Talk:HMS Pylades (1854)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 10:21, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this shortly. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 10:21, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Prelim

• British Empire, beam, and Kilowatt are duplicated links
  • Removed
• Article is stable
• Image correctly licensed
• Earwig reports copyvio unlikely

Lede and infobox

• "First-class" doesn't need a capital
  • Removed.
• Ibid "Admirals"
  • Removed.
• You're linking the wrong Michael de Courcy; this one died thirty years before Pylades was launched
  • Well noted. This one also seems not have achieved the rank of Admiral so I have amended the text.
• "led to the"
  • Added.
• Flag in class operators section is unnecessary
  • Removed.
• "1267" needs a comma
  • Added. And to other instances of similar numbers.
• Length between perpendiculars differs between main text and infobox
  • Corrected.

Design and development

• Link Royal Navy at first mention of "navy"
  • Added.
• "Pylades-class" no need for hyphen
  • Removed.
• bm needs linking
  • Added.
• You repeat "The engines", but there's only one?
  • Corrected and reworded to avoid the repeat.
• Link broadside
  • Added.
• Be consistent with numbers - you use "Ten" but "20"
  • Corrected per MOS:NUMERAL.

Construction and career

• at Sheerness Dockyard
  • Changed.
• for machinery
  • Changed.
• "after disappearing 18 days beforehand" this sounds interesting, do we have any more context?
  • Unfortunately the report has limited detail.
• "was the last Royal Navy to be deployed" missing word
  • Added.
• Pylades serving on three distinct stations in an eight month period is a little strange. Do we know what she was doing/why she was moving?
  • The sources do not seem to say. Reading between the lines it seems that the vessel required repair more frequently.
• "with much the copper" missing word
  • Added.
• "on 13 January" missing year
  • Added.
• "the vessel paid" sp
  • Corrected.
• I know nothing about the Chesapeake affair, but considering you describe Pylades as having a "critical role" in stopping "the altercation"(?) and as such preventing the UK from joining the ACW, I think more than two sentences could be devoted to expanding on this
  • The source does not go into a lot of detail but I have added some context that I hope helps the reader. The sentence is linked to the wikipedia article that does give more information on the affair (although it does not currently mention the corvette's role) so I hope that suffices.
• "Buckey Point" sp
  • Amended.

References

• BWAS 1793–1817 isn't a 2014 publication, nor does it include any mention of Pylades. Assume you mean Winfield, Rif (2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.
  • You are exactly right. Fixed.

@Simongraham: Hi, that's all I have for now. Will await your replies. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:48, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

• @Pickersgill-Cunliffe: Thank you for this thorough review. I have made the amends I can. simongraham (talk) 23:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

• @Simongraham: Happy with your changes. Passing this article as satisfying the GA criteria. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 13:39, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

• @Pickersgill-Cunliffe: Thank you very much. I hope you found it as interesting as I did to discover the stories connected with this ship. Seeing your edits also prompted me that I need to update the table in the Contest. I plan to add this one to November's list when it becomes available. simongraham (talk) 00:28, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.