Ponta Delgada, and has no mention of João Paulo.
Template:Regions of Portugal: statistical (NUTS3) subregions and intercommunal entities are confused; they are not the same in all regions, and should be sublisted separately in each region: intermunicipal entities are sometimes larger and split by subregions (e.g. the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon has two subregions), some intercommunal entities are containing only parts of subregions. All subregions should be listed explicitly and not assume they are only intermunicipal entities (which accessorily are not statistic subdivisions but real administrative entities, so they should be listed below, probably using a smaller font: we can safely eliminate the subgrouping by type of intermunicipal entity from this box).
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The source I've cited indicates that "Nshila wa Lufu" literally means "Death Road", a phrase that subsequent to this battle, has become associated with Quifangondo. Please discuss here if you feel otherwise. Socrates2008 (Talk) 21:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)reply
Casualty numbers incomplete
The MPLA numbers are missing, as are references for the numbers currently cited. Socrates2008 (Talk) 09:51, 12 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Angolan decolonisation conflict 1974/75
Creating a separate 74-75 phase in the Angolan conflict is an artificial academic construct by one author, against the norm followed by other historians who correctly distitingush between two phases: the
Angolan War of Independence and the
Angolan civil war. It is certainly not for the lede, as it only confuses readers for two reasons:
1. the term
"decolonisation" is historically associated with the struggles for independence, so in this case, the Angolan War of Independence;
2. the text clearly says it is "the first battle in the Angolan Civil War", also identified as such in the infobox as "Part of The Angolan Civil War".
It is one or the other, it can't be both. Unfortunately the editor who made this change keeps repeating it elsewhere.
Regards,
Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (
talk) 12:13, 21 January 2017 (UTC)reply
I will begin the review tomorrow.--
Catlemur (
talk) 21:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)reply
If the information is already mentioned and referenced in the main body of the article, you don't have to duplicate the refs in the infobox. E.g. Santos e Castro being a commander in the battle.
Fixed!
Same goes for the lede.
Fixed!
"a hill which overlooked the Luanda highway and only five kilometres from Quifangondo." - Clarify this sentence.
Added “located” before “only five kilometers from Quifangondo”.
Use the convert template to convert km distances into miles.
This might seem nitpicky but article is written using South African and Commonwealth spellings, orthography, and units, as this is the dialect used in all but two of the primary sources (Tucker and Stockwell). Is the conversion to miles really necessary?
The conversion is for the convenience of readers from around the globe. I've been requested to do the same when I nominated an article of mine for GAN in the past.--
Catlemur (
talk) 08:47, 5 May 2020 (UTC)reply
You mention that a number of Zairean troops were injured in the battle, but the same isn't done in the infobox.
Fixed!
Add a single sentence at the end of the article, stating that the war went on because FALA continued to resist until 2002.--
Catlemur (
talk) 12:02, 2 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Fixed!
Guimaraes, Fernando Andresen - Is Andressen a first name?
I think Fernando is, but since the author’s name is cited as such in the source material I included it verbatim. Granted, I don’t know anything about Lusophone naming conventions.
James III, W. Martin (2011) and James, W. Martin (2011) - Is this the same person? If so correct it.
Yes, it is the same person but a formatting error occurs every time I add the “III” to the second source in my citations, probably because the format can’t differentiate between the two sources since they were both written by the same author in the same year.
Comment If you have two different sources by the same author in the same year, the convention is to append a letter after the year, for example changing the year field to '2011a' or '2011b' so that the sfns work.
Kges1901 (
talk) 00:52, 7 May 2020 (UTC)reply
The second James ref was not needed after all.--
Catlemur (
talk) 21:18, 8 May 2020 (UTC)reply