Talk:Battle of Waterloo

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Britain the sole world superpower until 1914?

After 1870 Britain was surpassed by both Germany and the United States. 2A00:23C5:C419:D301:2CE3:F155:34D2:62B6 (talk) 17:13, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

I've removed what was in the lead. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 21:49, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

I would say that Germany was on par with the UK however the United States would not be a superpower until the end of the second world war William J Kennington (talk) 21:31, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Article review

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. This article is also over 13,000 words, and I think the article is considered WP:TOOBIG and some of the information needs to be moved to other articles or removed as too much detail. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 01:00, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

Battle of Waterloo

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.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:27, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

This article contains several uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. At over 13,000 words, the article is WP:TOOBIG and too WP:DETAIL. This includes too many quotes and block quotes (which should be summarised instead) and an excessively long lead. Z1720 (talk) 14:31, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

• Comment. Agree that the article should be shortened and more info moved into child articles. That said do not agree with comment on quotes - this is a stylistic preference, not a GA criterion. There are good articles with no quotes, there are good articles with lots of quotes. It's not so quote-heavy as to be a quote / react farm, for sure. SnowFire (talk) 16:49, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

• With an article that is already so large, I think there are many quotes whose inclusion should be reconsidered. I do not think the article needs two different accounts of Hougoumont, an un-introduced quote at the top of "Charge of the British heavy cavalry" and a block quote for "The blows of the sabres on the cuirasses sounded like braziers at work." Instead, I think it's more effective to paraphrase the information. Z1720 (talk) 18:37, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

• Delist while some editors have made edits to fix up the article, there are still a significant amount of uncited text, too many quotes, and excessive detail that it would be better if it was delisted and brought back to GAN when ready. Z1720 (talk) 22:53, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

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.

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Wellington now stood up in Copenhagen's stirrups and waved his hat in the air to signal a general advance. His army rushed forward from the lines and threw themselves upon the retreating French.

Do the cited sources tell us if anyone could see him, and whether it had an impact on th attack? Battlefields were clouded by gunsmoke, and the field was wide. Kjalarr (talk) 21:03, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Map glitch

The map of the Hundred Days is cropped but the cropped out Saint Helena "8" marker appears in text on an Apple iPad in the Wikipedia iPadOS app.

Sswonk (talk) 13:06, 24 October 2026 (UTC)