Talk:CSS Beaufort

GA Review

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Reviewer: Premeditated Chaos (talk · contribs) 23:59, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Dibsing ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:59, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

• CSS Baltic has a footnote explaining CSS, not sure if you want to do one here
  • I don't know that that's necessary. The Baltic one was the result of a request by a single user, there hasn't really been indications otherwise that this is considered needed or even useful
• American Civil War. Launched at Wilmington, Delaware, is a bit of a blue sea, do we ned the ship launching link? (Alternately, you could reword to something like "Originally launched as Caledonia at Wilmington...bla bla" but I leave it to you)
  • Have rephrased along the lines of this
• "James Catchart Johnston" out of curiosity is he anyone that matters? It's ok if he isn't
  • Maybe? That's probably more of a Indy beetle question. Hog Farm _Talk 00:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
• Nice crisp lead, I get the feeling you've written one or two of these :P
  • Thanks! I don't get complements on leads often. Hog Farm _Talk 00:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
• "cannons the ships were armed with had a tendency to explode" they're supposed to do that, right?
• I assume, since I don't think you mention it, that we don't know the origin of Beaufort as a name
  • Either Beaufort, North Carolina or Beaufort, South Carolina most likely, but none of the sources I've seen say.
• Might be worth putting a date for Oregon Inlet, for the unwashed masses like me who don't reflexively know when particular engagements in the Civil War started :)
  • Added; I had meant to include the date but apparently forgot
• Not sure we need to repeat that Beaufort was in service to North Carolina, but I'm not sprinting to remove it if you think it's needed
  • Have removed that; I'd put that text in there before I had found the passage in Trotter that referenced the date of the transfer
• Caption for the Roanoke Island map could mention a creation date - I assume it's contemporary to the battle?
  • 1862, have added. The creator was probably a participant in the battle
• No other prose complaints through "North Carolina"
• "Hampton Roads" opens with "...James River Squadron. The squadron...", which is somewhat inharmonious. To avoid repeating squadron so soon, you could start the next sentence with "Led by the ironclad CSS Virginia, the squadron etc etc"
  • Have rephrased as suggested
• Under "End of war", the link to Battle of Chaffin's Farm is a bit of an Easter Egg
  • Have rephrased, hopefully this is resolved now
• Honestly, I'm struggling to even find anything to nitpick here, I have no other comments through the remainder of the prose
• Sourcing is reliable, spot checks on the books I could access (thanks, IA!) didn't come up with anything. No CV/close para concerns.
• Image use is appropriate and free (the pic of the Henry has a drily smug caption that I really enjoyed)

I'm going to pass this straight out; I can't see a reason not to. Treat the above comments as suggestions, since they really very much are nitpicks. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 09:12, 23 August 2023 (UTC)]

Thank you very much for the review! I found your comments quite helpful. Hog Farm _Talk 00:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 13:49, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship vs. ship action of the American Civil War? Source: Trotter, Ironclads and Columbiads, p. 20. and [1]. Trotter notes "the Beaufort achieved the signal honor of engaging in the first ship-to-ship naval battle of the Civil War", with the rest of the paragraph describing the action. The DANFS source lists the Union ship engaged,
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mimodactylus

Created by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 00:58, 24 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/CSS Beaufort; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Hog Farm: The article was promoted to GA yesterday (not created). Prose size is fine at 11 kB. All paragraphs in the body of the article have sources. I didn't spot any unreliable sources or biased claims. The hook is interesting and supported by the two sources together. No problems with copyright or plagiarism according to WP:EARWIG. QPQ Done. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:55, 24 August 2023 (UTC)