Talk:Irvin McDowell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Ohio Portal Irvin McDowell is part of WikiProject Ohio, which collaborates on Ohio-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to current discussions.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
Please rate this article, and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Suggested article edit guidelines: To help us prioritise our workload, and in readiness for Wikipedia:1.0, we need to assess our articles for Quality. If this article is Unassessed, please assess it. See the Article Classification for instructions. If you disagree with a rating, you can change it or discuss it at Article Classification. After assessing this article's quality, please make sure it to add it to the Lists at Article Classification, following the grading scheme detailed there.

	This article is part of WikiProject California, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated task forces: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion met Grammar: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met Associated task forces (general topics): Military biography task force Associated task forces (nations and regions): United States military history task force Associated task forces (periods and conflicts): American Civil War task force

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Military work group.

[edit] Structure

I gave this article the necessary infobox, filled it out some, and put in some sectional names. Other names for them might help streamlining this page, and more info. about hie early and late life would be nice. And some of the recent edits to this article has been to change the spelling of his first name, from Irvin to Irwin and back again. In everything I've ever read about the general it is correctly spelled IRVIN.

Kresock (talk) 21:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bio update

The date of death for McDowell was stated as 10 May, 1885; however two of my books list it as 4 May of that year and I updated the article for it with refs. Kresock (talk) 02:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)