Talk:SMS Wespe (1876)

SMS Wespe (1876) is currently a Warfare good article nominee. Nominated by Parsecboy (talk) at 20:46, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

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GA Review

Latest comment: 59 minutes ago5 comments2 people in discussion

This review is transcluded from Talk:SMS Wespe (1876)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Parsecboy (talk · contribs) 20:46, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 10:12, 5 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Happy to see more ships in the queue! I will review this shortly. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 10:12, 5 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Careful what you wish for - I have a couple dozen more ready (or close to it) but I didn't want to flood the queue ;) Parsecboy (talk) 10:59, 5 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Prelim

Article is stable
No duplicated links
Images are correctly licensed
Earwig reports copyvio unlikely

Lede and infobox

To avoid two sentences starting with "The ship", suggest "Wespe saw little active service"
Link commissioned
Is 14 September definitively the last time she was in service/decommissioned? Considering the possibility that she would be "in commission", or at least "in service", during her period in the Reserve Division?

Design

"Through the 1860s, the Federal Convention examined various proposals, with numbers of vessels ranging from eight to eighteen." Slightly confused by the context here - does this refer to how many ironclads the FC wanted to build, how many Wespes they wanted, or how many proposals there were in total?
"These were to be supported by larger numbers of small, armored gunboats." Assuming this is where the Wespe class comes in, would be good to have a word or two to confirm that this in particular was their purpose
"4-bladed screw propellers"
What kind of limit are we talking for the traverse?
Should it be "An armored deck"?

Service history

Link bow
Conway's says that the torpedo tubes were submerged?
"an additional 8.7 cm (3.4 in) L/24 built-up guns" Is this meant to be plural?
Does the literature discuss at all why Wespe was at most an occasional training ship for her entire career? Was she considered obsolete, not very good, etc?

References

References look good. AGF for print sources.
An interesting point that I would think good to include from Conway's is the intent to ground them on sandbanks
There's a diagram of Wespe here which you may prefer to the blurry image currently used

@Parsecboy: Hi, that's all I have for now! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 11:23, 5 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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