Talk:NMS Regele Ferdinand/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: L293D (talk · contribs) 19:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Very nice article - will be doing this in the next couple days. L293D (☎ • ✎) 19:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Lead

• Add a couple sentences about the laying down, launching, and commissioning after opening sentence.
  • That's not summarizing and would be redundant to the infobox and main body.
    • Any random FA (e.g. SMS Emden) will have a few sentences about that. IMHO, its helpful for readers to get an idea of the time period the boat was built in in the first sentences.
      • That is a necessity, I agree, but I think that that's too much detail in the lede and redundant to the main body, but Parsecboy disagrees. As an alternative I offer my FA, Japanese battleship Asahi, which tells the reader which decade the ship was built in, but only in a summary fashion by not providing exact dates.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:47, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
        • I disagree, but that's a personal preference so Ill leave it to you. L293D (☎ • ✎) 18:52, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Background and design

• Add {{Main Article}} or {{See also}} to Regele Ferdinand-class destroyer
  • Why? It's linked in the lede
• and the fire-control system was from Germany - remove "was".
  • Good idea
• The Regele Ferdinand-class ships had an overall length of 101.9 metres (334 ft 4 in), had a beam of 9.6 metres - remove second had.
• and a mean draught of - what does "mean" do here?
  • Average.
• Merge sentence 2 and 3 in second para.
  • You want me to merge the sentence about the displacement and the one about the crew size together?
• Link 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 at the end of 4th para.
  • Good catch.

Construction and Career

• named for King Ferdinand I of Romania, - named after King Ferdinand
• laid down by Pattison[7] in June 1927 at their Naples, Italy, shipyard. - reword, reads confusingly.
• The ship was assigned to the Destroyer Squadron - was there only one destroyer squadron in Romania?
  • Yep, only four destroyers total after these two were delivered.
• Link Constanța.
  • It is on first use.
• Link Crimean Offensive somewhere - that's what the boat did for most of its war service.
  • Linked in the lede in the sentence that starts "In early 1944..."
• The phrase "the Romanians" comes up in two consecutive sentences in para 2 - change one to "Romanian Navy" or something similar.
  • Good idea.
• On the nights of 22/23 and 24/25 June, Regele Ferdinand, Regina Maria and the flotilla leader Mărășești covered the laying of defensive minefields off Odessa. - remove "flotilla leader", already defined in preceding para.
  • That's the sister of Marasti, so not defined.
• Adolf Hitler suspended the evacuation - might want to specify the city being evacuated.
  • Not just the city until later. Initially it was throughout the Crimea.
• when she was discarded - to my knowledge, discarded is not a nautical term. Stricken might do better.
  • Perhaps, but discarded is what the official Romanian website translation used

Thanks for the review. See if my changes are satisfactory.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:43, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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