Talk:George B. McClellan
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Featured article review needed
Wizardman This Featured article was promoted in 2007, and has fallen out of FA standards. There is a good deal of uncited text, External links and Further reading should be cleaned up or incorporated into the article, and a MOS review is needed. Unless someone is willing/able to bring this article to standard, it should be submitted to Featured article review. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
- I'll FAR it sometime this weekend. It fell short of FA standards some time ago, I won't be able to fix it, and the other main writer retired some time ago. Wizardman 22:40, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
- There also seem to be some serious problems with NPOV. From reading the lead and the legacy section as well as a few other bits and pieces, the article is running the rather minority viewpoint that McClellan was a successful general who was wrongly dismissed. Virtually everything I've read on McClellan has judged he was a total failure as a battlefield commander and Lincoln should have sacked him much sooner. Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
- So would you also believe that everyone swallows 8 spiders in their sleep because it's an oft-repeated myth? GustavaKomurov (talk) 05:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
Hurontown, Michigan
Is street in Hurontown, Michigan named after him? --74.72.155.252 (talk) 22:44, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Should the short description be changed?
I don't know much about short descriptions, but is it not true that McClellan was most well known for being a Union general in the American Civil War, and shouldn't the description reflect that? Nonoesimposible (talk) 11:48, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Combing the Archive
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 8 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Rithvikn (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Rithvikn (talk) 23:30, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Did he actually say that?
This article and the one on the 1864 presidential election both attritube to McClellan the quote of "I didn't lose but merely failed to win". Did he actually say that? No source is provided. Seems to me like just a meme from the popular OverSimplified videos on the civil war. EberhardtVoller (talk) 21:35, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, it's only in this article. It's still an unsourced claim, however. EberhardtVoller (talk) 21:36, 23 April 2025 (UTC)