Talk:M-class cruiser

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Latest comment: 12 years ago by Parsecboy in topic GA Review
Good articleM-class cruiser has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starM-class cruiser is part of the Light cruisers of Germany series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 5, 2012Good article nomineeListed
March 16, 2014Good topic candidatePromoted
Current status: Good article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:M class cruiser/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Czarkoff (talk · contribs) 14:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

Status

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GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose):   b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):  
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references):   b (citations to reliable sources):   c (OR):  
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects):   b (focused):  
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:  
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:  
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):   b (appropriate use with suitable captions):  
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:  

Discussion

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Regarding the failing points:

  1. 2(a): The article is almost entirely based on one source (12/18 references). Though I notice that most of the paragraphs have two citation, I would like to receive a comment on why the "Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9." book received that much weight.
    Groner's book is based entirely on official German Navy records, what survived the war, at least. For ships like this class that were never completed, it's usually the case that a variety of referencing is impossible. See for instance Sovetsky Soyuz class battleship, a Featured Article on a Soviet battleship design that relies heavily on one source. FWIW, the entry in Conway's is more limited than what Groner has, though where the two overlap there are no disagreements. Parsecboy (talk) 14:56, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
  2. 2(a): I would recommend to move the two references to Navweaps.com to the References section and provide the footnotes the same way as it is done with books.
    Web sources aren't typically placed in the References section - see again the Sovetsky Soyuz article for an example.
    OK, may be you could reduce the number columns? In a current form the web references are unnecessarily torn, IMHO. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 15:11, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
    Done. Parsecboy (talk) 15:53, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
  3. 6(a), 6(b): is it possible to provide at least some images? Though it isn't obligatory, it would be of a benefit for the article. Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 14:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
    It would be nice, but there's nothing I've been able to track down. There's probably a design blueprint somewhere in the Bundesarchiv, but I can't exactly go get it :) Parsecboy (talk) 14:56, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply