Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
After adding significantly to the article I'd like a peer review for two reasons:
- I don't think the article is start class any more
- to see if the self reference to Wikipedia is appropriate.
And any other suggested improvements, of course. Thanks.--J Clear 17:25, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Meh, this could still use quite a bit of improvement. In particular:
- There's no historical context. If possible, some information on the creation of the DANFS would be very useful; why did the Navy decide to publish it, who wrote it, etc.
- Any images of the books themselves? Or screenshots of the online versions?
- There's a lot of uncited commentary and statistics (e.g. "Something on the order of a few hundred entries out of the thousands contain something along these lines, though to varying degrees.", "the quality is generally good, although errors still occur throughout.", etc.).
- I would condense the lead down to two paragraphs and move the bulk of the material on the contents of the DANFS down into a section in the body of the article.
- More details on how entries are structured would be nice.
As far as the self-reference is concerned, it's a bit unexpected, but I'm not overly disturbed by it; perhaps others will feel differently. In any case, it needs to be cited with an example of an article using that label. Kirill Lokshin 02:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)