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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Sarastro1 via FACBot (talk) 17:17, 9 April 2017 [1].


Nominator(s): Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

St Vincent had a typical career for a WWI-era British dreadnought. A few shells fired during the Battle of Jutland mid-way through the war and that was all the combat she experienced. Aside from a few other unsuccessful attempts to intercept German ships, her war consisted of monotonous training in the North Sea. She was reduced to reserve after the war and was scrapped in the early 1920s. I've trimmed some of the extraneous details since the MilHist A-class review (which included an image review) last month and I believe that it meets the FA-class criteria. As usual, I'm looking for infelicitous prose, AmEnglish usage and any jargon that needs linking or explaining.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support on prose per my standard disclaimer. These are my edits. A solid entry in the series. Lots of attention to detail. - Dank (push to talk) 13:27, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I reviewed the article at A-class and my concerns were addressed there. Great work as usual. Parsecboy (talk) 13:50, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support- All images are correctly licensed.

Support Very nicely done. Just a handful:

  • "with a slight increase in size, armour and more powerful guns, " I'm not sure this works. "Increase" is plainly meant to apply to size and to armour, and grammatically it should apply to "guns", but obviously it isn't meant to.
  • See how it reads now.
  • "The first armour-piercing, capped..." somewhere in these sentences I'd make it clearer you are talking about damage to Moltke.
  • I dunno. I'd think that the close succession between "hitting her twice" and "The first hit" would make it pretty clear that the damage was inflicted on Möltke.

Source review - spotchecks not done

Support - Well done, nomination has my support --TheSandDoctor (talk) 21:01, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

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Closing comment: I think between here and A-Class, this has had a solid review and there is a clear consensus to promote. Sarastro1 (talk) 17:17, 9 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.