Talk:MV Star of Malta

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Cwmhiraeth in topic Did you know? nomination

Did you know? nomination

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk07:15, 2 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Sources: "...the high point of the Camargo’s time on the high seas was the Fleischmann family’s round-the-world excursion." (Cincinnati Magazine), "In 1938 Camargo was sold to the President of the Dominican Republic, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo... In 1942 she was acquired by the US Navy... In 1952 she was sold to a Maltese, Paul M. Laferla, who operated her thrice weekly as the passenger ferry Star of Malta" (Times of Malta)

Created by Xwejnusgozo (talk). Self-nominated at 01:12, 18 January 2020 (UTC).Reply

  •  Hi Xwejnusgozo, review follows; article created 18 January; article exceeds minimum length; article is well written; sources are good on the whole, one query: what makes navsource.org a reliable source (I've not come across it before)? I've noticed some of the article text is a bit close to that of the sources, eg:
I appreciate there may be limited ways to phrase things in some instances but we need to minimise the similarities above where we can. Hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and backed up by the sources; a QPQ has been carried out - Dumelow (talk) 07:26, 18 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Dumelow: Thanks for the review! I see your point re close paraphrasing - some sentences did end up being too similar to the sources. I just rewrote some parts of the article to try to rectify the situation (Earwig's Copyvio Detector now stands at 16.7%). I also removed the "navsource.org" sources and replaced them by the definitely more reliable NHHC sources (except for the engines which aren't mentioned by the NHHC - for this I cited the Cincinnati Magazine source). Hope that all is well now - if there are any other issues please do let me know and I'll try my best to fix them. Xwejnusgozo (talk) 13:36, 18 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
  Great work Xwejnusgozo, all good now. I really enjoyed reviewing/reading this article, thanks - Dumelow (talk) 19:05, 18 January 2020 (UTC)Reply