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Good articleSM U-21 (Germany) has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
August 15, 2014Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 29, 2014.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the sinking of the British scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder (pictured) by the German U-boat SM U-21 in 1914 was the first time a warship was sunk by a modern submarine?

Potato farming

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Some accounts maintain that she was scuttled by Hersing, who took up potato farming after the war.

True enough — see Lowell Thomas's Raiders of the Deep (1928) — but a non sequitur that strikes me as slightly amusing in context. Sca (talk) 15:49, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ENGVAR

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Per this old revision, the article was written in British English. Under MOS:RETAIN, unless there was a proper reason to change, it still should be. Any thoughts? --John (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Almost 24 hours have passed and nobody has commented. Does anybody object if we restore BrEng as per RETAIN? --John (talk) 17:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I went ahead and did that. --John (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I think there are too many. Some of these vessels of around 1000 tonnes GRT are never going to be notable enough for an article. --John (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

They probably ought to be redirects to the relevant shipwreck lists. I can do that later if you like, but I'll be busy for the next couple of hours. Parsecboy (talk) 22:00, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Makes sense. No hurry. --John (talk) 22:07, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
They should all be done now. Parsecboy (talk) 01:32, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]