Talk:Allied prisoners of war of Japan/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Piotrus (talk · contribs) 01:48, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 00:13, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66. I hope you are doing well. Can you please finish this review? Fade258 (talk) 15:01, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

@Fade258 The article was passed few weeks ago, although without any comment here, yes. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:52, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok. Fade258 (talk) 02:49, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:13, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

• Earwig reports 4.8%--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 10:39, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
• File:Sakuta survivors P03651.011.JPG needs a US-PD tag
• File:Siffleet, Pattiwahl, Reharin.jpg So does this one
• a relevant template has been added--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• towards the Western culture Delete the "the"
  • Done. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• convention[7]: 24 ), and [16]: 222 ) cite after punctuation
  • Done. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• [3][8]: 512 : 31–32 [7]: 79  I think something's out of order
  • Done, and in other places I've noticed.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• Chinese civilians but also prisoners of war were murdered change "but also" to "and"
• Historians have also attributed war crimes to the lack of supervision and disorganization within the military which without stronger control over units and effective court martial procedures allowed for war crimes to go unpunished and therefore continue. Awkward, I suggest splitting it
  • C/e-ed to make it shorter. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• Link premier, war minister foreign minister, secret police
• control of the area but rescued comma after area
• Down to After the war, more later--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:09, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus: You don't seem to have done anything to fix the issues that I raised so long ago. Do you want to proceed or should I just fail it?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:53, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66 Like I said in the other review, I missed the fact that you started it while I was waiting for you to finish the other one (please ping me in the future, TIA). I'll try to catch up and address the issues here over the next few days, feel free to continue the review at your leisure, I will address all comments you make. What I see above looks like it won't take much. Thanks again. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:44, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66 Caught up. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus:

• Capitalize Yamashita's rank
• Link all ranks on first use
  • Done. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:00, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
• (and the only alive at that time) irrelevant
  • Done. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:00, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
• Which specific John Grisham novels?
  • Done. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:00, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
• Only spot checks remaining--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:27, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Noted. Will work on this in few days, around XMAS; right now I am in the middle of end-semester grading, so all large wiki projects are on hold. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:04, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

That's fine, that'll give me time for the spotchecks as well.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:29, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

• All .pdfs and journal articles need page numbers
• This is confusing: [8]: 512 : 31–32  If these are all page numbers, none of them relate to the interpretation of Bushido changing.
• Only the cite to page 301 for cite #8 is valid, which tells me that the problem is not any difference in edition
• Spot checked [16]: 57, 222; [16]: 180–185, 192–193; [16]: 169, 200; [26]: 4; [23]: 133
• Cannot spot check cite 3 because it lacks page numbers--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:39, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks. I have figured out part of the problem with [8]. In one of my first edits, , I must have copied it from , AGFing that it supports the claim made (which in fact it doesn't...). Compunding that mistake, few edits later, in , some copypaste error spread this ref to other places. I've fixed one. The other one came from me copying content from , where Toland's book [8] is referenced with pages 23-34. Of course, double sigh, that also failed verification once I checked it, although I was able to verify it with that source on page 5. But, seriously, the amount of erros in our referencing is terrible, I really need to stop AGFing anything I find on our pages. Aaaargh. I will fix other issues you mention in the near future. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:15, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

• OK--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:18, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

  @Sturmvogel 66 Done, I hope, including verification and page numbers addition for MacKenzie (which is one of the primary sources used). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)