Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

Nominator(s): PizzaKing13 (talk)

This is my third A-class nomination and my first biography nomination. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was El Salvador's longest serving president, being in office from 1931–1934 and 1935–1944. He rose to power after a coup d'état that established El Salvador's 48-year-long military dictatorship that lasted until 1979. Due to the duration of his presidency, the things he did as president, and the impact he left on El Salvador's history, MHM has had a lot written about him. While he is at least somewhat known in El Salvador, as far as I can see he is not at all known outside of Latin America. I have the goal of making the article of every Salvadoran president as good as it can possibly be (I'm a long ways from achieving that at the moment), and so I want to try to get this article to A-class since I personally believe it stands the best chance out of any president's article of reaching this assessment. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 05:43, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Soure review

Hi PizzaKing13, my apologies first that this review has been vacant for 4 months now. I meant to review this when it was nominated, but had not been able to find the time. I am now beginning with a source review, and I hope this review can be closed within a month. Congratulations on writing such a good article, thanks for your patience with the project, and sorry for the delays. Here goes the source review:

Link to Robert Elgie (academic), John Beverley (Latin Americanist), Dermot Keogh?

Done

Add the location of publication for Bethell 1998, Berk et al 2018, as done for all the other sources?

I listed the locations I could find for the sources that didn't have any. Those that still don't have a location didn't have one mentioned at JSTOR, WorldCat, etc.

Remove the “Incorporated” from the publisher name of Bosch 1999?

Done

Add the translated title and language for La Pensa Grafica 1994 Also, link to San Salvador?

Done

How reliable as sources are Lo Que Somos and Diario Co Latino? All the other sources have been published by reliable publishers.

Diario Co Latino is a historic and reputable Salvadoran newspaper (it's even mentioned in the article as being censored by MHM). Idk what Lo Que Somos is; it looks like an activist website. I removed the source.

Add the language for Dalton 2014?

Fixed, it was sent to en instead of es

I will do the spot checks and image review soon, and the prose review at the end. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 14:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the checks. I honestly forgot I put this up for A class assessment lol. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 20:45, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The source review is a pass. I will do the image and prose reviews next, and the spot checks at the end. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 12:00, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Hawkeye7

Disappointed that this has taken so long to get reviews. Apologies for that.

"bachelor's degree" - any idea what degree or major?

Source does not specify, only that he "received the title of Bachelor"

How do you earn a El Salvadorian Army rank in Guatamala?

Think of it as that era's equivalent of Cold War-era Latin American countries sending officers to receive training/education at the School of the Americas.

"promoted Martínez to the rank of general" In what grade?

In the Salvadoran Army at the time, the only general rank was "General". See page Haggerty 1990 "El Salvador: A Country Study" page 214, and if you could somehow access it, Bosch 1999 "The Salvadoran Officer Corps and the Final Offensive of 1981" page 6. The modern distinction the army has between brigadier general and divisional general I believe is a late civil war or post-civil war change (1979–1992).

Link sub-lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, captain major (what is that?), lieutenant colonel, colonel

Linked. Not sure what a captain major is, but that's the rank he was promoted to. (Spanish: Capitán Mayor). The only similar thing I could find is the Portuguese rank of Captain Major.

"Upon assuming office, Martínez's government assumed control over the country's economy in an attempt to mitigate the situation, that ultimately resulted in Araujo's overthrow." Nothing unusual about the government assuming control of the economy, but what "situation" are we talking about? Remove the comma. Comma placement is a problem in this article.

Specific "economic situation"

"The "Martínez Doctrine" was temporarily suspended in December 1941 during World War II in order for El Salvador to benefit from the Lend-Lease Act, that was promoted by the United States.[91]" Move this down to the World War II section

Moved

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:26, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the time to review this! PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 00:42, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

Hi PizzaKing13, please excuse me for the delay in my review. Here is the image review:

Images 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 need US licenses.
Add Military Museum of El Salvador as the source for image 3?
Image 4 needs a global tag, I would suggest PD-old-70.
Suggest adding the FoP-ElSalvador tag for image 15.
The alt texts are great!

That's all on the image review. I will do the prose review and spot checks once the above issues are resolved. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 14:58, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Matarisvan: Thanks for the image review. That should all be addressed now. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 15:18, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@PizzaKing13, the image review is a pass then. I will post the prose review by end of day. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 09:19, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prose review

PizzaKing13, I did the prose review, and I can support the article. I just need to do the spot checks, which I will do tomorrow or the day after. Then you will need only one more support for the article to be promoted. I would suggest posting on the WPMH talk page to get the final review. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 04:37, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]