Neil Ritchie is currently a Warfare good article nominee. Nominated by Hawkeye7 (discuss) at 17:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC) An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it), and can be added to the review page, but the decision whether or not to list the article as a good article should be left to the first reviewer. Short description: British Army officer

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There's a picture of Neil Ritchie which can be uploaded to the commons here. See here for an example of how. Oberiko 15:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ritchie had the bad luck to hold his highest command during the earliest phases of the war, when British fortunes were at their lowest ebb. The Eighth Army, in North Africa, were the only British land force engaging the Germans anywhere in the world.

Do we really need the second sentence? How does it add information, or, for that matter, even support the statement in the first statement? Bazuz (talk) 19:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Rewriting article to differentiate between where our editorial voice is claiming objective fact, and where we let Mead speak. CapnZapp (talk) 14:19, 14 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The second picture has, as its caption, 'a group of officers....', with four names being mentioned, there are five people shown.

RASAM (talk) 14:02, 24 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Neil Ritchie/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 12:49, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'll take a look at this shortly - if only he'd agreed to write memoirs! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 12:49, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Prelim

• No duplicated links
• Images correctly licensed
• Article is stable
• Earwig reports copyvio possible only because a blogspot yoinked the lede in 2021

Busy period of work coming up, I doubt I'll get to this until next week. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 22:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]