Talk:Charles Edward Magoon

message: This article has much merit, a good eye for detail and a great use of sources. Though I believe there are some prose problems. A few examples.
*he literally wrote the book on the governance of United States's new territories following the Spanish-American War Needs clarification - what book and how did he literally write it
*In 1906, Cuba was in the process of being re-controlled by the United States after the democratically elected President Tomás Estrada Palma attempted to remain in power after the conclusion of his term, which resulted in a revolt and caused the US military to step in again. long sentence, two "afters", and I'm not sure about "in the process of being re-controlled by the United States". That could do with a re-word. 
Regarding Cuba, though Magoon made some fairly conservative but necessary changes, he was hated by the Cuban elite, Cuban writers were consistently disparaging, one calling him a "buzzard devouring the treasury of Cuba". So I think this needs to be added. I may be able to help with a few details, particuarly the Cuba section which is good, but could do with a bit more colour. 
I recommend to re-read the article outloud and try to improve the flow and syntax. Otherwise a great base, and with some steady tweaking should reach good article status without too much strain.   --Zleitzen 00:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have good sources on the Cuban opinion of him, can you point me at some? Most of my sources have an unabashedly pro-US bias, as is typical of any American media attention he received at the time. I've tried to stick to facts and quotes, to get around the bias, but you know how American colonialism is... JRP 01:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi JRP. I do as it happens, and will add them when I have a moment. For some reason he really pissed Cubans off, though there is little evidence that he did anything corrupt or damaging.--Zleitzen 01:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made some major textual changes, including cleaning up the two areas which you cited. How does it look to you now? JRP 06:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work Jrp. I should get round to adding some sources and info myself in the near future.--Zleitzen 07:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review

message: Two things: What is a "prep" program? What "prominent law firm"? --Milkbreath 16:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life 

message: If I may make a suggestion, Charles E. Chapman's A History of the Cuban Republic (1927) has a worthwhile treatment of Magoon's administration.  He cites the hostile Cuban sources candidly, but also gives what I believe is a well-supported defense of Magoon, particularly against the charge that he recklessly exhausted the Cuban treasury.  Specifically, in this instance, Chapman argues that every bit of the cash on hand in the treasury was already "encumbered," in accounting terms, i.e. it was either owed to someone and should have been paid, or it had in fact already been appropriated by the Cuban Congress under Estrada Palma for some very necessary purposes, such as road building, bridge building, relief from hurricane damage, etc.  Without this side of the picture being presented more fully, the article as it stands is, IMO, actually biased against Magoon.
Terry J. Carter (talk) 17:41, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
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message: This article was promoted in 2007 and has never been reviewed since. I have doubts if the article represents "a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature" on the subject, since practically every source used in the article is a contemporary news piece. There's no lack of scholarly literature out there that relates to Magoon and none of it is currently on the article:
*Lockmiller, David (1969). Magoon in Cuba: A History of the Second Intervention, 1906–1909. 
*Mellander, Gustavo A.; Nelly Maldonado Mellander (1999). Charles Edward Magoon: The Panama Years. 
*Mellander, Gustavo A. (1971). The United States in Panamanian Politics: The Intriguing Formative Years. 
*Millet, Allan Reed. (1968). The politics of intervention: the military occupation of Cuba, 1906-1909. - (I needed 2 minutes on Google Scholar to find a fully-available-326-pages pdf of this via Ohio State University. There are 405 matches to Magoon on this book alone);
*Díaz-Briquets, S; Pérez-López, J. (2006). Corruption in Cuba: Castro and beyond. - Seak-peek;
*Hernández, JM. (2010). Cuba and the United States: Intervention and Militarism, 1868-1933.
*Suchlicki, J. (2002). Cuba: from Columbus to Castro and beyond - Sneak-peek;
These are just examples; I'm not that knowledgeable about US interventions, US diplomacy, Cuba or Panama, but these seem significant omissions in an FA. At the moment, the article fails criteria 1. c) of FAs. RetiredDuke (talk) 17:22, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FA in need of review