Talk:Raid on Constanța/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 06:40, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

I will take this one on, comments to follow in due course. Zawed (talk) 06:40, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Infobox

• Only 1 minelayer mentioned, I assume on the basis that it claimed two aircraft shot down. Do the sources indicate if the other two minelayers mentioned in the background were present and using AA guns?
  • No, my sources only cover the minelaying before the war began for Regele Carol I and Aurora.
• Horia Macellariu is stated here as Romanian commander but not mentioned in body of article
  • Macellariu was the Chief of Staff for the Royal Romanian Navy when the battle happened and I'm not sure that he actually had any role in it at all, so I'm going to delete him from the infobox.

Lead

• No issues identified

Background

• I know it is mentioned in the lead, but I think it needs to be stated that Operation Barbarossa is the codename for the invasion to prep the reader for the first usage of the codename. Eg. "the scheduled date for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June 1941"

Bombardment

• "and surviving Soviet bombers also joined in the attack." The usage of "surviving" strikes me as being unclear here. Those surviving the Axis attacks on Bessarabia of 22 June, or those surviving the Russian counterattack that afternoon? Later there is reference to bombers taking off from airfields in the Crimea. It is probably best to just delete the term.

Bibliography

• Put the two Yakubov refs in date order (oldest first)

Other stuff

• No DAB links
• No dupe links
• External links check out OK
• Images look to have appropriate tags (although I was surprised to discover a) Somalia has no copyright laws and b) that the Somali Post Office would slap a picture of a Romanian minelayer on a stamp!)

Overall, this looks in good shape for promotion, just a few minor niggles (and reading about Romanian war efforts makes for a change!). Cheers, Zawed (talk) 07:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

• I gather that a lot of smaller countries will do this sort of thing to entice collectors to buy their stamps, though I'm astonished that anyone would bother to do a Romanian warship. Talk about obscure! Thanks for reviewing this and see if my changes are acceptable.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:07, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

• I have looked at the changes made to the article and they look good. I am satisfied that it meets the GA criteria: it is stable, well written, covers the topic well and is appropriately illustrated and referenced. Passing as GA now. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 08:19, 26 February 2019 (UTC)