== José de San Martín a GA? == 

 Hi . It is a long time since we last "spoke". Thanks very much you for your comments on this article that you left on my talkpage, on Wednesday. I did almost no editing on Tuesday and none on Wednesday, so it has taken me sometime to catch up, hence the delay in responding to you. 

 Over nearly nine days, I spent the best part of three days reading that article from end to end, at least twice and I made a conscientious effort to read every word, plus checking the references, etc. Both times, I read the Lede (or WP:Lead) last. I must have been "tired" and missed those problems that you have found in the Lede. So, thanks for highlighting them. They are easy to fix, I'll probably get round to it after Christmas, as I have another three reviews currently under way. You are welcome to fix it yourself if you are so inclined. 

 You make the comment "I couldn't find anywhere any description of the man", well yes that is true. As point of interest: one of my second great grandfathers was born in about 1830, he joined the British army and fought in the Crimean war: and I am unable to answer any of these questions of yours (Was he dark-haired? Blond? Tall? Fat? Joyful? Intelligent? Stupid? Rude?) in respect of him, or his wife (Irish, I believe) or two of his children who were born and died in the United States of the Ionian Islands. His eldest son fought in the Second Boer War and I have his army record, so I can tell you the colour of his eyes, his chest measurement, his height and his complexion, but I don't know whether he was Fat, Joyful, Intelligent, Stupid, Rude, neither do I have a picture of him. I do have a picture of his wife, my great grandmother, who died in 1928, but I have no idea whether she was Joyful, Intelligent, Stupid, or Rude. 

 We do know exactly what an artist thought San Martín looked like in 1829 or 1827, since there is a painting of him. Here is a copy  You will also find it in the article on the top right hand side of the article. Based on that, we can rule out blond and fat. He does not appear to look stupid or rude. 

 I find your comments Well, the article should be at most B, certainly not a GA, unless the standards are very low nowadays... somewhat offensive. Since September, 2008 I've reviewed 467 new WP:GANs including three of your nominations: Legacy of Pedro II of Brazil, Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil and Early life of Pedro II of Brazil, in 2010, perhaps more, all of which I passed; and I also reviewed 46 articles that had been made a GA prior to 26 August 2007 (details can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force/Sweeps). Many of the GAs passed prior to 2007 would not be regarded as GA-material under the current rules: I failed about 15 percent of what I reviewed in Sweeps, other reviewers failed perhaps 40 percent. 

 If you still consider that José de San Martín is only B-class and my reviewing standards are low then refer that article to WP:GAR. Likewise, I suggest that you also refer your three articles back to WP:GAR. I will caution you that of the (more than) 500) GANs that I've reviewed only two, so far, have been referred back to WP:GAR. One that I failed twice was also failed at GAR and one that I passed at GAN was subsequently failed, so even if you do get José de San Martín failed, it will only be the second review of mine to be overturned, so I shan't lose any sleep over it. I doubt also whether your two articles would be down graded to B's. I understand that Early life of Pedro II of Brazil was for WP:FAC, I see that you never submitted it.