Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/SMS Zähringen/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Sarastro1 via FACBot (talk) 22:57, 19 January 2018 [1].


Nominator(s): Parsecboy (talk) 15:08, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is another in my series of German battleship articles. This article is part of the sub-series of articles that were written back in 2010 or so and then recently revised and expanded with new sources.Zähringen served for over 40 years in three different navies (from Imperial, Weimar, and Nazi Germany), but had a fairly uneventful career nonetheless. Thanks to all who take the time to review the article. Parsecboy (talk) 15:08, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Support from Indy beetle

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All of my concerns were addressed in the A-class review. I support this article's promotion to FA class. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:02, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments by Sturmvogel_66

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  • No DABs
  • No overlinking
  • Link rammed, main battery, knots, squadron, Baltic Sea, torpedo, submarine, bomber, scuttled (all in the lede)
    • Done
  • Add Kaiserlich Marine in parenthesis after German Imperial Navy in the lede
    • Done
  • Link secondary armament, Kattegat, blockade, Skaggerak,
    • Done
  • Hyphenate twin gun turrets
    • Done
  • Move the links for North Sea and Danzig to the first occurrence
    • Fixed
  • Bornholm's Danish, how could German ships return there?
    • Good point - reworded
  • When did IV Squadron become VII Squadron? Or is this a typo?
    • That's the VII Division, which was half of the VI Squadron - clarified in the text
  • neither mistakes were repeated when
  • A little light on images; can you find any more out there on the intarwebs?
    • There are a few out there floating around (wrecksite has a couple of nice ones), but no sources, unfortunately.
  • Add a link to the Commons category.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:58, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Iazyges

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Sources review

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Support from Vami

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Support from The ed17

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Great work. A few comments.

  • "... but by 28 August, the ship's crew ..." - which ship's crew? Did the squadron never make it to the cruiser?
  • "The German Army requested naval assistance for its campaign against Russia ..." - when did they ask for the assistance? Is there a link to that campaign?
  • Any plan to add something about "These experiences affected the conversion of Hessen, and neither mistake was repeated when that vessel was converted in the mid-1930s" to SMS Hessen? ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:02, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comment: One image has alt text, the others don't. I think it should be one or the other for consistency. But that isn't worth delaying promotion over. Sarastro (talk) 22:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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