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Taking a look at this now, since I've been meaning to have an excuse to take "The Battle for Spain" off my bookshelf and actually read it. Nice job, FWIW, especially on the referencing. One thing that jumps out at me immediately, though: the lede needs some serious work. Maybe not a huge concern for GAN vs. FAC, but it reads kind of incoherently at the moment - things are happening! This person did something! This other thing happened! The lede is the only section that many viewers will read, and it should strive to "tell a story," even if it leaves out side facts. It's not really well connected at the moment. The third & fourth paragraphs mention a lot of specific names being arrested, or surrendering, or plotting, who then aren't mentioned again in the lede. I'd be in favor of cutting out as much of these details as practicable, and focusing on just a few key movers & shakers.
A few other notes before doing a proper review:
A summary or conclusion as to how and why the war ended seems to be missing? Can someone explain either the omission or the end of the war? - preferably both. 99.4.120.135 (talk) 20:14, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
have added a table showing who controlled provincial capitals during the coup.
I thought it might be useful to include a compact, concise and easy-to-view information showing dynamics of the coup across the peninsula. I was considering few maps showing situation as of every day, but this would be probably space-consuming and still not quite transparent. Hence, I have finally settled for a table.
I have added colors intended to make the table even more clear. I have colored the Nationalists in blue and the Republicans in red, which seems rather intuitive to me, given colors traditionally used in graphs to denote right-wing and left-wing groupings, especially that they sort of correspond with local Spanish ambience (“camisas azules”, “rojos”). The problem is that the map in this entry for an odd reason uses exactly the opposite convention (Nationalist zone in reddish, Republican zone in blue), so a map and a table using two opposite color patterns perhaps look confusing. Hope this is still acceptable. If otherwise it would be probably easier to change colors in the table.
--Hh1718 (talk) 07:54, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
The colors on the map do not correlate to the colors in the legend. FatBear1 (talk) 20:31, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
The text currently reads, "Many of the soldiers acted as mercenaries" to describe the Army of Africa. What does that mean? Were the soldiers mercenaries or soldiers? CsikosLo (talk) 16:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
Correcting erroneous lead. It stated: “The coup itself was organised for 17 July 1936, although it started the following day in Spanish Morocco”. This sentence contained 2 factual errors: 1) the coup was supposed to begin on July 18, not on July 17; 2) it started in Morocco not on July 18 (“the following day” after July 17) but on July 17. Changing to “The coup itself was organised for 18 July 1936, although it started the previous day in Spanish Morocco”. rgds, --89.64.66.143 (talk) 09:34, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
This article says that José Antonio Primo de Rivera was released from prison in March 1936 to restrict the Falange (with a footnote for Preston).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Primo_de_Rivera says that he was ARRESTED in March 1936, and then 9 weeks later transferred to another prison in Alicante.
Which is right? 2A00:23C7:AD8:4B01:8D7C:3E86:1E96:4582 (talk) 15:27, 27 October 2023 (UTC)