The Review department of the History WikiProject is the project's main forum for conducting detailed reviews of particular articles within its scope.

The department hosts three forms of review internal to the project:

• Peer reviews are informal reviews carried out on articles within our scope, designed to provide ideas for improvement and expansion.
• A-Class reviews are formal reviews required for an article to receive A-Class status on quality scale.

The department is also resposible for reviews external to the project:

• It nominates articles for and promotes them to good article status
• It nominates articles for featured article status

Contents 1 A-Class review 1.1 How to nominate 1.2 Current nominations 1.2.1 John Wilkes Booth 2 Peer review 2.1 How to request 2.2 Current requests

[edit] A-Class review

The A-Class rating of the quality scale may only be assigned after a review by the project

A-Class articles are expected to largely meet the featured article criteria, and must be comprehensive, accurate, well-sourced, and decently-written.

Once an article is nominated, the discussion will last 7 days. Old nominations can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review/A-Class review/A-Class archive

[edit] How to nominate

To nominate an article within our scope for A-Class status simply replace PAGENAME in the box below with the name of the article (Place 2 or a higher number after the name for each consecutive nomination) and click Nominate. Adjust the page that appears accordingly and transclude the page into the "Current nominations" section, below, using {{Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review/A-Class review/PAGENAME}}, replacing pagename accordingly.

Finally, add A-Class=current to the project banner on the article talk page

[edit] Current nominations

[edit] John Wilkes Booth

Booth is a complex, intriguing character. Of the many journal articles, websites, and books mentioning him, most are limited to his assassination of President Lincoln, just retelling the events at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. This article, previously a FAC, uses reliable sources for a neutral, comprehensive biography of Booth's entire life and his effect upon the U.S. It complies with MoS, Layout, Lead, image use, etc., and, I hope my colleagues will agree, is an interesting read for A-Class.  JGHowes  ^talk 13:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

• John the Painter

LOUIS RUBIDOUX

[Based on Benjamin M. Read, Illustrated History of N.Mex., Santa Fe, 1912, p. 449.]

The Roubideaux brothers [AKA RUBIDOUX, THUS henceforth] Joseph and Louis were fur trappers of Canadian origin who worked the commerce of the prairies along the Santa Fe Tail during the nineteenth century. St. Joseph, Missouri was named for Joseph Rubidoux and Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside County, California was named for his younger brother Louis. Louis Rubidoux lived in Taos where he married a local woman. He had difficulty with Charles Bent, the powerful business entrepreneur and builder of the Bent’s Fort along the Arkansas River that marked the northern border between Mexico and the United States after 1819. In 1846, Bent would be appointed as the first governor of New Mexico under American rule, and assassinated within a few months. Among those also working in and around Taos in the early 1840s were John Roland, William Workman, and B.D. Wilson. Within a few years, Louis Rubidoux and the others were all to meet in Southern California. Rowland, Workman and Wilson moved to California from New Mexico in 1841-1842, and Louis Rubidoux made the journey a couple of years later in 1844. On May 1, 1848, after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo settled the Mexican American War, Rubidoux wrote from California to his friend Manuel Alvarez, a native Spaniard who lived in Santa Fe and had worked as American Consul. During the U.S.-Mexican War, Alvarez worked as a commercial agent for U.S. Interests in New Mexico. Rubidoux wanted to share with him some "war stories" about the California theatre of that war. Historian Benjamin Read, author of Illustrated History of New Mexico (1912, Santa Fe) quoted extensively from Rubidoux’s letter to Alvarez. It related that on Sept. 25, 1846, eighteen estrangeros, literally foreigners or “strangers,” i.e. non-Mexicans, had met at his house in California in order to defend themselves against an insurrection they felt in the air. [Rowland, Workman and Rubidoux, all married to northern New Mexican women, and technically were therefore all Mexican citizens through marriage.] Rubidoux lived in Jurupa, south of present-day Corona. His neighbor there was Benjamin Davis Wilson of Tennessee who had traveled with John Rowland and William Workman from Taos through Abiquiu, NM to southern California in 1841. Living in the Pasadena area, Wilson was later to make a fortune in the timber industry, and Mt. Wilson would be named for him. In his letter to Alvarez, Rubidoux related that on September 26, with John Rowland as "one of our warriors," they traveled about six leagues to the Chino Ranch where they met five more estrangeros. They were planning to go from there toward L.A. to join other Americanos. However, on the next day, they surrendered to General José María Flores who attacked with a superior force of 200 men. The original Mexican plan was to take the Americanos prisoners of war to the capital of Mexico. However, the Mexican soldiers instead kept the Americans as prisoners of war without marching them to Mexico City, either because they were fearful of American reprisals or because they accepted bribes for their release. General Stephen Watts Kearny, who in August 1846 had taken relatively peaceful possession of Santa Fe and all of New Mexico, left with Kit Carson via San Diego for California to help John C. Freemont. Kearny arrived in California from New Mexico by December, and together with his 100 dragoons met up with Commodore Stockton. The two engaged remnants of the Mexican Army from January 7 to 9, 1847. One of the skirmishes took place at what is now the intersection of Bluff road and Washington Blvd in Montebello, about fourteen miles east of Los Angeles. Kearny and Stockton freed the prisoners of war and defeated Don Andres Pico, the second chief and Mexican successor of General Flores. In New Mexico, Governor Bent was assassinated during the Taos uprising during mid January 1847, and this indicated that General Kearny may have left New Mexico prematurely. In California, Colonel John C. Freemont offered a treaty of peace. The U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for New Mexico and California together.

[edit] Peer review

The Peer review process is designed to provide ideas for improvement and expansion of articles within our scope by subjecting them to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors

Once an article is nominated, it will remain on the list untill the nominator feels he/she has gained enough feedback. Old nominations can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review/Peer review/Peer review archive

[edit] How to request

To add a nomination:

1. Add {{subst:PR}} to the top of the article's talk page and save it, creating a peer review notice to notify other editors of the review.
2. Within the notice, click where instructed to open a new peer review discussion page. If there is no such link in the notice, see this.
3. Complete the new page as instructed. Remember to note the kind of comments/contributions you want, and/or the sections of the article you think need reviewing. Add "history" to the topic parameter like so: {{Peer review page|topic=history}}.
4. Save the page with the four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your request to sign it. Your peer review will be listed automatically on this page within an hour.
5. Consult the volunteers list for assistance. An excellent way to get reviews is to review a few other requests without responses and ask for reviews in return.

[edit] Current requests

• 00:24:35, 01/01/2010: David I. Walsh
  

• 23:25:56, 31/12/2009: John Diefenbaker
  

• 08:30:03, 25/12/2009: Gamal Abdel Nasser
  

• 21:03:13, 18/12/2009: William S. Clark
  

• 23:08:40, 17/12/2009: Darius I of Persia
  

• 15:16:21, 09/12/2009: Territorial era of Minnesota