Talk:1937 Liechtenstein spy affair

1937 Liechtenstein spy affair has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: January 10, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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GA Review

Passed. SilverTiger12 (talk) 20:35, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:1937 Liechtenstein spy affair/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: TheBritinator (talk · contribs) 16:32, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: SilverTiger12 (talk · contribs) 19:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note some amount of poorly-thought-out humor may be involved.

1. Well-written:

Why would Vogelsang expect this Birkel to forward a letter on his behalf? Were they friends or something?
Hoop thoroughly investigated the authenticity of the letter and prepared to order a house search, all of which in private in order to not alert Vogelsang. The latter half of this needs rephrasing. "All of which in private" makes sense only after rereading it three times.
The next day Hoop sent a policeman to summon Vogelsang to be arrested the same day. This makes sense, but it is still clunky in phrasing, namely "to be arrested the same day." It is also confusing in relation to the last sentence of the preceding paragraph- are these two different days or one same day? Much clarification needed.
...of which all 11 members belonging to the Progressive Citizens' Party did so. As in there's only 11 members of the Landtag total or all 11 from that party approved?
The mention of sedition sounds more like an accusation than a criticism.
Who got Burckhardt involved?

2. Verifiable: Well it's all cited and Earwig shows a whopping 1.0% similarity to other sources.

3. Broad: I don't walk away with any major questions, so yeah.

4. Neutral: It presents the claims of both sides, which is the best you can do when the actual Nazis are (tangentially) involved.

5. Stable: The very short edit history makes this an easy pass.

6. Illustrated: There is one image, which is public domain, but what's the LHD mentioned in the caption?

Some things need addressing but overall this is very close to Good Article. SilverTiger12 (talk) 19:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have hopefully improved the wording on the three points you brought up. As for the first, there is no mention of Birkel's motivations, I would wager that they either had some form of prior connection or that Vogelsang just expected him to do it as part of his duties, but I am only assuming. As for the last, there is no explicit mention of who got Burckhardt involved to my knowledge, but the claim that he was given partial and incorrect information may imply that he was influenced to, but again, only assuming. TheBritinator (talk) 20:09, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.