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Battle of Chalons

I wrote the original draft of this article a couple of years ago with more of an intent to avoid copyright problems. While it's been a solid article (if not FAC material), there were some points that bothered me because they needed verification. A recent dispute with an anon editor who insisted on putting some implausible & unverifiable statistics finally forced me to do the necessary research to address my concerns -- & led me to correct some parts that I didn't realize were wrong. Is the article now strong enough to consider nominating for FAC? -- llywrch 02:41, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not bad. I like the use of footnotes. The lead could use some expantion, 5 lines with a battlebox is rather small. It could definetly do with a picture - or a pictures - if not of a battle itself, then of involved personalities. Plus a map of the battle. Please compare with Battle of Alesia - another Roman battle which is FA now and try to adapat anything you can from that article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 11:29, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I expected that someone would bring up the issue of pictures for this article. My experience in looking for relevant illustrations has been that there are surprisingly few -- if any -- for this famous engagement. I have one of Aetius (I believe it's covered by Fair Use) that I could upload to EN, but I haven't come across any for Theodorid, nor any for the battle itself -- Fair Use, PD or GPL. Am I looking in the wrong places? (Consider this a general request for help!) -- llywrch 18:05, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The older the topic, the less graphical sources there are (you did try Google Images, right?). One thing to do is to follow all ilinks from the main body and see if any subarticles have useful pictures. Sometimes, a general picture - like that of typical Roman legionnare or German barbarian, for example - may be used to a good effect. And do try to obtain or create a map. For a battle, it is almost a 'must'. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 10:28, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)