Talk:Blockhaus d'Éperlecques/GA1

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Reviewer: Lemonade51 (talk · contribs) 23:19, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I will be working my way through the article and adding any queries where I see fit. Feel free to make corrections, or correct me as I go along.

Lead

"English: Bunker of Éperlecques", my understanding is if you anglify a foreign language, it alters the spelling. So surely it becomes 'Eperlecques', the 'accent aigu' is redundant?

Nope; check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names#Diacritics. "Wikipedia normally retains these special characters, except where there is a well-established English spelling that replaces them with English standard letters." There isn't a well-established English spelling for Éperlecques, which is a pretty obscure place historically, so the accent is retained. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Kraftwerk Nord West (KNW) (Powerplant Northwest)", adjacent sets of parentheses are discouraged, per MOS:BRACKETS. I would suggest using a square bracket for 'Powerplant Northwest'.

I've tweaked this, see what you think. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

'Monument Historique', should this be in caps?

I assume you don't mean the whole thing should be in caps? I've de-capitalised the first letters of the two words. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Background

"Speer gave orders that two bunkers were to be constructed by the Organisation Todt construction group to a "special fortification standard" (Sonderbaustärke) requiring a steel-reinforced concrete ceiling 5 metres (16 ft) thick and walls 3.5 metres (11 ft) thick.", place a comma between '(Sonderbaustärke)' and 'requiring'.

Done. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Design and location

"It was given the codename of Kraftwerk Nord West (KNW) (Northwest Power Plant).", bracket concern here. Perhaps you can fit "Northwest Power Plant" into the prose instead of it being in a bracket?

Tweaked, again see what you think. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"At nearby Saint-Omer there", bracket between 'Saint-Omer' and 'there'

Done. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discovery, destruction and abandonment

"...construction at Watten (wryly codenamed Concrete Lump) "for deception purposes", and the...", again perhaps you could remove the brackets and fit it into the prose, unless you feel it's just distracting information.

I've worked it into the prose. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"the liquid-oxygen generators", liquid oxygen does not need to be hyphenated.

Fixed. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Air raids on the Watten site

The table needs rowscopes on the first row in order to comply with MOS:DTT.

I assume you mean column scopes? I've added them for the column headers, but as there are no row headers no rowscopes are needed. Prioryman (talk)

References

Ref 45 is dead, consider replacing it.

I'll see if I can get hold of a hard copy reference, since the link was to an online version of a hard copy magazine. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The ref is still dead. I have found an archive of the website, if you wish to use it. -- Lemonade51 (talk) 12:38, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, thanks! I've replaced the dead link with the archive link you found. I think that covers the last of the outstanding issues? Prioryman (talk) 22:08, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why does Ref 4 have a different date format to the rest?

No idea, I assume someone else added it. I've made it consistent, anyway. Prioryman (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Noticed YouTube video has been removed by the user.

Regrettable, but it wasn't essential anyway - I've removed the link. Prioryman (talk) 21:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

~~On hold.~~ Shall pass, very interesting read and great prose. -- Lemonade51 (talk) 22:12, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]