Talk:Device Forts/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 06:19, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 06:19, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

• No DABs, external links good.
• Images appropriately licensed.
• Isle of Wight, including at the only partially finished Sandown Castle Awkward

Fixed. Hchc2009 (talk) 08:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

• historian Marcus Merrimandescribes typo

Fixed. Hchc2009 (talk) 08:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

• historian Dr Duffy who, Christopher Duffy?

Unfortunately, the source just said Dr Duffy, in the way that academics do when it is really obvious to them who they must be talking about! I haven't been able to pin down which one, but the Christopher Duffy would be way too young. Hchc2009 (talk) 08:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC) ...although, his very earliest siege works would fit. Let's stick with him. Hchc2009 (talk)#

• Reconstruction of a life amongst the This caption makes little sense to me.

Fixed. Hchc2009 (talk) 08:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

• Down to 18th-19th centuries. Very well done, thus far.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:29, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Cheers! Hchc2009 (talk) 08:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

• good location to position waiting interception vessels awkward
• Portland was readopted by army as a garrison base in 1869 to fears of an invasion, fix this
• New, quick-firing guns were installed at Hurst to enable them to engage the enemy. Them who? Rephrase.
• By the start of the 20th century, developments in guns and armour had made most of the Device Forts that remained simply too small for hosting modern weapons systems and the supporting logistics facilities such as munitions stores. Rephrase and maybe split it in half.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:57, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Changes made. Hchc2009 (talk) 11:41, 2 December 2016 (UTC)