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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 21:04:16 5 May 2019 (UTC) [1].

List of torpedo cruisers of Italy

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Nominator(s): Parsecboy (talk) 20:01, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This list covers the torpedo cruisers built for the Italian Royal Navy in the 1870s-1890s - the ships had relatively uneventful careers (largely a result of the fact that they were built during a relatively peaceful period, and they were no longer front-line ships by the time Italy fought in the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War in the 1910s). I wrote the list last year and it passed a MILHIST A-class review in July (link here if you're interested). Thanks to all who take the time to review the list. Parsecboy (talk) 20:01, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Lirim.Z

  • All pictures need a year in the text
    • I've added years where they're generally known, but all but one are approximations and the rest aren't known.
  • The lead needs references
    • No it doesn't, it's all repeated in the body, where the material is cited.
  • Other than that I don't see any problems. I don't know much about torpedo cruisers, but I think this article is written great and understable for people who don't know much.--Lirim | Talk 02:55, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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  • "laid down in 1875, and was one of the first torpedo cruisers built by any navy" - source for that (it isn't mentioned anywhere in the body)...?
    • Good catch, added a line on her being one of the first torpedo cruisers to the body
  • In the Pietro Micca section, do the two refs right at the end support everything from "By the 1870s" onwards?
    • Yes
  • In the Tripoli section, do the two refs at the end of the first paragraph support everything in the entire paragraph?
    • Yes
  • In the Goito section, does the one ref at the end of the first paragraph support everything in the entire paragraph?
    • Yes
  • Did the Folgore class actually have no armour, or is the info simply not known?
    • Yes, no armor
  • In the Partenope section, does the one ref at the end of the first paragraph support everything in the entire paragraph?
    • Yes
  • In the Argodat section, my maths teachers always told me that a 0 should always be placed before the decimal point for a number below 1, so ".8" should be "0.8"
    • This may be a UK/US thing

Think that's it from me -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:23, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Chris. Parsecboy (talk) 13:44, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments by Sturmvogel_66

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CommentsSupport by PM

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This list seems comprehensive and is in great shape. I have a few comments:

  • towards the end of the lead, could you add something about what type of ship replaced the torpedo cruisers in Italian service?
    • Good idea
  • is it worth listing the 4.7 in gun on Tripoli given it is mentioned on Confienza and the Partenopes?
    • Yes indeed
  • the service dates for Montebello don't match her article
    • Wonder what I was looking at
  • same for Monzambano, I think they might have been swapped somehow?
    • Must have been
  • the sources all appear reliable and of high quality and what you would expect to see for ships of this vintage, the formatting is up-to-scratch. No spotchecks done, as the nominator has a long history at FLC.

That's all I have. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:58, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks PM. Parsecboy (talk) 16:02, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Peacemaker67: - have I addressed your comments satisfactorily? Parsecboy (talk) 17:23, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the prompt, Nate. Supporting. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:09, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by CPA-5

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  • Is it me or are there a lot of imperial/US units who are primary units in the article? Oughtn't metric units be the primary?
    • I don't see why - was Italy on the metric system at the time? That the armor thicknesses are measured in obviously imperial units and not metric (for at least the first several designs - which is to say, a half-inch or three-quarter inch thickness is more obvious than 13 or 19mm, which seem rather arbitrary), which suggests the ships were designed with imperial units. Of course, it could be a rounding issue in the source, but then I don't know that I want to reverse convert from the rounded number without knowing what the actual figures are.
  • I see - but that still leaves the question of accuracy and rounding to be addressed. I would hazard a guess that the decks weren't exactly half an inch (i.e., 12.7mm), and that Gardiner simply rounded the figures, but that raises the question of how much and in what direction did he do the rounding? Parsecboy (talk) 11:50, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • No, and the problem is, whatever sources the author used for the ships presumably were in metric, so they'd have had to have converted them to imperial. If we then convert back to metric from the rounded conversions, we'll likely end up playing the telephone game. Parsecboy (talk) 15:49, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is indeed a problem. But I think it's not bad to convert the units to metric. Yes I know this can be described as the telephone game but that doesn't mean we should let them like they are in imperial units. I think we can convert the units and add a note which stated that the real numbers are probably unkown and are probably rounded. That's, I think the best solution I came up right now. Of course this is just an opinion of mine. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 13:22, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Shouldn't the ISBNs have hyphens?
    • You can do it either way, but whatever way you choose should be standardized.

That's anything from me. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 20:01, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks CPA. Parsecboy (talk) 17:23, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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