Talk:Canopus-class battleship/GA3

GA Review

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Reviewer: Courcelles (talk · contribs) 01:39, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Not seeing a lot in the two prior GA reviews as relevant, and both were by a different nominator.

• Maybe the lede should say which country's "Royal Navy" they operated for. (Yes, the link tells you, but for those without a general knowledge of history or the popups extension)
  • Good idea
• "The class comprised Canopus, the lead ship, and Glory, HMS Albion, Ocean, Goliath, and Vengeance." Is there a reason only the Albion is prefaced with HMS here?
  • Nope, it was an error with the template, good catch.
• Canopus-class or Canopus class? Can't see any rhyme or reason for when the hyphen is used and when it isn't. Same with sentences like "Fuji-class battleships then being built in Britain to the Board of Admiralty. These ships, which were based on the British Royal Sovereign class,".
  • When "class" is the noun, there's no hyphen, but when "Canopus class" is a compound adjective that describes "battleship" (or any alternative) it gets the hyphen. If you're curious, this was settled here back in 2012.
• "The three variants were submitted to the Admiralty in early October; on the 9th, the Board sent its reply to White," Which happened on the ninth, the submission or the reply?
  • The reply
• " For example, by 1904, Goliath's crew had increased to 737 and Albion had a crew of 752, which included an admiral's staff." What's sourcing this?
  • Burt, p. 172, the same footnote at the end of the para
• " used the newer BIV mounts"... "The BVI mounts eliminated". Check you didn't transpose letters here?
  • Good catch - I thought I was paying attention to that, too!
• Sourcing looks pretty solid
• Images all check out.

• Damned good work. Just a few nitpicks and I'll be happy to pass it. Courcelles (talk) 02:15, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Thanks Courcelles! Parsecboy (talk) 14:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
    • Alright, this passes. Looking forward to the inevitable GTC! Courcelles (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
      • We've got a way to go, but Sturmvogel and I are chopping away at the list! Parsecboy (talk) 19:09, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
        • I was thinking that this completes the class, but, wow, you're going to have a huge GT there eventually. Courcelles (talk) 19:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
          • Yeah, I've stopped doing class GTs, since it ultimately ends up in creating more work for the FT/GT delegates. I think Sturm is planning on splitting them into dreadnought and pre-dreadnought topics (that's how he has the templates set up in his sandbox), so that will keep them on the "large, but not too large" side of things. I think it's more a function of list size than anything else - a List of battleships of the Royal Navy would be at least twice the size of the German one, which is already fairly large. Parsecboy (talk) 19:21, 23 January 2018 (UTC)