Talk:CSS General Polk

GA Review

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Nominator: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 00:57, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 08:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I will take a look at this shortly. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 08:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Prelim

• Ironclad is a duplicated link
  • Resolved
• Image correctly licensed - are there any directly of Polk?
  • Not that I've seen. File:USS Cayuga at Forts Jackson and St. Philip.jpg was in the article before I rewrote it, but that can't be General Polk because Polk wasn't at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, which that image portrays.
• Article is stable
• Earwig reports copyvio unlikely

Lede and infobox

• Suggest adding in the lede that she was a Sidewheel steamer
  • Done
• Suggest "launched" instead of "Built" in 1852, as being launched in the year does not guarantee she was also built then
  • Done
• "Commissioned into military service on October 22, and was sent to" needs a rejig
  • Fixed
• Give the year for October 22
  • Done
• Give the exact date for Lucas Bend
  • Done
• "June 26, 1862" repeated year
  • Removed
• While looking for images of General Polk I saw mention that she was a timberclad?
  • This book makes the claim (also that she was armed with Parrott rifles) but neither of these claims are found in the more specialized sources so I am doubtful.

Service history

• Do we know when the civilian collisions occurred, or have further detail about them? Would be nice to expand the service prior to the ACW
  • There might be something in Way's Packet Directory. I've left a note at WT:SHIPS to see if anyone has a copy; if not I will try to get out to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield on a weekend where they supposedly have a copy in the library. If not, I can try to dredge through old newspaper through the Wikipedia library
• "slowed by the weather" what kind of weather?
  • Done
• Move the link for Ship launching to the first launch rather than second
  • Done
• "On November 10, General Polk, along with two other Confederate gunboats" Is this date correct? Doesn't work chronologically
  • Should be November 30. Fixed.
• "two other Confederate gunboats" suggests General Polk was also termed a gunboat, but this isn't mentioned
  • I've introduced Polk as a gunboat earlier in the article
• Surely there's more information on Lucas Bend? What did Polk do in the battle, what was the result? Was this related to the earlier following of ships to Fort Holt?
  • I've expanded a little on what was going on here; this wasn't much of a battle at all. The Confederates bumped into the ironclads while on a scouting mission, there was a brief exchange of gunfire, and the Confederates withdrew.
• Our article on Lucas Bend gives a completely different composition of the CS forces (and names Polk a cottonclad?)
  • Apparently Smith's book on the Union timberclads gives a different Confederate composition; I've scratched the list of Confederate ships entirely. Neither DANFS, Chatelain, nor Canney refer to General Polk as a cottonclad; I suspect the Lucas Bend article is in error.
• "The damage caused the ship to have to be withdrawn from the fighting" Is this the action mentioned in the this source which has General Polk being beached?
• "New Orleans was threatened" by what?
• Why was the April 12 attack abortive? What happened?
• "two Union ships moved up the Yazoo River" Assume these were warships. Do we know anything more?
• Where was General Polk burned exactly?

Reference

• References look good. AGF for print sources.

@Hog Farm: Hi, that's all I have for now. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 14:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC)