Talk:Canopus-class battleship/GA3

GA Review

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Reviewer: Courcelles (talk · contribs) 01:39, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not seeing a lot in the two prior GA reviews as relevant, and both were by a different nominator.

Maybe the lede should say which country's "Royal Navy" they operated for. (Yes, the link tells you, but for those without a general knowledge of history or the popups extension)
- Good idea
"The class comprised Canopus, the lead ship, and Glory, HMS Albion, Ocean, Goliath, and Vengeance." Is there a reason only the Albion is prefaced with HMS here?
- Nope, it was an error with the template, good catch.
Canopus-class or Canopus class? Can't see any rhyme or reason for when the hyphen is used and when it isn't. Same with sentences like "Fuji-class battleships then being built in Britain to the Board of Admiralty. These ships, which were based on the British Royal Sovereign class,".
- When "class" is the noun, there's no hyphen, but when "Canopus class" is a compound adjective that describes "battleship" (or any alternative) it gets the hyphen. If you're curious, this was settled here back in 2012.
"The three variants were submitted to the Admiralty in early October; on the 9th, the Board sent its reply to White," Which happened on the ninth, the submission or the reply?
- The reply
" For example, by 1904, Goliath's crew had increased to 737 and Albion had a crew of 752, which included an admiral's staff." What's sourcing this?
- Burt, p. 172, the same footnote at the end of the para
" used the newer BIV mounts"... "The BVI mounts eliminated". Check you didn't transpose letters here?
- Good catch - I thought I was paying attention to that, too!
Sourcing looks pretty solid
Images all check out.

Damned good work. Just a few nitpicks and I'll be happy to pass it. Courcelles (talk) 02:15, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks Courcelles! Parsecboy (talk) 14:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Alright, this passes. Looking forward to the inevitable GTC! Courcelles (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - We've got a way to go, but Sturmvogel and I are chopping away at the list! Parsecboy (talk) 19:09, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      - I was thinking that this completes the class, but, wow, you're going to have a huge GT there eventually. Courcelles (talk) 19:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        Yeah, I've stopped doing class GTs, since it ultimately ends up in creating more work for the FT/GT delegates. I think Sturm is planning on splitting them into dreadnought and pre-dreadnought topics (that's how he has the templates set up in his sandbox), so that will keep them on the "large, but not too large" side of things. I think it's more a function of list size than anything else - a List of battleships of the Royal Navy would be at least twice the size of the German one, which is already fairly large. Parsecboy (talk) 19:21, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]