Wikipedia:Peer review/Operation Battleaxe/archive1

Á===Operation Battleaxe=== The article was pitiful at first, so I revamped it. What do you think? -- Snipre 21:16, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Needs a battlebox. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/^talk]] 07:11, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

This article is taken almost verbatum from This article by Phil Edwards on The BBC's WW2 People's war site. Click and compare...except for some minor wording changes, the addition of the battlebox and wiki-links, the two are practically clones. I wonder why the "author" didn't just go ahead and provide the same treatments for Operations Brevity and Crusader. But I'm glad (s)he did not, for it gave me the opportunity to expand both stubs into articles. In doing so, I also used Mr. Edwards' work as a source but not as my only source. Then I synthesised the information from my sources and presented it in my own narratives. I'm tempted to give similar attention to this article as well. But unlike the other two, which were hardly more than single sentence stubs, this would entail a complete rewrite. And since Battleaxe was, basically a less successful and costlier replay of Brevity, there is hadly any need. So my main motive in a rewrite would be so it did not reflect so poorly on the Wikipedia. I'm not claiming my own articles are feature-worthy, but they are certainly better than this, no offense to Mr Edwards. C'mon, Wikipedians! You can do better. Needs improvement, final grade a generous C-.

--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 00:15, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The 4th Armoured Brigade which included the 4th and 7th Royal Tank Regiment are practically ignored.In addition to their being more or less destroyed the militarily historical importance lies in the realignment of thinking required by tank users and designers.Both regiments were equipped with Matilda II tanks which had earned the nickname'Queen of the desert' fighting the Italians from late 1940.The thick armour and solid shot 2 pounder guns were unbeatable against Italian tanks.Their range,gun velocity and armour was much poorer than the Panzer MkIII and MarkIV .Battleaxe was also where the British tanks met the 88mm German gun used against armour and which became unbeatable for a very long period.Both 4th Brigade battalions were practically wiped out(see 7th battalion War Diary for 15/17th June 1941.