Talk:HMS Princess Royal (1911)/GA1

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Reviewer: Courcelles (talk) 04:52, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I'll see how far I get on this tonight; I'll try to have an initial review of anything that jumps out at me here before I head off to bed. Courcelles (talk) 04:52, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

"The times used in this article are in UTC, which is one hour ahead of CET, which is often used in German works.". I thought, and the Central European Time article seems to confirm, that this was the other way around; that CET is one hour ahead of UTC? Courcelles (talk) 04:56, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. You're absolutely correct.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 12:32, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• Images, dabs, and external links are all fine. The map image lacks alt text, but since hat was stripped out of the FA guidelines that's fine.

I'm a little concerned the lead uses "she" so many times it becomes a tad confusing, especially at "During the Battle of Dogger Bank she scored only a few hits, although one was the hit that crippled the German armoured cruiser Blücher so that she was caught and sunk by the concentrated fire of the British battlecruisers." where the pronoun is used both to refer to the British and German vessels in the same sentence.

• "Princess Royal mounted eight BL 13.5-inch (343 mm) Mk V guns in four twin hydraulically powered BII turrets" BII? I don't see such an acronym introduced previously in the article.

That's actually just the designation of the turret, but I've deleted it.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 12:32, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay, didn't get that far; got distracted over at AfC. Will pick up tomorrow. Courcelles (talk) 05:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

sorry this fell through the cracks- I printed off the article to go over at night, and have been falling asleep as soon as I went to bed. This article is amazingly comprehensive, to the point I'm having a hard time finding fault with it. That said, here's what I have

• One disambig link, in "The German objective was to bombard Sunderland on the 19th,"
  • Fixed.
• "and an attempt to sell her to Chile in mid-1920 was unsuccessful." is there a citation for this?
  • Added.
• "She was built without any anti-aircraft guns, but a single QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss gun on a HA MkIc mounting was fitted from October 1914 to December 1916" Why did it take ~27 months to install one gun? Courcelles (talk) 13:38, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
  • No, that's the time that she carried that gun, not the time required for installation.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:43, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

That was the "your reviewer's idea of sailing is a week on the Voyager of the Seas" mistake there. All-in-all, this article passes, so I'll go do the paperwork. Courcelles (talk) 02:05, 1 April 2010 (UTC)