Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Operation Sportpalast/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Hog Farm via FACBot (talk) 15 November 2021 [1].


Nominator(s): Nick-D (talk) 01:11, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article covers the only occasion the famous German battleship Tirpitz was used to attack Allied shipping during World War II. On 6 March 1942 she was dispatched to attack two of the Allied Arctic Convoys off Norway. The British learned of her sailing through code breaking, leading to a cat and mouse chase in appalling weather. An attack against the battleship by British carrier aircraft failed on 9 March due to bad tactics, bad aircraft and a bit of bad luck, and she returned to her base on 13 March. Only one Allied merchant ship was sunk.

The article is the latest of a series I've brought to FAC on attacks against the Tirpitz. It was assessed as a GA in early August, and passed an A-class review a couple of weeks ago. I have since developed the article further, including by drawing on extra sources, with this burst of editing being aided by a COVID lockdown in my city which has left me with lots of spare time! I am now hopeful that the FA criteria are met. Thank you in advance for your comments. Nick-D (talk) 01:11, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Comments by Wehwalt

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  • It might be good to state the general locality where the operation took place in the lead paragraph.
More soon.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:04, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, am traveling and time not my own.
  • " Tromsö" This redirects to "Tromsø". Which is preferable? Note you use the latter on second use (with repeated link).
  • "Admiral Commanding Battleships, Vice-Admiral Otto Ciliax, assumed command of this battle group" Is "Admiral Commanding Battleship" a formal title? If so, should "The" proceed it?
  • " 12 pm on 5 March" would it be better to say "12 noon on 5 March"?
  • "During the afternoon of 7 March the Admiralty warned PQ 12 that German ships may be operating in its vicinity." Should "may" be "might"? This may be engvar as I see you use similar usages elsewhere.
  • Probably more one of my quirks than any particular English variant (I work in an industry where emphatic language in written documents is actively discouraged). Tweaked to 'might' as I agree it's the better word. Nick-D (talk) 09:19, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Footnote 4: Should Bismarck be italicised?
That's it.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:33, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Wehwalt: Many thanks for these comments. Nick-D (talk) 09:19, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Wehwalt (talk) 14:23, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Iazyges

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Source review - pass

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Taking this up for a source review also. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 16:32, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Locations
  • Kennedy, Ludovic (1979) currently Boston, put into "Boston, Massachusetts (presumably).
  • Zetterling, Niklas; Tamelander, Michael (2009) change to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (presumably)
  • London and NYC are both good as mononyms, may wish to change Oxford to Oxford, Oxfordshire, but it and Cambridge are also generally accepted mononyms.
IDs
  • Dimbleby, Jonathan (2015) I only see the 978-0-241-97210-6 ISBN listed for one of the 10 listed WorldCat entries for the 2015 edition, double-check (if you own the book) that this ISBN is correct, most of the 2015 editions use 9780241186602 per WorldCat.
  • Roskill, Stephen W. (1956) per WorldCat it looks like the listed OCLC of 258695345 is for a 1957 edition; all of the 1956 editions have different OCLC's, but the one with the most coherent WorldCat page is 633635983; I'm unable to find the 258695345 OCLC in the link, so suggest changing the OCLC to 633635983. If you have a paper copy of the 258695345 check the date, and if it is 1956, disregard this as a failure of WorldCat.
Comments

Support from TRM

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That takes me to "Battle". More to come. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 10:57, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, happy to support in light of your responses. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 22:23, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Nick-D (talk) 03:30, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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