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Ambrose Burnside was one of the Warfare good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 30, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
October 12, 2007	Good article reassessment	Kept
July 21, 2020	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 26, 2014.
Current status: Delisted good article

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Ironic comment

General Burnside wins the prize for the most ironic man to ever exist.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/joeblade/irony.jpg

It's not irony, the term "sideburns" comes from his name.

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Ambrose Burnside/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Concurr wiht B-ranking. Article needs persondata, but may otherwise be qualified for a GA-nomination? I'm especially glad to see such good references. -Duribald 17:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 17:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 07:32, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Ambrose Burnside/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

A rather lacking article on a rather important figure, poor sourcing, doesn't seem comprehensive, outstanding maintenance tags. I'll drop a note in the relevant places, hopefully there's interest in improving this. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 18:38, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also missing a number of citations. I found then old 2007 GA review in the article history, and it was very lacking compared to modern standards. Hog Farm _Bacon 19:51, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Over a week has gone by, and nobody has volunteered to resolve the fairly substantial issues present. De-listing. Of course, if the issues raised here are resolved, any editor can re-nominate the article at WP:GAN. Best wishes, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sideburns

Burnside's facial hair is referred to as "unusual" in the article, but was it really? Following the citation (Goolrick, p. 29) from the article writes

"[Burnside] smiled frequently, remembered names, looked after the welfare Of his troops, won friends with ease, took orders well and conveyed to the world an air of sturdy competence. His extravagant cheek whiskers became known throughout the army by a play upon his name — sideburns."

The citation conveys their spectacle, sure, but was unusual at the time as the Wikipedia article directs? The German emperor William I had similar facial hair around Burnside's time, which suggests to me that it was not "unusual".

Goolrick, William K., and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Rebels Resurgent: Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1985. ISBN 0-8094-4748-7. Slorps (talk) 20:25, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]