Talk:Battle of Caldera Bay/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 21:12, 22 October 2011 (UTC) GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   When giving dates in DMY format, no commas are used. What does this mean: front and rear port torpedoes. Between stern and stem (bow) means that the torpedo hit somewhere. Rephrase. This is awkward: The battle impacted the remainder of the Chilean Civil War How about using affected instead of impacted? This needs to be reworded and clarified: which failed due to the fact that she retreated Reword it to get rid of "due to the fact" and I don't understand how the ship retreated. Are you using British or American English? "armoured" I've made a number of copyedits; see if they work for you.

   Since the Congressional rebellion controlled all of the current ships Rebellions don't control ships; reword it the rebels or faction or somesuch. ; with it arrived several transports How about rephrasing it to something like "; escorting several..." So the ship had torpedo tubes on each side that faced both for and aft? The front torpedo hit but failed Needs a comma after hit.

   B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:

   Fix capitalization in Forbes and Hervey. Add place of publication to Forbes. Add OCLC # to Forbes and Hervey. Sorry, I'd missed that Wilson needs an OCLC #.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:44, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   Provide metric conversion for English units, including the size of the hole.

   B. Focused:

   Link to armoured cruiser, destroyer, flagship, ironclad, Blanco Encalada and Almirante Condell. If no article yet exists, that's OK. Link to Copiapo, Quinteros Bay. This is redundant and doesn't really make sense: Torpedoes became heavily relied upon after the Battle of Caldera Bay, for example, soon after the raid on Blanco Encalada, her sister, the Almirante Cochrane, was attacked by a torpedo boat, but retreated before any torpedoes were fired. Don't really think that Fiske's patent is really relevant to this article.

   Link to Laird Bros, i.e. Cammel Laird. Delete this as redundant: Soon after the raid on Blanco Encalada, her sister, the Almirante Cochrane, was spotted by a torpedo boat, but the torpedo boat retreated before she engaged.

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

   The image of Almirante Lynch lacks a source. If you want to use it, copy it over to en.wikipedia and add a non-free use license.

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

   Your sources are rather limited. You should check out H.W. Wilson, Ironclads in Action; Robert L. Scheina, Latin America: A Naval History, 1810-1987. I believe that the former book is on Google, not sure about the other one.

I've gone through all of the mos fixes, I'll skim through the books later today. Buggie111 (talk) 13:48, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Ummm, Strum? You watching this? Buggie111 (talk) 15:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I think everything is done. You may want to check over it, though. Buggie111 (talk) 15:25, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Done. Buggie111 (talk) 20:12, 26 November 2011 (UTC)