Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tucker-class destroyer

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Tucker class destroyer edit

Promoted --Eurocopter (talk) 10:35, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator(s): Bellhalla (talk)

This article is about one of the classes of World War I "thousand tonner" destroyers of the United States Navy. The article has passed a GA review and I believe that it fulfills the A-Class requirements. — Bellhalla (talk) 19:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where's Friedman in the references? You have him cited, but there's no reference. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:27, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- My apologies for the oversight. It has been added now. — Bellhalla (talk) 18:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. All the submarines finished? – Joe N 16:25, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Good heavens, no! Just a temporary diversion… — Bellhalla (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Goodness. There are some left? ;) —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 07:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support with a few comments:
- Second sentence, second para, lead. Link to battle fleet for those who do not know what it is?
  - Edit: is there even a decent link for that? If not, oh well. (I'm assuming that Battle Fleet doesn't work here) —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 00:30, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - It looked to me that Battle Fleet is specifically about the 1922–1941 USN unit. Other than this ACR, battle fleet is not linked anywhere else; and battlefleet has only one link. Should there be a generic battle fleet/battlefleet article somewhere? — Bellhalla (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - Good question... —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 07:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        I've created and linked to wikt:battle fleet, which should help a bit. — Bellhalla (talk) 12:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Last sentence, second para, lead. What were previous destroyers' weights prior to the Cassin's? I know that some in the early 1900s were 250 t, so to 1000 t is a large jump—however, a casual reader won't know that.
  - Just looked at my copy of Conway's; it appears that the last pre-thousand tonner destroyer class were ~800 t (p. 122). —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 07:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - OK, a sentence added in the lead and also added and cited in the 'comparison' section. — Bellhalla (talk) 12:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- "The surviving members of the class had all returned to the United States by early 1919 and been decommissioned by June 1922. " - to me, this makes it sound like a majority of the class had sunk, but only one was.
  - I changed the sentence to start All five surviving members of the class had…. Does that read better?
    - Yes. —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 07:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~"The Sampsons were the only group originally equipped with anti-aircraft guns, a pair of 1-pounder (0.45 kg) guns [with a caliber of 37 mm/1.46 in].[11]" - why brackets?~~
  - I had followed a similar format in Yorktown-class gunboat where I was enumerating 1-, 3-, and 6-pounders with the calibers for each in brackets to try and avoid information overload in the text. Here, there's really not that problem, so I've eliminated the brackets. — Bellhalla (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~"All but Tucker were returned to the U.S. Navy in 1933; Tucker followed in 1934" - how about "All were returned to the U.S. Navy in 1933 with the exception of Tucker, which followed in 1934."~~
  - Yes, that does read better. — Bellhalla (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- "She was the first U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of U.S. Navy officers Jonathan Wainwright, his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, and his son, Jonathan Wainwright, Jr." - son of J. Wainwright or of R. Wainwright?
  - Reworded to be a little more clear. — Bellhalla (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~There seems to be rather wide spaces between each of the ship summaries. Is that just me?~~
  - I had used {{-}} between each section because some of the images overlapped into the next sections; I uploaded cropped versions of two images that alleviate the problem and have removed the {{-}} now. — Bellhalla (talk) 06:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Cheers Bellhalla! —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 23:37, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. — AustralianRupert (talk) 08:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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