Template talk:Did you know/HMS Doterel (1880)

HMS Doterel (1880)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know, unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted

• ... that on 26 April 1861 HMS Doterel (pictured) exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?

• Reviewed: exempt

Created by Ryan Vesey (talk), Shem1805 (talk). Self nom at 03:39, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Please add a comment and signature (or just a signature if endorsing) after each aspect you have reviewed:
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• Length, format, content rules: I added the comma. Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Source: Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Interest: Excellent. Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Image suitability, if applicable: Great pity so small; great image, still worth using. Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

The image is 600 × 373 (it's only small here because the display size is set to 100 x 100). Shem (talk) 15:23, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Shem, yeah, implicit in my comment is an underlying complaint about the main-page rules, which IMO unreasonable constrict the side of TFA and DYK images. Tony (talk)

03:57, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry Tony - with you now. Shem (talk) 19:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

• ALT hooks, if proposed:

Article

• Length: Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Vintage: Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Sourcing (V, RS, BLP): Looks reliable. Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Neutrality: Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Plagiarism/close paraphrasing: Checks out ... London Ill. News said 143 dead, but I didn't look at other sources. Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Copyvio: Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting: Good. I fixed a few things (the x to a ×, but do you need them anyway? Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments/discussion: Nice work indeed! Ready to go. Tony (talk) 10:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

The ×'s seem to be common practice in article's about ships. Here I randomly pulled up a ship article and it used them. Here is another example I found. Ryan Vesey Review me! 12:59, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

I've changed "the HMS" to "HMS"; this is a solecism, the definite article is superfluous in front of "HMS", since it reads in full "the Her Majesty's Ship". Otherwise, very happy with the proposal. Shem (talk) 15:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Ryan, thanks, good to know. This looks ready. Tony (talk) 03:53, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

• Moved to Template:Did you know/Queue/_ on ____ by ____.