Talk:SMS Kaiser (1874)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Starstriker7 - public^(talk) 07:51, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

I'll take on this review. --Starstriker7 - public^(talk) 07:51, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Criterion 1

Lead

• What's the difference between a lead ship and a flagship?
  • A lead ship is the first ship in a class - I've added the link. Parsecboy (talk) 10:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Construction

• Would it make sense to wikilink "keel"?
  • Sure would. Parsecboy (talk) 10:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Service history

• Can/should "I Squadron" be wikilinked?
  • There aren't any unit articles on the German navy at the moment, unfortunately, so it'd have to be a redlink. The furthest I've gotten is High Seas Fleet (which was created in 1907) eventually I'll get to writing articles on I Battle Squadron, II Battle Squadron, etc., which trace their origins to the period Kaiser was active. Parsecboy (talk) 10:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Service in East Asia

• I'd wikilink the Kiautschou Bay concession later in the sentence to [[to seize Kiautschou by force]], but I won't hold you to doing this.
• "Kaiser left Shanghai, headed toward Kiautschou" --> Kaiser left Shanghai and headed towards Kiautschou.
• The prose of the section says that the ship was broken up in "Harburg"; the infobox says "Hamburg".
  • Fixed the first two as per your suggestion - turns out Harburg is in Hamburg, so I changed both to Harburg. Parsecboy (talk) 10:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Criterion 2

Looks good.

Criterion 3

• Can you find the name of the German consul who was murdered in Salonika?
  • I found this, which states that his name was Mr. Abbott, but that appears to be as much as I can find. Most accounts simply refer to him as the German consul (it seems the French consul was murdered as well, by the way). I'll dig a little more and see if I can get a first name.

Parsecboy (talk) 10:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

• • • And I found it: his name was Henry Abbott - we don't appear to have an article on him, however. Parsecboy (talk) 10:32, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Criterion 4

The article is neutral in tone, and gives no undue weight to any particular point of view (none are really presented in the article anyways).

Criterion 5

The article's edit history checks out, and it all looks stable.

Criterion 6

All images check out.

Overall comments

Nice work, Parsecboy. :) Mostly, I just have questions to clarify my ignorance on the subject of warships. There are also a couple of wikilinking and continuity issues, but nothing big at all. I'll put this on hold. It was actually quite a pleasure to read! --Starstriker7 - public^(talk) 08:06, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks for reviewing the article. I think I've taken care of everything you found. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 10:32, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Looks like you did. I will pass this article in a sec. --Starstriker7 - public^(talk) 16:37, 15 July 2011 (UTC)